When people do not understand the meaning of life. Part II

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Two years have passed since the publication of the first part … why so long? Because the second part didn't work out for me, but a few days ago I finally understood what the reason was - and everything worked out right away. This is the reason I am writing now.

We see completely different people around us, and we evaluate them from the standpoint of our own ideas, which often seem clear to us, and therefore often fall into the trap of speculation and false assessments … not understanding someone else's meaning of life.

Let's say we are dealing with a person: an ordinary person with a fairly good job, has a family, some belongings, lives normally, "like everyone else." And so, such a person sees in front of him a homeless person lowered into unnaturalness. What thoughts will usually rush through his head? Probably, he will think that the homeless person is very saddened by his way of life and would like to somehow get out of his beggarly state, but at the sight of the bottle in his hand, the person understands that the homeless person chose his own path, and if he wanted to get out, he would start with in order not to drink alms, but to collect for something more useful, for example, for food. Apparently, our observer will decide that the bum somehow in the past simply spent his life on drink - and stayed on the street … but even if not, it will still seem clear that the poor fellow drove himself into poverty. And that this is bad for him …

I do not even know with which mistakes in the previous paragraph to start, there are so many of them. I'll start with the last one, from which all the rest will be clear to the reader: our homeless person is bad.

From an emotional point of view, it can be really bad for him, especially when our observer, who has a different lifestyle, evaluates everything from his position that is much more favorable for satisfying his needs. From the point of view of the meaning of life, a homeless person is not bad, but good, because he receives feedback for some of his past affairs, and maybe, if he follows certain religions, he works out his past karma, courageously going through the path of begging to develop certain skills. At this stage of his development, our beggar, quite possibly, is at the peak of the current stage of his development, preparing to take the next step - and maybe tomorrow he will throw away the bottle, understand that God always helps those who want to improve, and "accidentally" will find a way work, making it possible not only to get imbued with business, but also to make money on decent food and less worn-out rags. Step by step, a person has the opportunity to go his OWN path, SELFLY making a choice at each step, and just as INDEPENDENTLY receiving feedback from the World in which he lives.

The beggar's emotions show him that not everything is good in his life, and his motives do not fully correspond to the Providence of God. Conscience and shame force you to think about what is EXACTLY wrong and what needs to be rethought. To do it or not to do it is a person's choice, and the consequences of this choice are reflected in his life. What should a person understand? Why did he find himself in such a position to understand this? How he will understand this is his business, but not the business of an outside observer, whose meaning of life may be somewhat different.

Remember this story (not canon text)? Jesus and the disciples saw a man who had no legs from birth. The disciples asked: "Why does he have no legs?" Christ replied: "If he had legs, he would have passed the whole earth with fire and sword."

Ask yourself: can you see so deeply the reasons why a person should go exactly the path that he is going through? I am convinced that every person, being in certain life circumstances, should understand that these circumstances are the most convenient for development, it is THESE circumstances that reveal a certain problem that needs to be solved in order to become better. Incorrect emotional and semantic structure in the spirit of "well, hurt yourself!" will not help to solve the problem and become better, but acceptance of the conditions as they are, and subsequent reflections from the standpoint of God-centrism, will lead a person to happiness (happiness here should be understood as participation in a single process of harmonious development of the Universe … or the kingdom of God on Earth through the efforts of the people themselves under the guidance of God).

So, an intermediate conclusion: you cannot know either all the reasons or the completeness of all the circumstances in which the other person is, and therefore you can only evaluate his life very approximately. You should realize that his life is HIS life in the first place, and it is IN HER that he works out something specific for him personally. If you are an oligarch, and he is a homeless person, it is still unknown which of you is in a sadder situation.

If you are doing great and you live in comfort, and he is a slob and a loser living in a mess, then do not rush to believe that he is in worse living conditions. You need to do something in life, but he is another matter. For this you are given your resources, skills, abilities, and he is given his. Each soul that has entered the material world develops in those conditions in which it would be best for this soul to develop. And one can only admire the greatness of the intelligence that organized the joint process of this development in the interaction of souls on Earth.

Now, from the position of these reflections, I return to the first part of my article and, with horror for myself, discover … such hasty and superficial assessments of the life of other people, which I am now criticizing! The people whose activities are given there as examples are engaged in a certain type of creativity. At that time, it seemed to me personally that this was all complete nonsense. Well, yes, well, yes, I am, apparently, an expert in the field of creative self-development and I can offhand the short description say nonsense or not nonsense. In other words, the observer, if he does not understand the meaning of life, may not understand the simple fact that he does not know someone else's meaning of life. But remember how I wrote in the first part:

the answer to the question about the meaning of life is well known to me, at least I think that it is good

Well at least I made the slip "I think it's good", otherwise I would not forgive myself for that.

If you read further my criticism of these people, you will see an example of arrogant superficial judgment of others. So I thought that by that moment I got rid of this arrogance, nevertheless, it continued to work through the unconscious, preventing me from seeing the real meaning of the process of creative cognition and forcing me to give such assessments. The fact is that the same motives can give rise to different final options for their implementation, and vice versa: the same options for the implementation of something can have different motives. What is the motive of the person who made a self-propelled combat unit out of 20 tons of snow? I DO NOT KNOW! If he wanted to show off, he will undoubtedly receive (or received) negative feedback. If he wanted to practice his skills in working with snow before the festival of snow and ice sculptures in his city, this is another matter, for which he will also receive (or receive) some kind of feedback. If he wanted to decorate the yard, at the same time tighten up his physical shape and show an example to the children - this is also another matter, but no matter how many motives I count now, this is NOT MY BUSINESS for sure. You need to specifically talk with a person to find out his real motives, and then if he himself understands them.

Now I am convinced that creative development and knowledge of the world around us through creativity is almost the only correct path in this life. That is, this or that form of art is strictly obligatory for a person. But how a person will determine this form for himself and how he will move along this path (even if this is a variant of degradative art) is his business.

Once again, the same thought for consolidation: the process of creative development can take different forms, behind which completely different motives can be hidden, judging by these forms means not understanding the meaning of life, during which each person goes his own way, working out in interaction with other people, their qualities, deluding themselves and understanding, rethinking and retraining, degrading and developing … all these are just parts of a single eternal life in an endless cycle of rebirth, the rules of the Game, if you like. In other words, life is a practical exercise in testing the qualities of the soul for compliance with their righteousness (righteousness is the morality chosen by God), a testing ground, equipped with safety rules and mechanisms that allow these rules to be understood. And we all train at this training ground, testing some of our qualities.

So, in this article, I introduced you to another category of people who do not understand the meaning of life: they are those who have taken on the role of assessing judges, looking at the lives of others in the same way as the author of the previous part of this series of articles, they say, they are do not understand what they are doing, but I just understand.

Sergei Viktorovich in the picture above, undoubtedly, also meant me. Such a simple phrase, and how much deepest meaning there is … Just two words … and two whole years to understand them.

Maybe after some time I will understand something else?