Why do people even feel the need to drink or to “excessively” eat, shop, watch television, play computer games, working, ect. Some will say theses are the joys of life, where alive to enjoy theses things! Without theses things what would be the point to living???
If all these superficial things was the whole point to life! Then would that not make your life superficial, and ultimately pointless? For some people this is how they feel, pointless! “This is how I felt”! So for those who can’t find contentment in this trivial-mediocre life-style, we turn to drowning out our thoughts with addiction [whatever form of addiction you have].
I spoke to a carpenter once, we had got into a small argument, about how he work so hard and that he was in-title to have his addictions. So I said “yes”, “with out these things life would be pointless”. He became silent. As if it had hit those longing question to which he shut out a long time ago, his answer was “well yeah” that was his right, “And rightly so”.
Some people may say I’m being negative, so I’ll put it in terms of negative and positive words.
Here are a few words to think about: negative- SUPERFICIAL, TRIVIAL, positive- SIGNIFICANT, INSIGHTFUL. Taking into considering the majority of people and their concerns and their actions, what words suites our society the most???
Are people spending their time on the superficially- trivial aspects of life or things with significance and insight to them.
Lets check out some of these activities that are playing a major role in our society, “and to a lot is considered very imperative to life”.
1. Sports is one of the biggest role playing ideology in our civilization.
2. Social gatherings with intoxication as the central point of congregation.
3.Idolization of sports and movie stars who set some of the worst moral and destructive habits in life.
4. Movies, television soaps, music, media with a central theme of sex as one of the main topics.
5. Sex.
Now ask your self deeply, don’t look around the room to see what other people are doing. Just ask your self “are these things in the ultimate scope of our humanity really significant or insightful”? or are they superficial and trivial????
Are these things really helping us as “HUMAN BEINGS”
Negative word:
su·per·fi·cial
1. Concerned with or understanding only the obvious.
2. On, near, relating to, or affecting the surface of something.
3. Shallow in character or attitude.
4. Swift and not thorough.
5. Only seeming to be real or the case.
6. With little significance or substance.
Positive word:
In-sight
1. The ability to see clearly and intuitively into the nature of a complex person, situation or subject
2.A clear perception of something
3.The ability of a person to understand and find solutions to his or her personal problems.
From my observations and experiences of our civilization the words that suit our society the most is superficial and trivial. Most have no real deep understanding to life, and a lot of the knowledge available is about the outwards appearance of life, “just dead matter”. Sports! which plays a major part in every culture today, is supported by the countries leaders and people to promote a strong sense of town, state and national pride. Now let me ask! “When you die”! “Is being Australian”, “American”, “Chinese or an English man or woman going to really matter”? How about what color skin you have? Will that matter? Lives based on reality like national pride is in the end! Empty, devoid of any real permanent reality.
Just names! Temporarily given too an impermanent external body of matter. It really doesn’t matter what belief a person has, whether you believe in heaven or hell, in reincarnation and karma, or that this is it mate one chance is all you get. Associating with the idea that you are a particular race, tradition, sex or religion in the end it just does not matter, not unless you think there’s an Australian heaven or hell. Or that when you get reincarnated you’ll always be an Australian, or maybe you think when you die you’ll be in an Australian non-existence! If you have some intelligence you’ll know this is stupid?
People do have some deeper concerns then sports, idols and sex. Like a genuine concern to help other living entity’s, But most people feel helpless and unable to really do anything. Ultimately they them selves are suffering and in fact can’t do much to help.
My parents, mostly my mother does love me and has my best interest at heart, they did there best to guide me in life. They could only guide me according to the knowledge that they themselves had been thought, Not just my parents but my teachers as well propagated this “truth” you know just concentrate on your studies; get a good grade ECT, ECT. And then you can be happy, “STOP” So your saying if I do all this I’ll be happy. So then! Why aren’t you guy’s happy. As a teenager all I saw is this constant struggle for more and more, so they say, “yes at the start it’s a struggle”, “but in the end you’ll be happy”. But what end are they talking about? From what I saw there was no end to this struggle, just this false hope that in the “end” everything would be better. Well is it?
For my parents I can say no its not, lets check it out since I was in high school to now. They are now divorce, my mother is still struggling very hard if not more. My father has major health problems and on top of it he is also struggling, are they happy? They have their ups and downs as they would say. But I would say over all they are tired! And I certainly don’t see any happiness not even contentment, just plain old worn-out.
What is this end their talking about to me it seems to mean death, as the saying goes rest in peace. No more struggle, but honestly how do they know? From what authority do they have to say that after death there’s no more hard-ships. Can they really make a guarantee on that, a solid promise that that’s the absolute truth?Maybe! Maybe not, who knows right? Just watch some TV and don’t think about it too hard mate, Just lighten up relax dude don’t take things so seriously.
But hey there’s nothing wrong in taking the footy seriously, or you’re favourite hobby you know those are things that matter.
This is to all the teachers of the world, mums, dads, leaders,
You are trying to guide people to happiness, BUT IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY YOURSELVES. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN!
Before you can give anything to some one else, first you yourselves must have that thing. Whether that may be! knowledge, money, food and most definitely happiness or at best the proper tools for happiness. YOUR TOOLS ARE FAILING YOU!
Look at the world you’re living in, and try seeing it with clearer vision, uncontaminated with lust and greed. Our society and humanity is degrading very- very slowly the only thing improving is technologies, which is making life easier for some and worse for others.
Now you want to pass this on in the hope of your children’s happiness. Check the stats out, more kids “your kids” are turning to alcohol and drugs earlier more so then in the past, their sexual activities are becoming more out of control, Sleeping around from one partner to the next. And YOU are marketing this as the superior culture, a culture that will bring you happiness. But even your very richest are empty devoid of any real substance, just a temporary substandard substance which ultimately leads to emptiness and substance abuse. The proof is all around you just open your eye’s, there is even studies from the united nation showing that the happiest people in the world are from some of the poorest countries in the world. They are more content as oppose to richest who have a never- ending hunger for more.
The researchers for World Values Survey described the desire for material goods as "a happiness suppressant".
They say happiness levels have remained virtually the same in industrialized countries since World War II, although incomes have risen considerably
