Horse power, cracked mirror and the happiness of a mortal CEO.

Balancing the horse power

Hypothetically speaking as a baby we start with less than one horse power and as we grow, we gain the strength to ten or more in the prime of our life. As we age we start to lose one horse at a time and go full circle to less than even one horse. In order to play the game of life successfully one has to understand the personal horse power, say if you have ten horses you can do any thing at your peak performance, but as you lose horses, if you don’t adjust accordingly aging can be  tough to deal with.

Simple truth is that you can’t play at ten horse level with less, if you have five, you adapt to that level, or you pay the price because a mortal life should be driven by the wisdom of balance. Being humble at the peak of life and appreciative of the abilities in low times is not easy, but the wisdom of balance is available for every body to keep adding happiness even during the loss, and by the way it is a choice.

From individual level to collectively we need to look at life as a mortal, because that is what we all are, and no one can or should deny that. The stories of religions, past heroes and the opposing entities  say so. From Moses, Jesus, Prophet Mohammad to Ghangaze Khan, Alexander to Hitler and any body else in that line up individually and to collectively, as Roman Empire, English Empire and others, they all had their time whether individually or collectively. The rise and fall of good and the bad to become part of history is a clear example of mortality.

History shows that we forget even the best of the humanity has to offer, so why do we do so much for our belonging groups? The reason behind all the individual actions, is the out of control and imbalanced sense of belonging, which deny the individual’s personal identity, and I personally think it is a phenomenon we need to understand more. We need to look at individual life as our personal project connected to a larger picture, but at the same time be humble so our actions don’t end up harming others in our living years or even after we pass, for the coming generations of humanity. Even today we kill each other over the differences sewed thousands years ago.  

As an individual we are a transitory entity with the far reaching impact on the others, yet we lose the importance as the time goes. If you look at the history you will see the impacts, yet no importance in the people’s life whom are too busy in their survival, because of the hard life.

We can’t have total control and security because of the mortality, whether God is in the front or the back seat of the car of your life, God is needed. We need help regardless of the number of horses, but especially when we have less horse power, like a baby needs mother, and a dying elder needs family and friends even the strangers with compassion and the higher horse power.

We do these things naturally because some one put that ability in all of us to think that way, so we can help each others. This decency is a spiritual asset, which potentially is in all of us regardless of our belief system. Whether you believe in God or not you have to realize that knowledge has not been completed, so sooner or later one can hit the situation where they feel the need of more knowledge. If you have the room to learn more you can’t be passionate or must not be sure about your existing knowledge, and yes even if it is coming from your holy books because it is important to evolve according to the present demands of time otherwise its ignorance, and ignorance is ego related and ego is one of the kids of uncontrollable sense of belonging which has nothing to do with spirituality, God or humanity, it is strictly related to group politics.

You can respect your ancestral knowledge but, you are the CEO and have your personal life with the free will which puts a lot of responsibilities on your shoulders, watch out, because you have the potential to commit spiritual crime against humanity on the name of your belonging race, gender, nation, religion or even God you perceive. If you want the proof just look around in the history and even today while the history is made. 

You don’t want to be on the wrong side of spirituality and humanity, always choose compassion over passion, spirituality and humanity over racism, nationalism and religious extreme.   

If you don’t believe in God and have some anger against God or people, you should come out and say so, but denying some thing you don’t know, or understand is egotistic. You may have more horses at present but you will lose them as well, as you age, just like every one else and eventually you will need help, unless you kill your self before that, which would not be wise because you would lack hope. Hope and God go hand in hand and if you have hope you know God whether you like it or not.

If you look at the human conditions all around the world and even around you, where ever you are, you will see people at different levels of health, finance and happiness. Interestingly you don’t have to be rich to be happy, or in better health to be richer and content than others. There is always some one worse off or better off than you out there. Why would God put people in misery?

The answer to this question is difficult but, it’s all in the attitude and the perception of the human individual. Understanding of the human attitude in the difficult times has been, is and will be a quest for the psychologists, and religious scholars, but one thing is clear that we are all different. If you find your self unhappy just look at the blessings you have and ask your self why? again and again until you reach the conclusion.

If you feel, that your life needs to be perfect and you tend to lose happiness and contentment over it, that means you put yourself in a never ending unwinnable situation. You should look at it, not as a disease but as a condition which has the potential to make you, yourself rob your own happiness and contentment out of your temporary life. Not a good place to be as a mortal. If you see yourself in this shattered glass mirror with hard to understand picture, which has been created for you, and especially if you are spending all your life in this mode, you have to understand the meanings of mortality and your belief system about God. In your condition, you, not only set yourself up, you set up God  as well  for the failure, and when that happens you are looking at God without the personal responsibilities of reciprocation, you may expect God to do everything for you but you don’t even want to reciprocate for the blessings of the oxygen you breath to experience this mortal life.

