Reality of human existance

For all the things that appear to make sense to us we must never forget the reality of our existence. We can pretend to our hearts content that we live in a neatly ordered and tightly orchestrated world, but the real inescapable truth is that we are living on the thin premise that shit will not go wrong on our watch. This world we live in is temporary; the things we claim to own are not ours to keep. There is absolutely no point in getting too attached to inanimate objects and false claims of glory because in the end they will leave you. Fortune is not ultimately something we can harness and master. We claim small victories from the fates and we call that success, but the truth is we exaggerate who we are and what we have become. We puff out our chests in some sort of bizarre and antiquated mating ritual, but in the end these displays are only weak symbolic features of our condition. In a chaotic world there is absolutely no reason to stay on the straight line. A life spent following a predictable path without any diversion is a life that will soon be forgotten once it is extinguished. Most of us live this life. We make way through our time without wondering about anything more than what it takes to get through the day. We are in a constant cycle between pining for pleasures and working for them. When we got them we are often not satisfied. We are trained to this type of life where we seek pleasure endlessly, programmed to be controllable through the infinite pursuit of more. The reality is that there is more out there for us beyond the material. By recognizing that the only thing that keeps us from being truly free men and women is the hunger for false glory and material wealth we can perhaps shed the blinders and see who we really are. When the cycle of unending consumption is broken, when we are given the time to appreciate what can truly make us whole and happy individuals we will be able to see what is real and true about ourselves. We walk straight lines in a chaotic world because we fear that deviation from the path will be our destruction. There may be some truth to this. If we stop consuming, if we stop listening to the larger story there is no guarantee that the end result would be better. I do not advocate bringing society to an end at all. I simply mean to say that it is important to see past the material, and to see past the false glory. If we can be honest with ourselves and with each other for a change, if we can give away some of the hunger to be the alpha dog we might head in a direction that exposes the fact that we have been intentionally pitted against one another for the gain of others. If we can get there perhaps we can live differently, perhaps even love and own things differently. We live in an undeniably violent, unfair and chaotic world. Yet we feel shielded from the outside by the story we have been brought up in. However, the reality is that behind the story we are not truly safe, and we are not truly free. The story pre-determines that most of us will live in mediocrity, and destines us to be faceless numbers. We are told directly and indirectly how to live, how to think, who to fight, and what to aspire to. This is not freedom; this is freedom in a can sold for our consumption to keep us in walking straight lines. We need to take the power back; we need to confront the chaotic world by embracing it instead of being enslaved by those who claim to have mastered it for us. The undeniable first step in doing so is to recognize that we do not own what we think we do, including ourselves. www.PassNurseExams.com