Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Question mortality

A question, defined as a quest for an answer, taking this a step further, having many questions, defined as a quest to search for truths, higher truths. At some point in our lifetime we may experience a traumatizing event, a loss, or as of recently an economic downturn which resulted in a loss of long term employment, or a home foreclosure, and then, on the flipside, there are very positive events, which are giving birth and becoming a mother/father, overcoming a life threatening illness in a miraculous manner such as beating cancer. There are things that happen in our life we just have no control of, and when they shake up our world we begin to look a little deeper within ourselves, asking how and why and what this all is saying to us. Of course there are those who will stop and question briefly, only to shrug it off and continue down the familiar path they've always known until another wake up call rears it's head in the form of an unwanted reality. We get so many chances to get this game of life correct, the life stream is always waving us in the direction [desires] we want to go, yet we ignore the signs and tag them as mere coincidences and tell ourselves that we need to live in the real world where struggle is necessary to survive, as a majority of the human race believe that struggle and hard work bears fruitful rewards and doing what you love and living your dreams are just plain delusional, of course this is backwards thinking. In 2008 when people began losing their jobs and homes and their very livelihoods, fear and panic set in, making the situation much worse, so naturally it escalated in the next few years as more foreclosures occurred and unemployment continued to rise and yet, people continued to fear the worse, compounding this great recession. Before this so-called great recession things were pretty decent in America, especially in the 90's, low unemployment, a thriving economy with retail, a housing boom where anyone could qualify for a home loan, but things got out of control, overconfidence set in, things just had to balance out, they could not continue to go in the direction they were heading, as over confidence continued to rise, more and more people were consuming and consuming more, resources were being consumed at a faster rate than anytime in history, we became the world's largest consumers and we were on a collision course with a harsh reality, enter the great recession, or what I deem, the period of re-adjustment or the balancing out. It does not matter how or why the great recession happened, whether it was some great conspiracy or otherwise, the fact is it was necessary to make us take notice, as a consciousness, that we are going in the wrong direction and we need to course correct, if we continue to live in a society of mass consumerism, consuming and consuming more and more, events such as a great recession will continue to happen to once again balance things out. Look no further than past history and it's recessions, as history continues to repeat itself, and yet no real lessons are learned, no adjustments made, just failed policies instead of correcting the course. What's alarming about all of this is the wake up calls will become more and more severe if the failed policies aren't resolved, look no further than the threatened world currency, wall street, and the out of control greed along with the shrinking middle class. But this is not all gloom and doom, it was the very great recession that drove me towards a better life, I knew that one or two things could happen, I'd buy into all the fear and go into survival mode and live the life of stress, fear and anxiety, along with endless struggle, or take back my own power and live a struggle free life and have everything I want despite a ''recession'' because I choose not to be affected by it. Of course I chose the latter, this is something we must all decide as individuals, questioning our own beliefs and asking ourselves if they're serving us as far as living the life we choose to live, rather than following the herd and buying into all the fear propaganda that's around every corner we turn. We can't predict the future, we can only make choices that help keep us on the path we choose, what's happening outside of us, as unpleasant as it can sound, does not have to affect us, remember, WE create our own world, our own reality, the world does not create us, we are not defined by the events that happen in society, we are defined by how we react to them, either out of fear, or out of courage, recession or no recession. Even though it's been 8 years and the overall economy has made improvements, many are still reeling from the effects, but it's important to see these events as opportunities not defeats, the reality is that everything has a dark energy and a light energy, and balance is necessary, that's how the Universe works.

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