Short Rant About Life and Stuff
Thinking of Earth as a unified eco-system in which we humans are just a part, albeit a significant part, we may wonder why so much energy is directed to fighting and claiming bits of the planet as 'mine' or 'yours'. Life is probably an illusion anyway, so why have we got all this energy expended as social separation and conflict?
We are all simply travellers who at some point in time-space arrive at a personal departure destination where we say 'goodbye', and leave. Earth is not yours or mine in any definitive way. It doesn't belong to any one, at least not to any human. Humans just happen to be on Earth and travelling together with many others through a space-time experience for a short while. Rather than fighting each other like unruly kids it's far more desirable to have mature collective thoughts of cooperation, harmony, and better health.
For a moment ignore the crowd and look around. Do you see just how much of planet Earth is amazing? It travels a 26,000 year cycle during which we each experience a tiny span of about 80 years. During that short span we experience our fellow travellers and make many decisions, often based on limited knowledge and fuzzy self awareness. For example, we destroy native forests in preference for palm oil plantations, and we focus on making money so we can build concrete jungles. Smart eh?
Those poor decisions are probably why most of our co-travellers appear difficult. Like you and I, they are doing what they think is right, and learning from their experience, but unfortunately some of them gang together and start land conquests and wars. There's plenty of these folk. We have almost continuous wars as evidence! Collective greed and a psychopathic desire to inflict pain on others are common, but undesirable aspects of the human dark side!
Throw a few strongly ego-centric leaders into the mix, leaders who use the media to spread thoughts of materialism and minimal respect for others, and the outcome is further disharmony, heaps of it! I guess this undesirable situation is with us until we collectively reflect on life and change our thoughts!
A London Fog Comparison
Charles Dickens wrote various novels in which he portrayed various characters who appear out from a London fog. The characters stay in focus for a short while, and then fade away back into the fog.
If you are old enough to have experienced a London 'pea soup' you will know how fog is an appropriate metaphor of life. It's difficult to see much in a 'pea soup' fog, and we can't see much of our future life until the future morphs into the present. In this sense fog is a metaphor of life. We experience the present in which we meet people, or events, experience them for a while, and then they pass out of present experience! Very much like characters in a Dickensian London fog.
Travel an Amazing Life Journey
You may appreciate this short video clip. It's not a particularly beneficial use of energy, but it demonstrates how diverse we humans are.
The lyrics in this next clip are from the book, Ami, Child of the Stars ... It's another example of human diversity. We are all quite different. We make daily behavioural choices, all derived from thoughts.
Short Music Clip - Ami "Child of the Stars"
Thoughts Become Behaviour. Thought Management is the Key!
James