Myriad thoughts on a million things
Life
Living for today vs. building for tomorrow
0I’ve always wondered about this whole human life experience. We are born, have a few carefree years of childhood, a few anxious years of teenage, many stressful years of working and many blissful/cantankerous (depends on one is happily married or not) years of married/ single life and then we’re done. Heavenly gates are hopefully there to welcome us back to the realm. And in during this whole journey we go through this myriad emotions and experiences that hopefully make it all worth the effort.
Most of us, in our lives, are focused onto doing things that will make our tomorrow better, safer, richer, happier. We work, spend the majority of our lives in closed spaces trying to make enough money to buy the things we think will make us happy today and to save for the things we will need in the future. It just feels like this endless cycle of want, save, buy and then want something more expensive/better, save more, buy more… and on and on.
There is never any satisfaction with the way things are. It is a fundamental human need to forever strive for more. That really is why the human race has reached the pinnacle it has today ( I mean pinnacle in evolutionary and technological sense, not a moral or philosophical sense)… so this endless want for more is a good thing right? Then why does this very thing make the average human experience seem so futile? If we had the ability to live for today, then each day would be rich, full and not a day spent in doing things in preparation for a hopefully better tomorrow.
The Power to Design our Lives
0As in all great designs, there is a very thought through carefulness to the whole randomness of life. At first glance it would appear arbitrary, random, but beneath it all is an intricate design waiting to be glanced upon, understood.
In terms of art, many would have experienced this with the great works of Woodsworth and Blake. For example, Blake’s most well know work ‘Tiger tiger burning bright’, on the surface would seem like a child’s nursery rhyme. But only a literature enthusiast who has spent time and energy to understand the true brilliance of the piece would be able to see the grand design behind this really intellectual poem.
Similarly, if one was to see the various things that happen to us, the experiences we go through as disconnected and random, one would be underestimating the greatness of the grand design of our lives. This is not to urge you to consider the power of something as vague as destiny, but something far more scientific than that. Science believes that for every action, there exists a reaction. That simple theorem translated in real life can help us see some of the outcomes of our lives as result of a great design… one that we craft in the everyday choices that we make, the thoughts we think every day.
This is not so much an original thought as it is my verbalization of some of the basic principles from numerous books/websites on the power of the Secret (ref Rhonda Bryne). For the unaccustomed, ‘The Secret’ is a hugely successful book on the power of thought and belief. The writer collates experiences and dialogue from the proponents of the secret and highlights how every thought that passes through our minds today actually shapes our tomorrow.
Some might say it’s out there or that it’s just a bunch of hocus pocus. For the scientifically restricted there will never be enough proof because human lives and outcomes can never be measured in terms of equations. But for the slightly open minded, this philosophy offers a great means to creating some level of understanding of our lives and how we can, if not design it completely, nugde it towards what we want it to be. Some simple concepts of thinking good thoughts, doing unto others as you would expect unto yourselves, believing something exists and thereby creating the space for it to really come into existence, etc… might not get you ready results. But practicing these can definitely empower you to achieve great things that you think are not possible now.
Believe is it there and it will be…. And believing never cost us anything. So why not try it?