If you can’t be happy during the tests of this life, how can or would you be happy in the after life, unless you learn through this life experiences and change, you can’t be happy, yes even in your perceived  heaven.

It never is what you have or don’t have, but it’s always in that attitude towards what you have or don’t, have, so the human happiness is highly dependent on the individual’s attitude, knowledge of self and the kind of happiness you seek. Understanding self will help to describe the causes or reasons of the right or wrong attitude, and that knowledge will help to discover the differences in the core and surface happiness.

If you feel poor you don’t have the power, whether it’s physical, materiel or spiritual, your happiness will become dependent on the stuff you are lacking. For instance being physically poor will make you feel sad, but only when you compare your self with others who can do and achieve more than you can. Sure it can make one sad but it has the other side as well which can inspire one to start working out, take classes of any physical activities or start to work on one’s self to excel in what ever you can be good at. It’s a matter of attitude, you start to improve your self, or feel sorry and blame God for your limitations and get worse by staying in the sad situation. These limiting feelings have the potential to rob one’s happiness unless that one takes responsibility to adjust the attitude and take charge to become a CEO. 

LADDER OF HORIZON. (I know its a repeat but I feel the need for it.)

Picture your self climbing a ladder which has a lot of people doing the same thing. Being competitive we all want to be on the top and ahead of the other people, so you struggle to climb one step ladder at a time, hoping to get ahead and higher than every body. Time comes that you can’t climb any more regardless of your struggle and strategies, when nothing works you feel frustrated unhappy and angry, because you have lost control. If you continue to be unhappy and frustrated, you can drive yourself to sickness related to unhappiness, so it is the time to look down to see how high you have climbed. Sure there are thousands of people above you, but there are millions or even billions of them whom want to be at the level you already are, and you are still unhappy. The kicker is that you can spend your whole life trying to climb the ladder of horizon but run out of time. All along while you are too busy climbing, your life was passing you by, and then you fall regardless of the height you have climbed because of mortality. You can enjoy the climb with the enthusiasm and appreciation or spend your life in frustration while it passes, it’s all in the attitude. If you have the knowledge of other people’s comfort happiness and financial success, only then you start to feel good, bad, inadequate, sad or weak.

As the saying goes “we all are in the same boat” is not correct because each and everyone of us is, and potentially can be a CEO of his/her life.  If every body was in the same boat instead of the ladder things would be different. This ladder is a fact of life, and we need to understand it individually. There will always be levels of life you will have to climb, but remember one thing that, you personally will run out of time, so watch out for the trends, friends and the sense of belonging, they can help you rob your own happiness and contentment right out of your mortal life. That my friend is your only valuable treasure, you can’t offered to sacrifice.

Collectively we have tried and experimented with the communism and failed miserably because it goes against the nature of a CEO and it is deeply related with the flawed and political sense of belonging, which is an extreme without the balancing sense of freedom. For sure, I am a believer of personal freedom, but I know the needs and the power of the belonging as well. It is not one or the other but, it is the individual creating balance with the triangle from the top down. (The individual, Sense of belonging, Sense of freedom.) 

Since we all have been blessed with the different abilities and potentials. It is human nature to put more efforts in life to reach personal potential or to be content with whatever you have. In either case both religions and communism want to rob you of your personal potential so the power can be in the hands of governing elites. 

You can spend all your life energy to lose weight, make money or climb higher to reach in the certain bracket, and life is just passing you by. How many people above you or below you is not the main thing, it’s you who is a CEO of your life, with the responsibility of all the departments, so never compare with one side because it is not fare to you, compare with both sides. For inspiration, with the people above you and for the humbleness and appreciation of your blessings with the people below you.

As I said if we compare we need to compare both sides, so we can carry on and be happy at the same time. There is always some one worse off than others, and even the richest one can lose the health and wealth at any moment, and champions would lose to up coming ones. There is no guarantee for the richest or the strongest to have it all. You can be rich with out health or you can be strongest with out the wealth, so the responsibility is on your shoulders of to look after all departments of life.

 Comparing both sides is crucial because,  people on the higher level should give you incentive to work hard and never give up and carry on, and the people below you, should give you the satisfaction, appreciation, happiness and contentment about you present status.

Materiel happiness is connected with the strong sense of belonging, because we all want to fit in, be admired or impress others around to gain respect to feel good about ourselves. Putting others on the pedestal and yourself down as a foot mats all the time is a sign of lack of self-esteem, personal weakness and disrespect, these are counted as flaws, unless it is intentional, for the spiritual reasons. Why other people’s approval is so important to you, that you work so hard to the point that you acquire stress related health problems, and sacrifice happiness of the core, just to gain surface happiness.

