Lifez like dat
If we squint at life, it appears to be a smooth process from birth to death, but if we look more closely, we can clearly see that the seemingly smooth continuum was actually neither smooth nor continuous, rather traumatic and broken by distinct and often violent periods.
Except for some rather vague, broad and nebulous guidelines, none of us is ever taught how to live. We are not told the value of life nor what it means to be fully alive. We have no idea of the wonders we can take from life or of the responsibility we have to give it something in return. We are born into our world, educated to adjust to it accordingly to the dominant and then pretty much left to sink or swim.
There is no school for living, and a dearth of teachers of life. If we look to formal education for answers. We are most often given knowledge without judgment and facts without meanings. If we expect answers from religion, we are often persuaded to make the leap into faith. When we are incapable of complying, we are often made to feel incompetent and dependent. If we try to learn from life itself, we find that often it seems full of unforeseen dirty tricks for which we are not ready and from which we seem to glean little. If we try to learn from examples, we find too few models.
We are faced with reality that if we wish to live fully and in harmony with life, we will have to become self - motivated students. We will have to ready to risk, look inside ourselves, and proceed through trial and error. The job will be mainly ours. We will be required to be our own mentors.
Except for some rather vague, broad and nebulous guidelines, none of us is ever taught how to live. We are not told the value of life nor what it means to be fully alive. We have no idea of the wonders we can take from life or of the responsibility we have to give it something in return. We are born into our world, educated to adjust to it accordingly to the dominant and then pretty much left to sink or swim.
There is no school for living, and a dearth of teachers of life. If we look to formal education for answers. We are most often given knowledge without judgment and facts without meanings. If we expect answers from religion, we are often persuaded to make the leap into faith. When we are incapable of complying, we are often made to feel incompetent and dependent. If we try to learn from life itself, we find that often it seems full of unforeseen dirty tricks for which we are not ready and from which we seem to glean little. If we try to learn from examples, we find too few models.
We are faced with reality that if we wish to live fully and in harmony with life, we will have to become self - motivated students. We will have to ready to risk, look inside ourselves, and proceed through trial and error. The job will be mainly ours. We will be required to be our own mentors.