Happy trails
(Sorry no time for editing, raw material)
Many of you might think that I am of the opinion that in order to make this a better world we need a war or a wide spread virus to annihilate most of us and only then with less than half of the population here, we would have to re think the whole plan and maybe get along and survive as a species. As much as I would like to get hold of rifle and shoot a couple of mother fuckers, deep inside I know this will only make me happy, but it would hardly help humanity.
The truth behind solving out issues is first of all recognizing the problems we think affect humanity as a whole. We must look into the eye of the things that prevent us from being happy.
Noam Chomsky and David Edwards mention that the most important thing that affects our existence is denial, denial of the things happening around us. Denying that our well-being is due to someone else’s suffering. Converting our pseudo happiness into an involuntary extortion. Being as selfish as to accept and live under this precept is indeed poison for your soul. Denying we have no part in this wrecks our sole goal of wellness and comfort.
I ma sorry but I have to put this into context by allowing myself as an example. Many of you are now laughing because we are all aware that using me as an example is like using a hippopotamus as an anorexic, however I have no other source than my own.
There has been time in my life when things were good. During the early nineties I made a fortune in music. I made in a day what a regular person made in a month. For six years I enjoyed the Vida loca we all dream of. By the end of that same decade another spell of good luck came across and I started working for a company that saw something in me not even my mother had seen before (to be honest nor have I) and enjoyed a good reputation, good money and a comfortable life, these two were the worse periods of my life. These past six years in Barcelona has been the most stable and comfortable I had ever lived and seldom have I found myself more stressed and anxious.
On the other hand, during a trip to a monastery in Switzerland, things went terribly wrong and I ended up being alone, broke and a million miles from home. During my first come to Europe back in the late eighties I found myself in Porto, with 10 US$ and no place to sleep and had to play the bongos on the street for weeks before I managed to get work -Happiest days of my life.
Now, I am not falling for the cheesy moral of incentive and innocence at work during hard times. That is obvious and open to all to enjoy. I am trying to go deeper into matters by exploring the real reasons why, when we are in jeopardy, something inside triggers and brings out the best in you. Some lost forgotten strand of DNA brings back what this terrible world takes away from you. I am sure that if you have gone through hard periods, chances are these also coincide with finding extraordinary people, doing extraordinary things and loving every moment of it. So we come to another problem -routine. Routine breaks our will to exceed. Routine makes us fall into a spiral of comfort and vices that we, later, close our eyes to greater opportunity. Our world depends on routine and the powers that be will inflict any damage to your well being if you dare go against it.
So, I am sorry to say that the only solution for this world would be to give up most of the stuff we have. As Budha said, let go of your possessions and be a free being, let them go to achieve happiness. I am on my way. Slowly but steady.
The truth behind solving out issues is first of all recognizing the problems we think affect humanity as a whole. We must look into the eye of the things that prevent us from being happy.
Noam Chomsky and David Edwards mention that the most important thing that affects our existence is denial, denial of the things happening around us. Denying that our well-being is due to someone else’s suffering. Converting our pseudo happiness into an involuntary extortion. Being as selfish as to accept and live under this precept is indeed poison for your soul. Denying we have no part in this wrecks our sole goal of wellness and comfort.
I ma sorry but I have to put this into context by allowing myself as an example. Many of you are now laughing because we are all aware that using me as an example is like using a hippopotamus as an anorexic, however I have no other source than my own.
There has been time in my life when things were good. During the early nineties I made a fortune in music. I made in a day what a regular person made in a month. For six years I enjoyed the Vida loca we all dream of. By the end of that same decade another spell of good luck came across and I started working for a company that saw something in me not even my mother had seen before (to be honest nor have I) and enjoyed a good reputation, good money and a comfortable life, these two were the worse periods of my life. These past six years in Barcelona has been the most stable and comfortable I had ever lived and seldom have I found myself more stressed and anxious.
On the other hand, during a trip to a monastery in Switzerland, things went terribly wrong and I ended up being alone, broke and a million miles from home. During my first come to Europe back in the late eighties I found myself in Porto, with 10 US$ and no place to sleep and had to play the bongos on the street for weeks before I managed to get work -Happiest days of my life.
Now, I am not falling for the cheesy moral of incentive and innocence at work during hard times. That is obvious and open to all to enjoy. I am trying to go deeper into matters by exploring the real reasons why, when we are in jeopardy, something inside triggers and brings out the best in you. Some lost forgotten strand of DNA brings back what this terrible world takes away from you. I am sure that if you have gone through hard periods, chances are these also coincide with finding extraordinary people, doing extraordinary things and loving every moment of it. So we come to another problem -routine. Routine breaks our will to exceed. Routine makes us fall into a spiral of comfort and vices that we, later, close our eyes to greater opportunity. Our world depends on routine and the powers that be will inflict any damage to your well being if you dare go against it.
So, I am sorry to say that the only solution for this world would be to give up most of the stuff we have. As Budha said, let go of your possessions and be a free being, let them go to achieve happiness. I am on my way. Slowly but steady.
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Our greates obstacle in reaching our "happiness" is ourselves. But we are all different and for some of us (and I am talking about myself too) daily routine is the solution and that is what brings tranquility to my life and therefore my soul. The only way you can find the right "thing" that would make your life in balance is getting to know "yourself" and as long as you see an alien looking at you in the mirror you will not know what you want and need and what you should believe in or wish for. Good luck my friend to all of us in finding that someone in us all!! :)
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