The core happiness is a powerful phenomenon; it has the power to even confuse the highly educated individual. Spiritual happiness is the core happiness because serving others touches us all in the core to provide that happiness and contentment. 

Genetically we are driven to work together, our identity depends on the approval of the others, yet God created each and every one of us as a completely independent and competent CEO, even the happiness department is not so confusing when you understand the responsibilities of the CEO.

Working for humanity can bring you the core happiness, just like a mother looking after the baby is willingly sacrificing her sleep and every thing else to gain the powerful feelings of nature. Ingrained powerful nature has every creature dancing for the feelings of the core happiness. We are all compelled to do our job regardless of the level of education. Seeking happiness is wise thing to do but it is wiser to understand it like a CEO, who knows the difference in the surface and the core happiness.

Regardless of the level of intelligence, everybody is trying to achieve happiness, because deep inside we all know about the mortality. Personally I think accumulating happiness should be the top priority of a mortal life because there is no other treasure can match the fulfillment. The confusion in the types of happiness is not easy to sort out.

What is  an illusion and what is the real deal for the individual? especially when sense of belonging clashes with sense of freedom. It can cause the confusion in what is right and wrong even for the highly educated ones. That is why it’s crucial to become a CEO of your life, so you can sort out every thing and do the justice to all departments of life, including the reorganization of the power you hold as an individual (Read five bucks). Know that you can balance the people, yourself and even God. Know that nothing works without the others. God’s light can not be lit without the people and without the individual there are no people. (The triangle of human, God and people) 

The power of nature is so strong, that we follow it helplessly. Just like all other creatures, we follow these orders as well, for instance, reproduction, regardless of all the self control, law and order of the land, like China is not fool proof,  or the fear base tactics of the religions, reproduction continues, wedlock of not, kids keep coming.

Naturally we have opposing senses like sense of freedom is just as powerful as the sense of belonging, wars have been, are and will be fought for both senses. 

Sense of belonging has the power to over power anything human individual thinks or feels. The recent dispute about to stand, kneel or sit during the national anthem is a classic case of being torn between belonging to a nation, race religion or to the humanity as an individual human being.

Your mirror has been presented to you as shattered by the group politics, so you have to become a CEO to be able to see your real self. If you keep looking in the cracked mirror you would never be able to see how you really look like. Sense of belonging is exclusively and above all, for the humanity as a whole, especially if you believe genetically you are a human being.

Remember you are the one, whom has to see through the mirror even if its cracked, you have to look into it with personal belief system, so you can take responsibilities of the reciprocation. If your image is distorted you will hoard all the human resources to one percent and live politically divided life riddled with the wars and social crimes against self. Helping others is not a democratic or political thing it is spiritual thing so paying a little tax to help others even in the far lands regardless of the differences is a spiritual duty. You can’t have an Islamic, Hindu, Jewish or Christian charities, that is one hundred percent political, if you want to give to charity it should be spirituality related and spirituality has no religion, race, gender or a  nation. You just have to be able to see with the corrected lenses, vision or plain and simply fix the cracks in the mirror so you can see the human being. 

We have come up with self denial, and several religions for the civilization. We have learned about boundaries, manors, etiquette, ethics and social rules. All the knowledge to prevent pregnancies and the weapons for abortions, even the threat of aids and death could not stop human from following the nature.

We create rules against anything just for the people to break them. Since the down of the civilization, we have been struggling for the control as a society and as an individual as well, if we were to be successful by now we should have been. Society should be crime free and the individual should be super human, with total control of his/her actions.

Population would be in control and for sure there would not be any wars. Just by looking at the history, you can see regardless of wars, population has always been out of control, just like the spider, human is reckless enough, to keep reproducing, whether its aids or God, the drive behind our nature is so powerful, you just can’t stop it by fear of self destruction or death.

The connection with nature is not as clear as we think we do, we need to learn more about ourselves to understand the power and the wisdom of the animal inside of every human.

If you have inner peace instead of struggle, you will be able to see, how you act like a puppet. Whether its rules of society or the competing nature, still in the end of the day you are the one who is responsible for your own actions and inner peace simultaneously.

By becoming responsible CEO can and should help to understand the contradictions of the cracked mirror and finding the solutions for this temporary life and whatever is beyond. Sure you can have the society with less crime ratio, by strict punishments, but you always run the risk of rebellious behavior of human, because of the oppression. The real disciplined human being is the CEO who creates balance between inner man and the beast, to achieve the inner peace. With inner peace one can understand nature and respect it, yet have a say in every day life to achieve happiness, health and success of a mortal being.