Write your abstract here.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a
different result."
- Albert Einstein
Why is it that so many of us feel that, on a day to day basis, we are stuck in
the same reality?
Not everyone necessarily considers it a bad thing, on the contrary, most
people strive to replicate that same reality day in and day out whether
concious of it or not.
Yet there are many that feel trapped in their realities, and are desperate to
change them whether majorly or minorly, so why is it that they feel that goal
is always beyond their grasp?
Personally I think humanities biggest downfall is its ability to limit itself.
Thats not to say that I disagree with every rule and law on the planet, this
would obviously not be a better world without them. No, what I am talking
about is the belief that society shares that their are the people born to lead
and the people born to follow, the upper class and the middle, the greater
race and the weaker. We spend so much time criticising each other instead of
celebrating each other's differences, despite the desperate want for our own
unique personalities to be celebrated by everyone. We as a species
consistently try to limit ourselves into lifestyles that are either entirely self-
serving or totally out of control, and that is because many of us were never
told that we could be or do better.
The
potential of every single human being on earth is limitless, as long as we
are willing to provides ourselves and each other the oppurtunities to let this
potential flourish. Yet because of our self-serving nature we seem to move
further and further away from that goal while proclaiming loudly how close its
getting.
Our craving for
happiness and that feeling of being unique leads us on a
journey in life that sometimes rips both of those feelings away from us. Yet it
is only through our relationships with each other and our enviroment that the
true beauty and manifestation of those feelings comes into being.
So that begs the question, why do so many of us invalidate and destroy the
very two things that help us in our search for our true potential?
Because of human greed, people in power and their desperation to stay there
at any price.
Because of misunderstandings, and the huge lack of people willing to put
their boxing gloves away and listen to each other out of fear.
Because of money, and our love of it. The stupid illusion that by buying
things happiness follows, and that people without things arent as important.
Because of our own self-pity and avoidance of responsibility, by blaming fate,
the government, or a whole host of other things for being the barriers
separating us from happiness we are forgetting that the choices we make are
ours alone.
The last problem mentioned is by far the worst, we spend all day utterly
convinced that our own wants and needs should come first, and this is a view
held by 90% of the world in one form or another. By separating ourselves
from the issues, whether by giving it a bad name or by making it seem like it
would happen anyway, we remain convinced that things are absolutely out of
our control as individuals.
If things continue in this manner than the human race will not last much
longer, or at least that is my opinion, and although I'm sure you'll have your
own, I hope that what I wrote today has at least made you think about your
fellow man, and the great and terrible things we have achieved when working
together.
A thread in a carpet could never comprehend the beauty of the entire rug, it
can never understand its own importance because it is surrounded by
thousands just like itself. But it is together that these threads fufill their
greatest potential, without a single hint of ego/self-importance.
If only Man was as simple.
"No one person can do everything, but everyone can do something."
Immortal Technique