The Meaninglessness of Life
Even if your business of earning money, whether by job, enterpreneurship, sales, marketing, whatever, didn't actually succeed to the max, and you were merely marginally successful, you'd still want to be proud of your success, displaying the trappings you had amassed in an attempt to demonstrate your superiority over those around you.
Pride in oneself is currently the measuring rod of material success. Ego is sufficient motivation to realise the western dream, over and over again, in many cases.
Losing the Human Race
What if you spent your life becoming "successful", in as much as you dedicated your efforts to trying to get as rich and powerful as you could, so you could enjoy a big, fat ego by domineering over others, looking down your nose at the less fortunate of the world, paying employees as little as possible and making a financial killing out of all their hard work, so that you could live in luxury whilst they hardly got by, if at all? What if you achieved this and then you considered yourself to be a member of the elite, a superior person? A success!
Or what if you didn't have any employees of your own, perhaps only a few, but spent your life making a career as a entertainment columnist, a maritime engineer, a politician, a newspaper editor, an ear nose and throat surgeon, a marine biologist, a professional musician, sportsperson or investment advisor, a radiologist, a Microsoft Engineer, a chef, cook or dogwasher, a TV anchorman, a restranteur, a military officer, a construction worker, a petrochemicals executive, a smallgoods manufacturer, a pest exterminator, a receptionist, a bureaucrat, judge, barrister ...
What if you did this and then enjoyed the good things in life, travel, a nice home, a comfortable lifestyle, lots of consumer goods, socialising with others at very attractive venues, a nice vehicle, the best you could afford, private schools for your offspring, nice clothes, etc. What if you worked hard at your chosen enterprise to finance your lifestyle and engaged in all kinds of activities as recreation: sports, dining out, watching TV and films, gambling, BBQs with friends and neighbours, sailing your yacht, making model airplanes; I'm sure we could think of hundreds of examples.
What if you did this with your life when, actually, the true purpose of life was to dedicate oneself to the happiness of others and to work at becoming a better person by raising the level of your consciousness?
What if you were only supposed to work hard enough to gather enough resources to keep body and soul together, and spend the lion's share of your life's energy engaged in helping others to raise their standard of living, and their level of consciousness awareness?
Oh oh ... and
you spent your life engaged in creating largesse
for yourself.
OH SHIT!!!
Wouldn't it be really embarrasing when you came to meet your maker? Wouldn't you feel the real idiot?
Back to Bacteria
Try hard to use your superior brain to remember, because, isn't that what happened the last time you reached the end of your last human life?
Remember?
That was a long time ago, I know.
It was before you went through close to eight and a half million sub-human species whilst you earned the right to live a human life again. Try to remember, it might be important.
Joy to all beings
I absolutely adore Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce. Joseph lived in the USA from 1840 - 1904 and fiercely defended his people's home from the onslaught of the white man. Finally, in desperation he declared, "I am tired of fighting.... from where the sun now stands, I will fight no more."
