How many things in life are worth working for to the point of tiredness and exhaustion? I happen to see each person as being individually convinced and sort of lured into a trap by people and environments. It's considered normal to have at least one point which you are willing to go above and beyond for. When life is walking in a circle but sold as moving into a brighter future. When is it the case that the system sold you a vision of happiness in exchange for all your work being under the banner of capitalism and innovation, when do we realize the system won and got everything from us, and we lost a little bit of humanity, lost our time here, lost our work, and made the future a little bit more uncertain for the younger generation? What are the criteria for judging the value of the lives we walk as an unescapable living experience not only in the context of the system, but ultimately in the greatest context of the universe? Because it's easy to forget that we live in a universe and believe everything the system gives us is all that's here. The world has been specifically designed by all of us to convince each of us that the system is the highest good we can strive for, and for a beneficial relationship with the system it is worth it to uphold this relationship at all cost. To convince each of us that the system is equal to life, that life on Earth is equal to the system, and convince us that for a relationship with the system it is the highest merit to place it above life itself. Life doesn't revolt or say anything to dissuade us, therefore I have the freedom to manipulate and mould life into whatever vision I like. I have the freedom to be a little but crucially better than everyone else. I have the freedom to mislead everyone else but myself.
Freedom is misunderstood to be the freedom to be able to do and say anything you like. Bernard asked, how can freedom exist when the freedom to abuse is accepted and allowed to walk on the Earth as human beings? How does freedom exist when people allow themselves to be superior enough to disregard everyone else, creating superior and inferior human beings? Does superior and inferior people exist? It's a matter of opinion, isn't it?
Why do people allow the premise that they will realize the value of their own life only after they have walked their life, i.e. when it's too late to change or correct themselves? Immediately I see this as a license and permission given to oneself to abuse and misuse. It's the perspective that you can deal with the consequences later, enjoy yourself now in spite of some of our definitions of enjoyment compromising the enjoyment of other people.
Why are we generally so passive and accepting of the views we have, the behaviours we exhibit, the habits we have, the thoughts we think? I believe everyone sees how messy everything is because of ingrained and taught routines and behaviours and mannerisms in others. But it never occurs to us that we are doing what everyone else is doing. Accepting what was given from whatever and whoever and allowing that seed in us to play out its design. Not because it is benevolent, but because it's mine and I have the freedom to walk the path of least resistance. If that design happens to threaten or violate other's designs, it's god. If that design wins us the jackpot it's us.
When I know in me is a seed and that seed grows into an unescapable living experience, and I'm sold the idea that I'm unable to place a value on my seed until it actually plays out, meanwhile I don't know if my seed is of a benevolent or evil design, but boy it's clever and skillful to the utmost degree at making me think I'm right and this is good, I need some time to think. People think they can wing it and come out unscathed. Bullshit like God has a plan for you, your life is already made, there's no harm in pursuing your interests. Wouldn't it be astounding if there was a way to ascertain the value of your seed when you still have time to correct it as yourself? That seed is consciousness, and it has a conscious, subconscious, and unconscious layer. At Desteni we highly suggest that everyone should take a look at their own consciousness because it's an inner space that only one can be responsible for.
It astounds me, how most people never asked that question: is my own consciousness of a benevolent or evil design? Virtually all people I meet and talk to naively embrace their interests as their own and share it as the greatest thing since sliced bread. Where do I see people are acting sparingly? In how they spend money and wear clothes and eat, but in the big things like the nature of the design of your own consciousness, everyone's like "I have an entire life to spend, I can be generous and forgiving when it comes to my own mind." Or "It's too difficult to alter anything about my own mind." Or "That's God's plan." Doesn't anyone get sick and tired and fed up constantly acceeding to a system with its own plans and agenda that you did not place there? Doesn't anything the system demands ever go in conflict with anything of your own mind? I stand and observe people my age paying lots of money getting the look they desire through products, hanging out with only the people they like without questioning their likes, living as if they are still in kindergarten with an authority and rules and they do their own thing, not questioning the actual value of their own thing. Aren't personal interests so insignificant in their application and unsatisfying as an entire lifestyle? Isn't the exciting part of being an adult having a say in the morals and actual working of the system? Adulthood is the stage when you're allowed and given access to more of the system. Isn't there a sense of responsibility that goes with the access?