My dear daughter,
I try to live a simple life. I try to find joy in whatever I am doing, or try to bring joy to whatever I have to do. If I have to do something boring, I try to include something I enjoy along the way.
There is no point in wishing our lives would take a certain direction. If you want your life to be different, you have to make it different, provided you have the means.
No one can be happy or satisfied all the time, so focus and discipline are important. It is also pointless to only be satisfied with something we can rarely have or experience.
If the focus of your satisfaction is consumption goods, you are likely to be unhappy. Even if you manage to accumulate enough money to have any desirable amount of consumption goods.
You should strive to be satisfied in the place where you spend most of your quality time, like your home. Cultivating a reading habit will get you satisfied anywhere, as long as you can bring a book or an e-reader.
Every stage of our lives has qualities, you must have the wisdom and serenity to identify and enjoy them.
What is to be will be, whatever happens happens, and all that. To dwell in the past is a trap – we are prone to memory bias. To regard the past as better, as different from what it really was, is a trap. But we can all try to make something out of our futures, individually and collectively.
Love,
Dad
Aspergers Dad 