Live merrily, oh my friends, free from cares, perplexity, anguish, grief of mind, live merrily.
Marsilius Ficinus, quoted by Robert Burton in Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621
So, free yourself of care. To become cheerful and carefree is your revolutionary duty as a freedom-seeker. Stop working; stop buying; start living. Feast, drink. Eat capons and good hams. Drink spiced wines and fine ales. Make your table groan with food. Make jam and chutney. Play the hurdy-gurdy. Get a piano. I have just converted my home pub into a music room. We found an old honkytonk piano which was practically free. So now we can have sing-songs round the old Joanna. Just as your anxiety is a product of your imagination, albeit influenced by the commercial world, so your imagination has the power to replace it with good cheer.
Excerpted from THE FREEDOM MANIFESTO by Tom Hodgkinson Copyright 2006.[/quote]
Now that was a most excellent post, scaredy! Definitely need to get that book. 🙂
Of course, I am an anxious conspiracy theorist, so that might account for my liking the book. 😉
