we don't own anything

that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service”

“There's a very helpful idea in Stoicism that we don't own anything in life. Of course, there are some obvious examples – you don't own externals, such as other people or other people's possessions – but at the same time, we often fall victim to routine and assume that we do, in fact, own everything around us.” - The Stoic Gym

NovelUp is becoming the go-to platform for my friends to read novels and stuff. I've been impressed even though I don't show it.

I prefer hard copies - reading a book with my phone is almost impossible for me. I doze off easily.

(I feel like I'm digressing too much. Let's take a step back).

The context is about owning and renting.

Books are not just something we buy and write our names on the rim. Now, we buy them on apps.

Wait, buy? Really?

When you buy something, you become the owner - but that's not the case currently.

The only thing we buy is the “rights” to read the books temporarily. Once we're behind in our subscription, our access is cut off.

Same thing goes for others as well.

We don't buy movies anymore - we subscribe.

Music? Nada

The owners can just wake up and pull their content off the streaming platforms and we the subscribers can't do nothing - we're that powerless.

Talk about saving our data, we rent space in the cloud to store it.

Then again, we don't own our houses… even if we built them. The land forever remains a property of the Federal Government so I'm asking, what exactly is ours?

Our body?

Romans 12:1: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service”

In other passages, it says that our body is His temple and he dwells inside.

Seems like we're just a form passing through space in time.

The real question is, Why do we go hard everyday trying to acquire everything we want?

We've seen that we don't actually own anything. Maybe our sole purpose on this earth is just to enjoy God's creation during the very limited time we have.

I've spent considerable time meditating and when I do, I think differently.

Making the most out of life goes way beyond material possessions.

Max Verstappen, in a statement last week said that he won't be racing in Formula 1 till he's 40 years old - even though he has a chance to win eight championships if he races for long, he doesn't want to spend half his life racing cars when he has a chance to do other things.

It's easy to get lost trying to pursue what we want so much that we forget to live in th

e moment and enjoy it.

Live. Fully. Present.