Dear Lukas:

You are very welcome. “I want to leave the consumption-oriented business, I think these things are harming our planet and our future livelihood… (I)  don’t want to be getting rich from selling things, I don’t want to add more to consumption, and I don’t want to exploit resources more…  not harming other living beings” (Nov 29, 2022)- I have been very concerned about climate change for a long time and I admire you for your quest to not add to production and consumption. I wish that more and more people in positions of political and financial power will let go of the short-sighted goal of immediate financial profit and focus on the long-term goal of survival and well-being of LIFE on earth.

Before you mentioned your valid concern above, you wrote back in May 24, 2022: “I am very fortunate and I have everything I need… I can’t manage to be happy with what I have – which is plenty“- there was (is?) something that you needed that you didn’t have. Something was missing from that plenty.

Nov 9: “My parents… are the real Buddhists without knowing, truly beautiful people“- their beauty did not shield you from experiencing long-term “Anger, jealousy and greed… feel(ing) underappreciated… (feeling that I) will always Stay behind and He will be better off always” back in May.

Somehow, in some ways, and for a very long time, you felt that you were underappreciated and always left behind, always left behind: lots of anger and frustration in that feeling of being left behind. I wonder what it’s about.

anita