Just like most things we experience in our lives, how we react is up to us. No doubt most of us follow familiar patterns with the ensuing predictable results. However, when we start from the point of not putting ourselves first in all the things we enjoin, we can find that results, more often than not, are as pleasantly unpredictable as any new discovery. I cannot hammer this point home hard enough, getting out of selfishness is the best remedy for those of us who wish to have happiness in our lives. What is the greatest value one searches for in their lifetime? Is it power and wealth and all the recognition that those could bring? Not many achieve power and wealth with positive recognition. The elusive true happiness in our lives only comes about when we feel the happiness in our souls; not in our pocketbooks or our ego's control over others. Our individual worlds are shattered when we have lived a life of illusion and then come to realize that all we ever wanted to do was to be loved as well as love back. My blog is all about what makes us the best of who we are and less about the failures in our civilization. But the contrast is indeed needed to be written about because there is no way to explain perspective without having the juxtaposition of the two. I am human and as such I mostly fail in my meager attempts to write about how we can live, given our natures, instead of how we do live given our stubborn individual authority to dismiss logic when it does not align with our wants and desires. The premise of starting from the same place is how I perceive all of us. We are human and have human natures. These natures have been distorted by structural paradigms and that leads us away from the true natures of what we are. Until we realize that by giving of ourselves to others is our best and most true path to happiness, we will continue to destroy the best hope we have for advancing our species into our better and best future.
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