There is something awfully wholesome about a person who, finished with their day climbs straight back into bed to savor the sweet taste of rest. They may not even have time to shower. All the more heart-warming in that case.
There is something saintly, even deeply honest about it. It might be the most honest part of their day. The first thing that they really mean with all their heart and without double-think.
We sometimes underestimate the suffering of the everyday man.
The people in this world are in a continual process of release and trauma-absorption.
The hipsters standing on the side of the street with tank tops and skinny jeans and nikes and the most fashion-forward tattoos are not aware of this.
They are here on holiday. They don't do stress. They laugh and manipulate their way through life.
When you finally see this you will see that there's very little middle ground.
There are very few sophisticates who are still able to hold that center.
Mostly things have split apart. Mostly we offload or take on too much. Mostly we're nice or we're too cold.
The world is full of shock absorbers and people releasing their uncertainty onto others.
Some people don't even experience trauma because they see it from a long way off and dish it out to others before it even gets to them.
We call these people successful businessmen.
They are so good at convincing us that we're doing a noble thing that we don't notice how ignoble they are.
Well this is also the basic but lost message in communism. Just because 90 percent of evil that goes on is due to businessmen does not mean that businessmen are all evil.
The fact that we're not able to stop ourselves when the going is good is much of the problem.
The greedy man does not know that he's greedy.
The humble man does not feel that he's being abused.
And so the circle turns.
This is also the problem with the idea of Karma. There are too many humble people taking on too much pain.
There are lazy people who feel more entitled by the day.
But most of the time our logic is against us. We hate what we hate because we go by the logic of our emotions. Our emotions prepare a logical argument for anything long before we're able to think of it.
The best we can do is work actively in the opposite direction.
We have to counter our tendencies with other tendencies even if logic says otherwise.
For instance, if we don't feel like writing a blog for one cents a day like I do because we don't feel we deserve a voice, then we must act as if we're deserving and write the thing.
In closing, let's investigate what we most hate in every day life. I don't mean politicians, but those we deal with habitually. If we see an old torn up lady with a sunken face and feel immediately disgusted, well maybe we should rather go up to that lady and help her with her shopping bags home.
Maybe that's why some of us can't get a girlfriend.
Maybe we're looking at things from the wrong side of the telescope.
Maybe just maybe the path to all that we need is covered in the dead leaves of belief that we don't need the path in the first place.
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