Our lives are journeys. Some are brief, others long in the tooth, but in the grand scheme of time, they are all but mere blips in eternity. Our journeys are consumed with the ups and downs of life: fleeting happiness, hardships and trials, and for some, perpetual joy. Therefore, choose a life of joy.
Of course, one may always opt for division which is a bumpy ride rife with strife.
Squandering life
With the ever-increasing technology of our day and age, many of us have become Internet nomads and are presently living a digital life. That's the way the governmental leaders want it. It's not all bad, however.
Thankfully, we still have some choices we can make, but those are also being deliberately diminished. Our world has been turned upside down, and those lives of relative comfort we once lived are gone, likely never to return in our age.
But journey on we must do. To refuse to do so is to surrender to despair. I like what inspirational author Tony Robbins had to say.
Even the Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus (from Ephesus, circa 500 B.C.), acknowledged that humans were essentially blind to their surroundings and life itself. For example, there is this quote:
We do not think about life in these terms, which is to say that we are willfully blind and arguably perhaps blind from birth. Instead, we consume what the world teaches us. If we swallow the lies emanating from the world system, we will remain blind to many important truths.
A time to ponder
There comes a time in each of our lives where we should pause from our hectic environments and ponder what journey we have charted a course for, though some folks are averse to it and consequently journey on ill-fated roads.
Heraclitus also quipped: “The only thing that is constant is change." He is right. We change, either for the better or worse, dependent on our chosen journey. If evil, then more of it, and contrariwise, if good, we pursue it, though ultimately nobody is good in the eyes of others. Indeed, there is a time for everything, as King Solomon duly noted.
Now is not the time to quit profitable journeys, but rather it is an optimal time to chart a new course away from the worldly things that consume our lives. In so doing we can reap the rewards of eternal joy.
Spot on, thanks for this one. I think I need to make some reflection soon.