Enjoy life.                                                                                                                                             
But what if you don’t. What if you don’t enjoy life or living.

A true taboo – social cultural personal.
Life is a gift. Life is precious. Life is what you make it. Live life. Live your full potential.

To say you don’t enjoy life sparks ideas in others of suicide, depression, upset, unhappiness, hopelessness, helplessness. Society fears it: not productive: not contributing: not playing the game.

For a moment imagine that this perspective was acceptable? What world would we be in? Are we nuanced or subtle enough to allow a not enjoying of life: rather than seeing it as the start of a slippery slope towards extinction / annihalation.

Or underneath is it a challenge to the power structure. If enough people said they didn’t enjoy life: this woud be a direct challenge to the system that wants the structure to remain the same. As we are fluid selves we slip in and out of states. Sometimes happy, sad, engaged, bored, fulifilled, … and on.

As always what is not permissible or allowed motivates us. Not enjoying life is not an end of life. But perhaps an acknowledgement of the pretence that life in the 21st Century is fit for purpose. Rather than a resource exploited by the few at the expense of the many.

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