Grow a Pear: Participate in this Ridiculous, Sacred World

By Mike Mair

I eat your fruit. You eat mine.

Are either of us nourshed? Really, though?

How can we really figure out what nourishment is?

How subjective is it? Is there an objective nourishment?

Are there fruits that we're hiding? From fear of how we'd be judged?

Is there an archaic societal effort to prevent certain fruits from being grown?

Do we, as trees, find our current state of affairs in the orchard a bit crooked? askew?

Is there something within us that just knows what's delicious and true, yet we hold it back?

Why do some of our fruits seem so inconsequential, yet we've sometimes poisoned people with them?

 

 

Enough about fruits.

Listen, when you don't talk all the time, and when you aren't distracted by life's entertainment buffets, you start to really listen, you start to actually observe. When you see, you discover. When you keep discovering, you keep expanding, in your personal state of awareness, as well as your 'map' of this world, this life.

Live this way for long enough, and you get quite keen on the subtlety, the nuance, as well as the bigger picture.

 

I want to share. I want to talk to you. I want to take you on this internal quest. I'll be your guide, you just do the walking.

It's scary, it's ridiculous, it's tough, and your worldview will inevitably start to crumble at the swiftness of your intake of these entries of words in this book.

But look, most of the time, easy isn't 'right,' and right isn't easy, but listen, I wrote this book because you can handle it.

Arguably, you NEED to handle it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Mair
• Release date: Jan 15, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224500741

Mike Mair

Mike Mair is the CEO of Diamond Sandwich Fulfillment Multiverse. https://linktr.ee/DiSaFuMu The entirety of his adult life has, and continues to be, a creative wellspring. His outlets include writing, music, teaching, cooking, exercise modalities, as well as masterminding ways to make life for us humans a more desirable endeavor. His approach is unconventional, and he aims to keep it that way. He sees the world in which we live from a fresh perspective, a world far overdue for upgrades. WE are the ones that we're waiting for permission from. We are the ones needed to ready, to fire, and then aim ourselves as we go.

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Get Real. Get True.

I feel that we, as a collective, are losing touch with the core of life, with what's really important. You can feel it, and you can see the patterns, if you try. What's important to you currently? A lot of things, I’d figure. Food, water, shelter, family, friends, money, entertainment, the latest products, convenience, news, politics, hitting a socioeconomic standard, and generally maintaining an image that makes you liked by others; so essentially, survival, and then fitting in with social norms. How important is the latter?

No argument with essentials. The physical essentials are needed to stay alive, and the people and places you love and cherish – well they can be considered your personal essentials. But, with so much focus on the other less-essential things, we end up giving less care to our essentials. Maybe you're thinking you don't do many things that are frivolous, superficial, vane, trivial, egoic, quantity-over-quality, etc. but let's be real, if someone strapped a camera to your head, the words and actions would speak for themselves. No shaming at all, but c’mon let’s be real here.

You may already know where I'm going with this, something like but what's REALLY important, people? yea, yea, but let me get to the core of it: This convenient, showy, image-focused society can't sustain itself, in multiple ways, for multiple reasons. Life is becoming less real and more superficial every day. More things to watch, more things to buy, more things to fill our minds to talk about at the next get-together, more ways that AI and other convenience-based companies can do more things for us. And to sustain that?... we need to do more work, get more money, do more keeping up with the Joneses, and more and more. It's burning our hearts out. And we’re burning out from the unimportant crap that we've been sold on. It’s all happening right before our eyes, at high-speed, in an ever-increasing fervor.

We're getting more overfed and under-nourished by the second, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Popular society’s marketed ideas have lead us to end up praising garbage... physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual garbage. And this can't go on forever. Something's gotta give. I'm never going to tell anyone what to do or what to think. I don't force anything onto anyone. I just speak of what I see. And what I see? People, distracted by the superficial, aimless due to little or no real North Star to guide them, sad, anxious, and irrational out of fear and confusion that this toxic standard of living has only exacerbated. This is a daily scene for living the way the common modern person lives; where nothing is completely satisfying, so we keep wanting more of what social norms are peddling (unhealthy food, toxic, addicting entertainment, and endless products to buy), and there’s no plan for us to stop consuming the norm, even though it is not designed to be nourishing in the first place. This distraction mill shouldn’t be standard, but it seems to be.

