Why is it so much easier to spend your every moment working, than it is to spend your every moment with loved ones?
Apparently money cant bring you happiness, so why do we all feel so inclined to earn as much of it as we can?
What are the pressures making us feel that we need to be this way? Surely the days of Social Class controlling our lives don't still exist?
Back 3000 years ago we would work to survive in a natural way, we would be out doors, hunting for our food, exercise, adrenaline. We would be up with the sun, sleeping with the moon, always with our loved one's, sleeping when we needed rest. Yes we may have evolved slightly but we still have the same needs. How is it ok to work indoors all day, barely spend times with those we care for, become accustomed to being sleep deprived, live to be obsessed with a perfection we cant achieve and feel embarrassed to discuss the reality's of being human. Maybe it isn't like this for everyone..
I look around and realise that although we may not have black and white; rich and poor anymore, we still have clear divides. We still have so many small minded people and we are still defined by our career, family and bank balance. Is this human nature?
I have began seeing laws, politics and media as a machine, i find it very easy to forget that it was created and can only exist because of us. This is something that is easily forgotten because it is so powerful. Something that worries me is the huge resemblance that it has to 'God': You don't completely understand it, no one does, it isn't obviously visible in your life but you know there is something there and you don't want to upset it.
I find other people's lives so interesting, even just seeing another family in there home, just being a family. Everyone has individuality and what i call soul and that is clear, you can feel that in there presence, but in our society the basics are always the same, our culture has evolved and that is obvious even just looking back 100 years, we don't have time to get to know our families through and through and therefore create our own means of domestic bliss. We have become accustomed to accepting our every day 'minor' stresses as life; traffic jams, bills, fine's, work deadlines, chasing that 'better' job or 'better' life, fitting all errons into an hour lunch break, basically living on a timer, the unexpected break down of your car, the TV breaking (your means of 'relaxation'), i could go on, and these are every day stress's that people don't even recognise as unnatural pressures. Emotion is lacking, stress is excelling. The fast pace of today is clear in our every action, or lack of. Again i am not denying the individuality of many but most family's now will bond with each other through watching TV, arguing; making issues out of things that aren't necessarily important in order to feel some sort of emotion, getting drunk at family events they don't want to be at. For a family to sit down at a table, eat a meal, communicate and be interested in the communication and want to do it is a real rarity and something i haven't personally witnessed in a long time.
Why would we want to sit down and embrace our family when everything around us tells us that our energy's should be focused on becoming more beautiful, more popular, more ambitious, richer... It isn't possible to be perfect, so everyone who is trying to be is going to be exhausted. You can never please everyone as everyone has different views of perfection. Individuality is natural and beautiful and every second the individual spends trying to be a popular view of perfection is another second wasted on becoming the same as everyone else i.e. boring, normal, replaceable, shallow, brainwashed.
People fear what they don't understand, and we were never taught to create our own life, our own views. We were only taught to understand the way our society runs and to abide by that. Like slaves we are told not to question our worth. If stress and the side effects of stress are such a common thing today then our lifestyles aren't healthy, that is fact and undeniable. So why is it compulsory to live this lifestyle on our planet that is free and belongs to no one? Its not!
To not notice the suffering everywhere can only be labelled as ignorance. Love is pure and natural and there is also so much of that around us, to me it is the warmth in a cold room.
I put it to you that next time you feel down, exhausted or stressed that you look at your life and open your mind, are you really just unlucky and have bad skin or is it a result of dreading that phone bill next week? Do you need to use that phone as much or would you be happier making more time to spend in the presence of those you love? How could you go about making that happen? Are your family really annoyances or are you unhappy in the job you do everyday before you see them? What other direction could you take? Is it really going to make that much difference if you wear the same dress out tonight as you did a week ago? Is it going to make you any less of a person to not resemble those rich and famous? Are those that are rich and famous as a whole even happy? What type of people are these efforts even attracting? Does it once again come down to money? Are you achieving a buzz around those with money because they are more exciting people? or because sitting in VIP is more comfortable than sitting on a couch a foot away? Why are you achieving that temporary buzz? Can that high knock you down lower than you where before just as quickly as it brought you up? Would you rather the fragile and temporary respect of those around you who are also stressing in order to achieve and maintain that image, or be happy?
I understand in this country we need money in order to survive, i am merely suggesting you find your balance, your lifestyle, your career, even your country! you don't have to live here and by these rules unless it makes you happy! Recognise what is important to you as an individual and meet those needs, it doesn't matter if they seem extreme or unusual wants from life, there is no reason for you to want the same as everyone else, except for the fact that you are expected to. Happiness is as much a natural part of life as upset, if you are far more familiar with upset then changes need to be made, two people could live identical lives with one miserable and the other ecstatic, not everything makes sense.
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