If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline for life would no longer teach me anything.
- Alyson Jones
Therein lies the secret to life.
While so many people strive to learn what life is all about and what it has to offer them, what truly matters is what they have to offer as a contribution to the total existence on earth.
Those who pray ask for things instead of committing themselves to doing something of value to the world.
Many who do not pray cry that the world is too hard on them, caring little or not at all about the burden that they place on the rest of the world.
Those who don't know how to manage their lives sometimes turn to addictions. Work, sex, drugs, religion, gambling, excessive eating, obsessions, hate, idol worship, they are all ways that people try to find meaning that the world can give to them. Not one of these contributes a thing to justify why these people use up natural resources.
Many people avoid getting involved with all kinds of things because it would mean too much learning for them to gain sufficient knowledge. Learning is work and they have been taught that work is to be avoided as much as possible.
Some are comfortable with their own ignorance, which eventually matures into stupidity.
Many people wonder why more people don't like them. They consider those who give freely of themselves to benefit others to be suckers. "If someone wants to be my friend, they can give me something or do a favour for me first, as a gesture of friendship."
In time, they find themselves standing on the corner waiting for the next bus. But there was only one bus in their lifetime. They missed it. They keep searching.
Few mourn their passing. It leaves more air for the rest of us to breathe.
Bill Allin
'Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's Ep[idemic Social Problems,' striving to encourage those who can to create more air for everyone to breathe.
Learn more at http://billallin.com
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Comments: 9
"Every creative act is a cessation of stupidity"
-Edward Herbert Land
Sometimes people need to be beaten up a little to get them to pay attention.
This sounds terrifying, as the people involved are already "damaged." However, those I have guided through dramatic life-changing situations have all come through positively and with the change being permanent.
These people have been ready to change, but needed to be given a hard shove off the cliff to precipitate their change.
Everyone else seems to ignore this type of message, considering me temporarily crankish.
Thanks for your candor, Julie.
Having a child you don't want, then keeping it, is worse (to me) than having a child you can't afford. An unwanted and unloved child is a tregedy to have in a classroom because there is so very little that a teacher is allowed to do to help.
Those toxic people can't be fixed (speaking as a social scientist). They are best avoided.
We each have to set our own agendas for our lives. We each have to lie our heads on our own pillows at night. And we each (if we are lucky) have to look back on our lives as they near the end and feel that we have lived well.
As an added point, especially to your "goofing off" note, thinking takes time. In many cases it requires the body to be relaxed and "out of commission" in order that the brain take control enough to focus on thinking.
In other words, goofing off can be productive.
Thanks for your thoughts.