It doesn’t have to be this way. I, personally, find the NEED to stay simple, stay light, stay minimal, and feel what my heart, my intuition, wants to tell me. As a result, I can be content in simple environments, an unfurnished room with a notebook, or on a nature walk, or the company of one friend and 2 chairs. I contemplate, I feel, I journal, I revere life, and I keep learning from it. It’s not woo-woo new-age spiritual thinking; it’s an effort, it’s real, and it pays off. I consider this core respect for the heart of life as the most important endeavor. Passing it along is certainly a plus, too, as I’m going to make a habit of doing.

And look, I'm not better than you or anyone else, and I'm not competing with you or anyone. I just choose to live this way, and I see what I see. Maybe there's a feeling in you that knows that this society is not designed for the full-hearted individual. It's seemingly, in all honesty, designed by literal evil people who make billions by producing unhealthy products of all 5 senses, so that you end up fixated against, more numb to, and further distracted from... what is actually real and true in this life.

Let’s be real some more, you may feel too encumbered by life, or too anxious, or simply too callous, to face yourself and your true feelings. No shaming, at all! Because facing yourself and being real CERTAINLY is not on the main menu in modern popular society. You may not have even considered any of this as an option, but it is, and in my thousands of hours of minimalist, existentially-objective observations on life, I consider it as the best option. You become unencumbered by the unhealthy distractions, and enchanted by the simple joys of finding out how deep your own rabbit hole, your own heart, goes.

There’s nothing to do, per say. It’s more about getting real and true. Get real with your current life, your current priorities, and maybe, if you feel it’s right, get in contact with that unyielding piece of heaven, that internal sanctuary, that most call your spirit, or your soul, or your heart. It’s the only part that never stays in failure, never gives up, and keeps caring, and keeps going.

There's still time, but at the same time, this life is short, maybe shorter than we hope. We simply don’t know for sure.

Is prioritizing your inner sanctity and moving forward with intuitive courage something that you'd like to see on your head-mounted camera... the recording device that is, in truth, the legacy of your life?

We Want Your Apples

Let’s get right to talking about the juicy stuff. The best apples that we, as humankind, have ever produced and tasted. We’ll call them the golden apples. There are many golden apples in this world right now.

Electricity?

Plumbing?

Air, Land, and Water Vehicles?

Computers?

All other high-efficiency tools?

What about Music?

Painting?

Architecture?

Cuisine? 

Psychology?

Science?

Spiritual/Existential Wisdom?

All the other timelessly beautiful, masterful arts?

Remember all these?

People made these. We, the trees, produced these apples. The apples that have immensely aided and clarified our entire approach to reality. These, are the golden apples.

Think about this. A bushel or two of these golden apples, in our entire course of history, have essentially shaped the existential fabric of how we live now. And it’s still happening! People are still inventing. People are still producing these golden apples, for humanity to enjoy many generations into the future, and until someone produces an even greater apple in succession.

We perceive these creator/inventor people as rarities and anomalies. That does us no good, and it’s dis-empowering, in fact. Each person has this potential. Yes, you’ll have to spend a lot of time with your self and your ideas, and be brave enough to be perceived as a crazy person for a handful of years, but to have this massive impact? This multi-generational legacy? This reality-shifting status? It’s definitely worth it. I’m slowly going for it, how about you?

The cool part is that the invention, the creation, the golden apple, is merely a byproduct of who you are. You, as the tree, can produce many if you’re in the growth momentum to do so.

In the meantime though, we can work on making our daily apples more delicious for others.

The expression of you, your physical ‘products’ via the 5 senses, how you present yourself, as well as your inner sentiments, amounts to dozens of bushels of apples on a daily basis. Your words, your body expressions, your creativity, your work for yourself, your work for others, your thoughts, your feelings, and