Recently I have been contemplating what is the true meaning of life what happens and what we make happen .What we are supposed to do in this planet where we are limited vertically by physics and in a lot other ways mentally or psychologically. I believe I found the answer to this so profound questions. But before we go there as this is a question that will poke the hornets nest surely , lets think about few very basic things. What in life is most valuable. Some might say my iphone or internet or some may say its the big home they own or a luxury car. But have anyone thought about the water they drink can someone truly live any meaningful life with a clean glass of water for more than a day. Or have anyone thought about a clean gush of fresh air they breath ; can anyone really still survive even couple of minutes without it. Probably no.May be lets think about time we only have 86k seconds a day and that is it. They are not going to get back any single second lost for any reason what so ever. Or may be a good physical health and good mental health. Without a good physical health every other material thing in the world would fade in its glory or more even a good mental health without which you will not experience anything meaningfully even if you have everything at your disposal. Have anyone thought what the the price of all these valuable things. They are priceless.
So the bottom line is in life most of the things that are priceless are free and can never have any price to it. But because they are free we never really understand the value of it.This is a quite ironic , is not it. And we will see lot more ironic things next.
Similarly like any living organism humans try to lean towards pleasure and away from pain. There is nothing wrong in it. In fact it a very basic primordial quality which is even exhibited at any level of living hierarchy like a amoeba or a ant or even a fish. For example if you have a amoeba in a petri dish and pass electric current or heat at one end of it the amoeba will move away from it and if you put some food source it will move towards it.However most organism move away from pain towards pleasure driven by their survival instinct. So whats wrong it it. Humans are different however. Human have a much better memory and much better brain. We normally define pleasure not for anything related to our survival. We have conquered everything related to survival and our pleasures and pains are no longer driven our natural tendency to survive rather the pleasure is normally driven by indulgence or a non fruitful habits. For example if you ask 100 people what pleases them 90% will certainly say partying or drinking or even eating a great tasting food. And if you ask 100 people what is pain probably most of them will say going to work , doing chores or working out at gym , run a mile or doing a creative project or any repeating thing. So what is the outcome of this type of mentality it create a bunch of over indulgent people who do not want to do much but want to have everything the world has to offer. Also not getting what they really desire like happiness and even end up losing the health. This create a burden on the society and more over burden on the planet and more over burden on them selves as pleasure is hard to achieve without a healthy mind and body.
Our true nature what we should be driven towards we really want is to experience everything but indulge in nothing material rather only indulge in something to improve internally like a skill or a mastery any specific craft of their liking or something creative or may be working out or running. We will discuss much more in detail in coming post.
There is a very well know proverb "we make the habits first then the habits make us". However only a very small fraction of people few intentionally make any habits.As habits making need discipline and an internal drive without which when the going gets tough which will inevitably happen we will stop or even move backwards. Have you seen anyone getting younger after passing of the days. Nope. Right? We always grow older no matter if we do anything or nothing. But in the habit making process we do go backward if we do not contribute towards to goal. So we have to be very careful. Especially when the going gets tough and our motivation and desire subsides.
Peace..Calm... Be happy with what you have rather than thinking you would be happy with what you want..
So the bottom line is in life most of the things that are priceless are free and can never have any price to it. But because they are free we never really understand the value of it.This is a quite ironic , is not it. And we will see lot more ironic things next.
Similarly like any living organism humans try to lean towards pleasure and away from pain. There is nothing wrong in it. In fact it a very basic primordial quality which is even exhibited at any level of living hierarchy like a amoeba or a ant or even a fish. For example if you have a amoeba in a petri dish and pass electric current or heat at one end of it the amoeba will move away from it and if you put some food source it will move towards it.However most organism move away from pain towards pleasure driven by their survival instinct. So whats wrong it it. Humans are different however. Human have a much better memory and much better brain. We normally define pleasure not for anything related to our survival. We have conquered everything related to survival and our pleasures and pains are no longer driven our natural tendency to survive rather the pleasure is normally driven by indulgence or a non fruitful habits. For example if you ask 100 people what pleases them 90% will certainly say partying or drinking or even eating a great tasting food. And if you ask 100 people what is pain probably most of them will say going to work , doing chores or working out at gym , run a mile or doing a creative project or any repeating thing. So what is the outcome of this type of mentality it create a bunch of over indulgent people who do not want to do much but want to have everything the world has to offer. Also not getting what they really desire like happiness and even end up losing the health. This create a burden on the society and more over burden on the planet and more over burden on them selves as pleasure is hard to achieve without a healthy mind and body.
Our true nature what we should be driven towards we really want is to experience everything but indulge in nothing material rather only indulge in something to improve internally like a skill or a mastery any specific craft of their liking or something creative or may be working out or running. We will discuss much more in detail in coming post.
There is a very well know proverb "we make the habits first then the habits make us". However only a very small fraction of people few intentionally make any habits.As habits making need discipline and an internal drive without which when the going gets tough which will inevitably happen we will stop or even move backwards. Have you seen anyone getting younger after passing of the days. Nope. Right? We always grow older no matter if we do anything or nothing. But in the habit making process we do go backward if we do not contribute towards to goal. So we have to be very careful. Especially when the going gets tough and our motivation and desire subsides.
Peace..Calm... Be happy with what you have rather than thinking you would be happy with what you want..
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