Living The Life

Would I want a world where there was no unemployment? A world where people would not dwell on the affairs of any one man or care about what he did in his private life? We go for sensationalism and the current buying and selling is never ending. Sometimes I would just like to hang up my rat race clothing and just enjoy life for what it was meant to be without everything that we conditioned it to be based on using people or tearing them apart. But that is the world of ideal souls who would probably be the ones finding themselves on boats to some secluded paradise whenever there is too much salt in their food, too many people to be accountable to and to much paper to chase for the corporate good.

I see that I still live in a world where I have a choice, I can stay at home and go to school to learn something I have not done but would benefit from or I can offer my services overseas for some volunteer group in a country where there are not enough beds for patients or no beds, period. I can vote for people who I would want to elect and even though their leadership does not bring much change and we still fight undeclared wars it is better than having a mullah commanding me to be god fearing. So I must be living in some kind of paradise compared to the lawlessness of refugee camps and vigilantes that offer to protect your business under the threat of reprisals if you do not pay up first.

There would be no place for feminism, no need if there is no man’s world, women could decide from day one whether or not to have children and couples could decide if they have to have certain ceremonies that have been washed over during the past few centuries here at home. People would see the person for what he is and not his clothing, state of living, or manner of which he chooses to live. We like to pretend we all get along, but make friends with others living under similar circumstances. Getting out of your comfort zone is painful for many.

Maybe this is somewhat like a Utopia although it is not stress free and heavenly. The fact that I have a relative amount of freedom and can choose my work hours too, should alleviate some of the anxiety over not having those material benefits that others crave. And there are those spiritual ones that money cannot buy whether one is inside or out of the promised land. One has to find peace and comfort in himself wherever he is, instead of externalizing the issue of needing to find a utopia.

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