Do you remember how happy we were as kids? Because we were oblivious to everything. In our mind no thoughts of old age, sickness, death, war, hate, prejudice, social acceptance, abuse, money, or survival existed. We just wanted to eat our favorite food and watch Tom and Jerry. At least it is my hope you didn’t experience a painful childhood, and that you weren’t exposed to much of reality. But then we get older and something changes. We are exposed to everything and we get overwhelmed. Then a million thoughts of “what ifs” fill our minds with fear. If someone has the ability to control their thoughts and focus on nothing but what is in front of them, then it would decrease unrest, at least to a significant degree.
What would you do if there was a toy robot that cursed at you? You would laugh right? A robot can move and it can only do what its inner mechanism allows it to based on how it was built. It didn’t make itself. When a person insults you imagine as if it was a robot doing that to you. Don’t take it personally. We didn’t make ourselves, and can only move as our brain allows us to. We can only choose from the options this world contains, we are contained. Some similarities to help in redirecting our thoughts, our imagination, to a less painful experience when dealing with reprimand.
Thoughts, are all that run through our heads, like a waterfall. When we learn to take control of our thoughts, to stop them, to redirect them, to have them focus on the color, the sound, the smell, the taste, and the feel of what is in front of us, no past, no future, in that precise moment there is peace; instead of unrest from what we want to mold towards our wants and ways.
I think we worry far too much about so many things. We cannot control everything on this earth nor elsewhere. Children come into this world as innocents. It is us who say no or stop to them. It is us who pushes them to grow up faster and faster. Give them technology to hypnotize them as the tv does to babysit them. Give them computers and laptops to stifle their creativity. We as parents worry. We demonstrate worry to our children. We coddle them too much. We do not let them play outside in the mud with toy trucks or dolls both boys and girls. We are doing our offspring a disservice. We worry about what others say about us. As if they are even talking about us. It is undesirable. Each of us needs to be free and to live. Make our lives sing.
@PoetryNEmotion I am mesmerized by your writing ability! I couldn’t have said it better myself! You are absolutely right. It feels like a mechanical and robotic society. Where everyone works hard to put a sticker label on their face that says, “I am worthy, talk to me!” We are all human. We are scared creatures, here in this world as the consequence of our parents’ pleasurable action. Then maneuvered as puppets through reward and punishment to do as others want. Wants, wants, wanrs. We almost have to become numb, expectations never cease, people are never fully satisfied they always want more, more, more. We have to stop time calm ourselves, calm our minds, and look at what is in front of us. Who were we before we started to “compete”, who were we before we were aware of others placing labels on us based on our actions. Who were we then, and who are we now?
