Many people in this world are all alone. They have “cut the umbilical cord” from their parents and live, think, and thrive alone. Some have left the safety of their parents for different reasons; shame, embarrassment, differences, death, to search, or maybe there wasn’t safety at home to begin with. When you don’t have the safety you realize that we are all alone. We are born into this world and when we lose our families, we are in a world full of strangers. Actually, we are among strangers from the day we’re born. We don't know our parents and they don’t know us. In time we meet them and learn their personalities. Some of these people are good, and some are bad. We either end up being friends with these people or hate them. Or, possibly develop a student/teacher relationship where we both understand that we aren’t compatible, but the parent will help us learn the ways of the world.

Very few of us know what the hell we’re doing here.

It’s so hard to see the truth. I don’t think we can be taught to see it, we just have to see it already. However, I think some are able to see the truth, but just don’t know how or where to look. Should someone that’s been here before show these new people where to look? Would that help or hinder the people of the world? Should someone help make this world a better place to live or just not get involved with it?

Now, this seems like an easy question to answer; obviously yes. However, several things come to my mind when I consider this question: first of all, is it defeating the purpose of this world to make it more pleasant? Is this a hell where we are put to feel pain in order to pay off karma? And if it remains a miserable place, won’t it drive man to search for a way out and towards god (or to a better place than here)? If so, I think it’s better to make it worse (or at least leave it how it is and have faith that the creator is in charge and knows what he’s doing). Someone once told me that most people only really think of god in the face of death, pain, or despair. I don’t want to make this world a better place if it means people may forget about god.

Second of all, how would we “make this world a better place”? Do we plant trees, save whales, fix the economy, move more people into the middle class, legalize everything, illegalize everything, protect, fight, lie or speak the truth? Once we have decided which is the right thing to do we have to finally think of how well our actions will affect the world. Or to put it a better way: Is it even possible to make the world a better place? Can it be done? If so think of how this perfect world will be. Picture the outcome of our actions in your head. Will everyone be happy everyday? Free of hate, jealousy, stereotypes, handicapped children, meat, fat, ugliness, classes, politics, preservatives, gravity, etc…? Or will the world be perfectly balanced, with the correct amount of bad equaling that of the correct amount of good?



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