Is there a Path?
I’m curious.
Do you think there is a path for you? In your life, are you aware of following along a way towards some kind of end or goal?
Did your goals form early in your life or did you have to work at it to find out what you wanted in life?
Or are you, like me, a drifter who found a life that was ‘good enough’ simply because I couldn’t find more pressing needs that would give me my path?
I’ve often wondered how many people fail to find their path in life. I also wonder if the increasing rage out there in our society happens, if the increased numbers using alcohol, drugs, the church or other forms of escape are doing so, because of the lack of meaningful paths for us to find.
Our society is very proud of our technological progress. Almost every views us as the pinnacle of a long line of progress from cave to shopping mall, yet even a slightly more than casual study of history will bring up indications that this is simply false-to-facts.
What if we’ve chosen incorrectly as a society? What if the path of material ownership, of instant gratification of the physical senses, is not a good way for us? We seem to be losing our sense of community; we fragment into groups based on physical things where love is not an ingredient. The village concept has been shattered on the altar of city life and we walk lonely in crowds larger than has ever been seen before.
We have people dying in our streets, overdosing on drugs because nobody has cared enough to ensure they have a life. They can’t spend because they have no money and so basic needs that were available to peasants under fiefdoms are denied them.
This is progress?
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