Wednesday, August 14, 2013

The bunker mentality (#1657)

I choose not to have the bunker mentality. I don't mind at all some quiet peaceful time but not at the expense of missing out on life. One thing maturity does help all of us to understand is that life is too short to be playing defense with it. Certainly we all need to protect ourselves in some ways but not to the point of barricading ourselves away from the movement of life around us. It really does all boil down to what our outlook is and if it is upbeat then we are far more likely to share that positiveness with others. If however we are sternly closed minded and unforgiving we are far more likely to shutter away from those who would call us on it. We all have problems that if they are not overwhelming at least feel like they are. Embarrassment about how our lot in life has turned out is natural and something every one of us endures. It is not an excuse to hide away from the world while being afraid of any new change that is unfamiliar. Fear and shame can do that to us, make us feel like we have to get what we need in order to pull out of society and live the rest of our lives as if we are on an island. The problem with that is that we are not "hard wired" to being isolated. We need new experiences in order to satisfy our nature of curiosity. We are biological data processors and if anything data processors need constant information in order to being most effective. Being human is a special phenomenon and wasting any of the limited time we have not securing the most out of life is just an unwise conclusion. Our society as presently formed doesn't do as much as it could for the sake of our opportunities and experiences and finding ways to improve on that requires that we get out in society and experience it first hand.

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