What is evolution? A growth? A kind of advancement? This is what I'm trying to figure out on my journey through life. And evolving is what I believe I'm doing, in high gear compared to just ten years ago. This is mostly due to some (what I feel to be) truth and wisdom entering my life recently. Of course I've had forty years to see what the majority of the people feels is important to strive for in life, like owning a house or a shiny new car and all that monetary gain kind of stuff. Luckily, I've not been very well off for most of my time here so it's helped me to keep in mind what the truly important things in life are and it's NOT going to Disneyland. Yes, all my friends let me know how bad they felt for my two "fun" deprived children but I would even say back then that if I had the money to take them there, I still wouldn't because there's so much better ways to blow that much money. What a rebel I am, eh?
Since I have no problem understanding that evolution is not going to be found in money hoarding or shopping for shiny things of any sort, what's left? A spiritual growth is what I gather. Boy, doesn't that sound easy! To paraphrase the Buddha, it's much more difficult to conquer oneself than another. Well, here I go, wanna join me?