Miss the mark!

A post on a credit filled, cashless system was read by your truly this morning… It’s contents are here.

I then replied with this statement on my Twitter account: “The @the99percent just posted a note on paying with your name, no card, no cash. The Mark gets a little closer.” Funny right? It was after a conversation with my father that I then posted another Tweet reading: “The danger is not in thinking conspiracy theory, but in not thinking. Real eyes realize real lies. Free your mind.”

Get debt free!

You may think conspiracy exists and the problem with conspiracy or how it is now viewed, is that it makes a laughable idea out of a possible threat. With as much distraction as our common day to day life presents us, not to mention our ever hungry need for wealth and things, we are blinded to the habits that have formed. I am not against shopping nor purchasing goods as it makes our markets strong and our paychecks dwindle. I am, however, opposed to the spirit of this current world state which is so strong that is has not only blinded most but captured them in an ongoing anxiety to have, to have more and to not be satisfied.

Why am I opposed to debt? Well, there was once a man that said you cannot serve both God and mammon, which translated from the Greek, means greed, personified usually as a deity. Most of us would agree in our own minds that we are not greedy, only that we are getting what is ours. We are becoming, as the American ways puts it, successful. In all that my limited vision can see, I am not only seeing money and the desire for it surpass that of the desire for loving humankind, but I see money or greed being lifted to a height that far surpasses our natural thought to protect against its excess.

What is the excess I speak of? Truthfully, the desire to make money and a lot of money is driven by our desire to have, which in turn is spurred on by our jealousies, our lack of confidence, our unhappiness and our desire to be loved. Simply put, no running around the bush, we are always chasing something. The very core of our human nature desires love, more than any other thing. This truth is evident in the richest to the most poor of people. It is shocking how the most poor often exemplify the truth in love and of love. As we know though, the hunger for wealth and for satisfaction at any means grows as we feed it.

I cut out bread and pasta a little while ago. In doing this, I found myself craving a lot of tasty sandwiches, burgers, pastries and so on. It’s now been over a month of eating differently and I am finding that those urges go away. I am not a stubborn and uptight person when it comes to breads and such and still could manage to eat something from time to time but my desire is changing. Just as we feed our bodies well or poorly, so too we feed our minds and our souls. What dampers the person from choosing the better, more difficult road of true self discovery, self control and self love is the easy route that exists with all the fast food, fast pleasure, fast gain and so on. It is counter culture to save money. It is counter culture to eat right. It is counter culture to be satisfied in and of yourself.

To no surprise, I am finding the mind of an average individual dulled by the bright lights of the carnival of life. Each weekend I see the mindlessness of drones and drones of dissatisfied people flooding the clubs, bars and pubs to drink away their thoughts and feelings in the company of those who wish to do the same. Carried on as tradition or commonplace rituals, this seems to not bother a soul. The week then begins again where the patron is working a job for the money’s sake, in order to afford a look or a lifestyle that exists in the mind of the ego, only to escape once again into his or her own place of comfort. All the while, money and things are capturing the attention of the one who only desires to be loved, thought of higher than an object and cared for more than a material possession. It is sometimes only in realizing our death, like Steve Jobs just did, that we see what truly matters often after it is too late to take a part in it all (albeit, Steve lived a great life).

So how do you realize your day to day habits, break your greed hungry life and smooth out the image enough to make choices for the better? How do you get debt free? How do you feel loved and appreciated without the things, the fake body modifications, the clothing? How?

I believe it all starts inside and I also know now, that it is not easy. Honesty with self and with others is a good start. Opening your eyes up in clarity through forms of sobriety is a good start. Education is a good start. Saying no is a good start. I have not the answers for you as they all come in different packages, but as I look out to the world around and marvel in its technological breakthroughs, I also retreat a bit in the knowledge of its impending collapse. No human was designed to take as much information in as we have, in the amount of time we have. No device was meant to become god in our lives, to replace common and courteous conversation and the need for physical human interaction. No amount of things will amount to satisfaction, though its dis-ease will eat at your accounts, your health and your family life! No, we were not made to serve a god of money and things. Nor were we made to serve man. We were made to serve someone higher than ourselves and higher than are fallible, selfish hearts.

These are my thoughts. This is my life. I share this with you because in the end, I too, become dust and all my stuff rots, rusts, burns and becomes trash. My soul, does not.

What the hell are you doing today to make your soul come alive? Why the hell are you living in credit debt up to your eyes and trying to grasp some air? Why the hell do you work a job that does not make you happy or chase an image that is not who you are? Why would you DARE waste time being someone else when who you were made to be is exactly what we need you to be?

STOP wasting your time chasing, devouring, lying, stealing, cheating, intoxicating your life to the pursuit that knows the same end as one who lives their truest life!!!

We all die. Most everyone of us misses the mark on truly living.

 

Start really living.

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