Everything Not Anything

Everything makes me wonder about life these days. I keep asking why is it so screwed up and if it has meaning, which we are not seeing. I am beginning to feel we should not look for the truth, but maybe the truth is everything we do and everything we think. The truth may not be a glorious revelation as we think it is and we may be missing the answer because it's right under our nose. The answer may be not to question but to live.

If we accept more and deny less then we are in a better position to feel we are part of the Universe. The problem with most of us is that we look for a mould and then try to fit into it. The Universe is not a mould and trying to fit into one in unnatural. I think this is why we feel uncertain and fearful, even when we shout out to the World, "my mould is the only true mould, my belief is the only true belief." As someone once said, I don't believe in anything, I believe in everything. That may be the answer, even if you didn't ask the question.

The Pessimistic Idealist

What do you call and optimist with pessimistic tendencies? Me. I am a believer who doesn’t know what to believe. I would feel better about looking for the answers if I was surer about the questions. Naturally, I am looking for the truth but I am aware that if I found the truth it might be of no use. This is the pessimist in me speaking today, or is it the realist. Nevertheless, I can be an idealist at times.

A Simple Truth

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals

Arrogance

The dictionary defines arrogance as - overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.

You can look at arrogance in many ways but anyway you look at it arrogance is undesirable. There are many reasons why people are arrogant and some of these would be pride, sense of superiority, lack of respect for others, ignorance of the World, fear, insecurity and the one common to all arrogant people, stupidity. The dictionary also defines character as moral or ethical strength, and arrogance devalues character in the same way as vanity devalues beauty.

Naturally, arrogance is sometimes a perception but the type of arrogance I am referring to here is the chronic, full-blooded, I-am-better-than-you, type of arrogance. This arrogance does nothing to make the world a better place and it actually contributes to the problems of the world by being a medium for hate and resentment.

Until a person can cure the world of all its ills, hate, resentment and destruction, then, and only then can a person have the smallest of reasons to be arrogant. And I am sure such a person would not even know what arrogance is because he, or she would be absorbed in meaningful actions. Yet, everyday, we see people parading up and down, high on their self-inflated egos, ignorant of their ignorance and signaling to the world that they are the cure for all problems. But the irony of arrogance is that the arrogant thinks he is the answer when in fact he is the problem.