Breaking The Pattern; Paying More Attention To Most Important Things In Life.
Introduction
Legends taught of men like Hitler and Caligula, when you talk of betrayal, people like Brutus comes to the mind, we heard of Alexander the Great conquering the world and dying at 33, we heard of empires built and crumbling and how technology seems to trump technology to birth an even better technology, it's like at one point in time there's always a type of value associated with a certain person in history in comparison with what we currently have at the moment.
It feels like a sort of repititiveness, a sort of deja vu and it's like we're psychologically walking in cycle in the advent of the human evolution, trying to changing but only changing the things that only matters a little.
Technology Trumps Technology...
The current technology we have at the moment will die and something superfluous will arise again and sometimes we often overestimate our achievements so much that we lose focus on the principal thing. I use to say that the human life is one of the most fragile thing in the universe however not a lot of people have come to a deeper understanding of this.
There is a sort of unconsciousness of the mind, people are beginning to see themselves as superhumans, tweaking their bodies to an end of futility. One thing I know is, we humans have a soul and that's why death is only the beginning. I believe we somehow only become conscious of our fragility when we maybe attend funerals or visit dying people in the hospital, we appreciate our ability to get by in life when we see how other people struggle.
But then we do not let this moment of epiphany sink in, it shallows at the edge of the mind and at that little moment of appreciation we get lost again in thoughtlessness and mindlessness. Truth is, when you look at most powerful people in the world they feel invincible and as a result of this, they lose regard for human lives and ignore the need to cultivate the proper human values.
Money and power makes people feel like super humans sometimes and this is because a lot of these people doesn't understand human powerlessness against inevitabilities like death, living a reckless life is because people chose to be unaware, uneducated and fail to be enlightened about the depth of the truth behind the human existence.
100% Aware (Consciousness)
Consciousness of ourselves and our environment is something I feel the human race lacks sometimes. I've been exposed to a lot in my lifetime, I've know pain and I've known true sadness, but when you look around even people who seem to be happy, satisfied or fufilled are lacking an essence.
Life is short but then we get engrossed with things that hardly matters sometimes. Death is unreal (I mean it feels unimaginable so we rather not imagine it) and sometimes when you decide to imagine it this is when you'll begin to understand that despite all our knowledge and wisdom we're still largely ignorant and ynaware of a lot of things. Why do you think people seek goodliness and religion? It's because life eventually comes to an end and what next for us then?
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Conclusion
That was a rhetorical question; nevertheless, I believe we should seek knowledge beyond our curiosity. Trends and pattern is what makes the human race redundant, men have always been known for greed, isn't there a different pattern. For a person seeking to conquer the world what of a time when he wouldn't be around to bask in the glory of what he's conquered? Will the world forever remain conquered?
This are some of the question that might make us change our perceptions towards life. While we need to enjoy life to the fullest, it's important that we look at the pattern of life and chose to be different, take time to ask ourselves the uncomfortable questions because we lose sight of what's important when we begin to take away importance that the things that are really necessary.
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