Convenience

 A lot of people think that joy comes with convenience.  They work to  make their life convenient with life-style, gadgets, up to date stuff and so on.  And they are lonely.  Why?  Because joy comes with meaning and not with convenience.  Many of us lack enough meaning in our life.  We tend to isolate in our convenience, with enormous time spent on the cell phone.  It is inconvenient to miss out on information, or it is inconvenient to be by oneself in silence.  Meaning comes with service to others, selflessness, in the way of being helpful to others.  Sometimes meaning comes with making life more difficult for others as in helping someone to stay sober by encouraging them to do the necessary work.  I wash up dishes, and other dirty things, load dishwasher and put away the food after dinner at times.  Is in convenient?  NO.  But it does give meaning to my life, a purpose outside of my ego.  I am part of a world larger than myself and that calls for stepping out of myself.