My laptop was stolen from my car on Friday 14th September (the picture is of a few of the shards of glass), so I haven't been able to post since then. Now I'm almost up and running with all the software paraphernalia in place so that I can start posting once more.
As ever, the cost of repairing my car (insured, apart from £150 excess) plus the loss of other stuff in the ruck sack containing the computer, and most painfully, the loss of my time is far, far higher than the thieves' gains.
Buddhists would have it that all this mayhem is the product of my desires - get rid of the desires and the problems and worry wouldn't exist. And we do spend a huge amount of time, in fact almost all of our time, on day-to-day things and materialism. This is what our governments want - it keeps the wheels turning and feeds economic growth.
What gives pause for thought is that it is the fall-out of economic growth that is destroying our planet - the bigger the desires, the bigger the problems.
In the meantime, we may moan about being too busy and too many hassles, but we must like behaving this way or surely we wouldn't do it so persistently?
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