From the inside out

We feel through our own experiences.  Inadvertently, we feel through the experiences of others.  Compassion and understanding are highly undervalued.  The necessity to understand the plight of others, and to realise that every person has their own hurt to deal with, their own life experiences to evaluate, their own personal turmoil, this is all ignored for the self.  Self is important, no-one says it isn’t.  But understanding and empathy are not bad things.  People are all the same, we long for the same things, and we reach out for people to listen, and help, and long for someone to be able to be there and help us understand.

Life is amazing, yet it is so easy to fall into the same trap whereby we place our main concentrations on the crap hand that life has dealt us.  There are no winners or losers in the ‘crap life’ stakes…this is where we are all equals.  This is where a facet of our selves is tested, by ourselves.  You can’t play a game and always expect to win…likewise, you don’t always lose.

Experiences vary day to day, month to month, year to year…life to life.  Yet as we evolve, it seems that our view of life is taking an ever-increasing step backwards.  We complicate matters with external influences, we compensate for the lack of something by making up for it with external ‘splendours’.  When is it that we realise there is another way?

I don’t think that humans as a species evaluate themselves and think of themselves in the positive light we so deserve.  Maybe I’m an idealist….I would love for the world and it’s inhabitants to just exist..peacefully.  Money, power and status are competed for like they are going out of fashion…what is it that we’re really competeing for?  To be better than someone else, to have more money than someone else, to have rule over another person or country….does it make you better?? 

Internally, we’re dying…we’re becoming rotten to the core through this illusory quest for ‘something better’.  This is life..changes need to happen from inside.  We don’t pick up a life from the conveyor belt on our way out of the hospital after we’re born, it’s the one present we’re given..it’s ours to keep, no exchange, no return.  So we’re supposed to make the best of it that we can.

Thing is, we never realise until it’s too late….life’s little kick in the teeth for not appreciating her.

As Mahatma Gandhi said:

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”