Say you take the kids to shopping, they keep bugging you to buy them a toy, since you are in good mood you decide to buy them a toy each. They all want to open the box of toy right in the store, you say no when you get home you can play.
You get in the car and they still insist to play with the toy in car, but you say no. As you get home you find out that you have company so the toys go straight to the closet kids start to play with the visiting kids and forget about the toys they have just bought, so do you.
A week or so goes by, you get a call from a charity to donate some toys. You think of donating those toys but can picture kids getting all upset if they have found out that you have given the toys away without letting them played with the toys.
God had blessed us all with a gift, and some of us put that gift on the TV, in the hope that when you get a chance you will enjoy the gift. Life gets in the way and you think that you will enjoy it on the weekend but that weekend does not come.
You say I will play with it when I get retired. As time passes, you get a call from the doctor’s office to come for further testing because they have found some thing which should not be there.
You come from the doctor’s office with the bad news and sit lifelessly in front of the TV and just stare at the gift, you feel like screaming and crying just like those kids, whom did not get to play with the toy and have to give it up.
A successful life has to be fulfilling both intellectually and physically. If with intellect you control your finance and neglect the physicality of life, like food, sex and love, you are going to miss the boat of mortality.
Become a CEO of your life so you can balance not only the financial budget, being a CEO you are responsible of all the departments of your life. You can’t just selectively fear and choose finance alone. Remember if you attain all the money you have needed but lose out on health, you can’t enjoy all that you have saved. If you are healthy and older you still know how to make money, you would be able to make it. You have to learn about all the departments of life and make sense of it all. Don’t just choose one or the other because that imbalance is far from being intellectual.
Since life is temporary, being physical is actually intellectual, so zigzag between intellect and physicality.
Everybody has a life story, which could be good or bad but it never is what it is, but how you response to it makes or breaks the individual. You can drive yourself crazy sick to control everything or accept the facts because the biggest fact is our mortality. Being temporary life can’t be sacrificed over aches and pains of internal and external problems.
If you look seriously enough, you will find that your controlling personality has a close relationship with several of your physical psychological and spiritual problems, so if you want to control, control your uncontrollable responses to your problems by keeping the knowledge of mortality in mind.
There is nothing wrong having a healthy control, just like I believe man is the driver of the car and God should be on the passenger seat to guide but never in control of man’s life because it is against the will of God. The reason God has blessed the man with the free will and a fiver (read five bucks) is that, so the man can drive the car him or herself to evolve and reach his/her potential.
If you are taught that God is doing everything, metaphorically it can be true because of the oxygen intake but what happens after you have taken in the oxygen has a lot to do with the individual’s decisions.
If you are forced to believe that you are nothing and God is everything, it has a stink of the religious politics because if God is doing everything, you need to or are expected to be subservient to God.
Since God is not physically present you have people whom are running his show and those people have a need of control, because without the control they lose not only the job they lose powers as well. It is up to the individual to recognise the politics and separate it from the personal spirituality.
If you have bought into their politics and have become subservient, you are controlled not by the God but by the few whom are the religions runners. If you are serving humanity in any way you are doing God’s work thus you are being a spiritual being. A practical help is a lot better for the God than chanting and banging your head for forgiveness of the sins you have not even committed.
Our good and bad has been changing past good things have become sin of the present and present good things have been the sins of past. Just look around, our history is full of the spiritual crimes committed by the religious people on the name of God.
Today slavery, discrimination prejudice mass murders and human rights violations are equal to the modern day sins.
If the individual keeps following the religious runners, nothing would change because of their politics of control and power. They would not want to give up their bread and butter, that is the reason everyone is so pumped up with the religious extremes and no one is even trying to consolidate or reconcile the conflicts. It is appalling to see religions preach compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love only in words and practically committing every spiritual crime under the sun. All four jewels of humanity has been stripped by extremists.
I believe, if educated, our youth can take the wind out of their sails and deny them that bread and butter by evolving beyond the boundaries of the religions of all kind and join in the individual spirituality which connects us all to each other.
As an individual we all have a temporary time on the earth, with the individual responsibility to become a CEO who just can’t afford to live life by putting it on the TV. Its one’s duty to recognize the politics of sense of belonging to a group, which makes us to put personal life on hold to fit in, impress, or be admired by the others. Live life with the philosophy of reciprocation, not just give, give, give or take, take, take.