The world is truly a beautiful place

There are so many wonderful things about life and the world is truly a beautiful place, it’s important to enjoy the gifts of life and to guard them well.  It’s in the guarding of wonderful that people sometimes have to dedicate themselves to other aspects of life, other than the enjoyment of life.  To ensure that the world remains beautiful and bountiful, people have to work for it.  When we are done with the work, we can enjoy the benefits of our work. If we put off work we only pretend to enjoy life as we neglect our own food and shelter.

Historically, society has seen those that are controlled by their vices and unable to devote themselves to working on building a beautiful world, as weaker and less trustworthy than those that can devote their time to a future and master their vices because it’s only from their hard work that we all have the things we need and can enjoy.  Working for everyones profit has also usually been seen as conquering the vices of greed, envy and jealousy.  While working for selfish gains has been seen as heartless and ignorant making the rich ashamed in front of the righteous, unless they are righteous themselves.

It takes a long time for change to happen

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Because it takes a long time for change to happen, it’s important to prepare for as early as possible.  Martin Luther King Jr. was born long after slavery ended, but he still dreamed of equality and there are still people dreaming of the day when race becomes as significant as eye color.  M.L.K. devoted his life to change understanding that he probably wouldn’t see the promised land but just like planting seeds, it takes time and effort for anything to happen.  With that time and effort, the fruits can be beneficial to generations and even produce more seeds to go on benefiting for generations.

Seeds for social change can be planted now to put an end to the divisiveness in society by remembering how to work together, instead of against each other in competition.  The roots of our social structure are based on cooperation, which is why we have cities of families and not family territories.  The rat race mentality we currently have, only pits one individual against another and destroys the empathy and compassion in society.  In a rat race, there are no winners because even rich people have problems, only money isn’t one.  Just because people have emotions there will always be suffering in society but when we adjust our perspectives and work for love instead of money we can plant the seeds for a society were, even with all the problems in life at least society will not be a problem for anyone of any class or race.

If you cover your eyes with your hand, you can’t see your hand.

There is nothing wrong with working for someone else’s dreams, as long as their dream isn’t your nightmare.  If you cover your eyes with your hand, you can’t see your hand.  Even though it is right in front of your face.  A lot of people think that they are free without thinking about what freedom is.  If they think about it, their freedom is an illusion and in reality they are slaves to the alarm clock who can’t stray too far from being away from work when it goes off, they can’t stay up too late to hear it, they don’t have time to work on their personal dreams and they answer to a boss if they are late for work.

In this kind of slavery people don’t get whipped by their bosses, instead they are beaten down with humiliation and chastised by their peers, friends and family for not slaving.  Which makes them feel like pariahs, for desiring the freedom to work on their own goals, rather than their bosses goals.  Many people even end up choosing freedom in poverty, over slavery.  Only later to become convinced they’re the low life losers society says they are because they’re poor, so they end up giving up through losing the motivation to try. It takes cooperation and respect for society to work.  Our work builds the society we live in and if we work together and respect each other, we can build a world were more people have the opportunity and support to accomplish their dreams rather than building a world that retards that opportunity, abandons people in need and in turn retards progress.