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Righteous Path
“The pursuit of happiness, depends what you think happy is,” is a quote that a friend of mine said before and should be taken to heart by people. It baffles me how people just are rats in a maze chasing the cheese till their death, then their kids do the same, so on, and so on. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying give up all your materialistic things, I’m just saying know that it isn’t everything and the best things in life are free. So get the dollar signs out of your eyes so you can see the world around you.
Life’s too short and I hope that you know this and notice you can build all your life but it could all collapse in a moment. What I’ve learned is the difference between “the truth question” and the “moral question.” The truth question is the question “How can I tell right from wrong?” and the moral question is “Why should I do the right thing?” First of all you can’t say you should do the right thing because it’s moral, because that’s a moral answer itself when asking a question about being moral.
After reading Practical Ethics by Peter Singer the ending has to do with all this, and basically it breaks down like this, you should do the right thing because it’s the right thing but people want something back so they want to do it out of self-interest. Basically there’s no legit evidence that an afterlife/heaven/paradise exists after you die, so not to do with religion we should act moral to better ourselves and the people around us.
So let me break it down to you like this, did you ever see the show My Super Sweet Sixteen on MTV? It’s these 15 year olds that instead of being appreciative for having whatever they want in the snap of a finger, they feel entitled to it. They’ve been spoiled to the point that their expectations are so high that what they complain over, most people in the world would be thankful to god that they have. For example on an episode, the parents of one of these kids bought a Mercedes Benz ($30-50k car) and gave it to the daughter a day early and she completely freaked out and cried her eyes out saying her birthday was ruined because they were supposed to give it to her during her big birthday party.
These kids that feel like they’re entitled have such a high level of expectation that it only keeps growing as they get what they want. Until the day their parents cut them off from the invisible umbilical cord. So in a way, with higher expectations you can never really reach happiness. It’s like the kid in the store that cries until they get that candy, and then next time in the store they cry to get the toy, and so on but they can never truly enjoying just having that toy or even candy. Things such as just sitting back and realizing how lucky you are and being thankful for everything you have...not just complain about things you don’t have or lost. As my teacher told my class “to save yourself you must forget about yourself.”
We see these rich TV characters of such high expectations as spoiled brats and don’t appreciate anything at all and don’t give back to the needy when they’re able to. Did you ever think that 3rd world country’s starving kids look at you this way? The iPods, flat screen TVs, brand name clothes, brand name shoes, own computer, and etc aren’t necessary. Say you bought used clothes or got "hand me down clothes," the difference between money if you donated would make a huge difference in a poor kid’s life. You know what truly sickens me, kids in 3rd world countries are starving and people in the U.S. are dealing with obesity!
Thing such as proudly graduating from a school after years of hard work, falling in love, having a child, and etc aren’t things that you could buy. It’s moments like these that make life worth living, but if all you do is chase money then it’ll seem that there’s not enough moments like these that make life worth living. In my perspective I see that life as just as your 5 seconds of time to make a change and enjoy your life as you live it. In 100 years from now, no one reading this blog will be alive, and two generations or even a generation after you will be forgotten by your great grand kids or maybe even your grandkids.
That’s why I’m saying if you don’t try to make a huge change, start up, or be part of a movement that really makes a change then how will you be remembered when your grandkids try to tell meaningful life stories to their kids about you and what you stood for. For example Martin Luther King Jr. made a huge change, and his most famous speech “I Have A Dream” is legendary in the time where racism was alive and this man along with others stood up for equality because regardless of your skin color it’s still only your skin color. So support movements that go against ignorance, movements that help out the needy and sick, movements that support getting kids into schools and off of streets, and any movements revolutionary like this.
I just want to send out a message for people to stop being so materialistic and only thinking about just themselves or just their family, because if you were in a homeless family living out on the streets you’d pray that there were people out there willing to help you out, or give you a job to get you on your feet so you could feed your family and give them the basic things everyday people overlook like normal sneakers and clothes.
It just bothers me watching people just working their 9 to 5, to go home and rest wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. That isn’t living life, that’s setting your life on autopilot until you die, and laying on your death bed realizing how much more you could have done or could have helped out. Watching society live like this is like watching an ant farm. We have to still make money but put money and ourselves towards helping others and programs that can truly make a difference, we must take the righteous path.
The path where we save ourselves by forgetting about ourselves. Where we help the poverty not by just donating money but by starting work programs and educate them, that could help them get on their feet. Sort of in a way that you “catch a fish for someone and you feed them for the day, but teach them how to fish then they can feed themselves for a lifetime.”
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