Living under your own terms when it comes to trying to beat the system is enough. Don't get caught up in the things you can't change.

submitted by HibikiBlackCaudillo from self.conspiracy

I know you've at some point felt a sense of despair because of people's apathy towards the corruption going on behind everything. It can be frustrating to think that society only continues to go downhill in a spiral towards hell while there's little you can do about it daily, but value the effort you do as much as you can.

As long as you try your best everyday then that is enough by itself. I've learned to value the simplicity of that way of life over time and I'm sure people will need this in order to build society again.

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[–]gladiretired 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Words of wisdom. Thank you.

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The most important thing to help people be happier is for us to absorb fully the fundamental meaning of the only 100% predictable event in existence: we are - each and every one of us - going to die.

No matter what we do, no matter how we act, no matter whom we love or hate, no matter whom we trust, death arrives in any case. No matter what form death takes or when it comes, it is scary.

People spend entire lifetimes trying to control the world around them to make this world less scary and less dangerous. They die the same as everyone else. Most of them are forgotten, like most people throughout history.

Your post is so important. We can never prevent this one event. Not for ourselves, nor for anyone else. Never. Events sometimes bring about concentrations of death in certain times, but everyone who dies in any given concentration of death was going to die eventually anyway. The arrangements of the groupings of death may shift, but everyone will still die sooner or later, and most of them will not be happy about it, whenever it arrives.

Trying to "prevent" death is a waste of spiritual energy. Judging events by some category "deaths involved" is equally meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

So what can we do? Just what you say here. Figure out how to spend each moment of your life in the best way possible, as judged by you. The vast majority of us possess a conscience. Keep that in mind. Work with it. Make each instant the best you know how to make it so that good is manifest.

The more good we manifest during this life (we know when we're doing this; we individually can feel it), the more we find the whole series of events meaningful.

When Life is lived like this, Death becomes an afterthought. If we die knowing we are manifesting the best we have to offer, Death is just the next event, the next challenge for us to face. Same with illness (in ourselves and in those we love) and the other myriad challenges which are part of the fabric of Life.

I agree with you completely here. Stop trying to change the world. Just live better. In itself, this is this best change each and every one of us can create in this life.