For Love or Money - Life 101 Lecture

So this is where we find ourselves. Holding ourselves back because we want to be handed our dreams. Of course we are young and we want everything. Big things, expensive things, the best things, adoration, home, family, and most of all a life to be proud of. But it is true when they say, anything worth having is worth fighting for. So then it becomes a question of what do we want. But I think we might need to take a step back from that and ask ourselves what is it that we need.

So what is it that you need?

For Love of Money

One thing we all want is money. How else do we provide for ourselves? We all need to eat, and be clothed. But what else do we need? entertainment. That is, we need mental stimulation. And as americans we get all of our stimulus from entertainment. But it costs. As social creatures, we desire to have contact with the things that exist in the world around us. But phones cost, internet costs, places to go out to cost. strange thing is, it didn't used to. way back when man was a nomad, he walked to where he needed to go. He took what he needed to sustain himself from the environment around him (this is why we have the appendix, to digest nut shells). And when the place he was couldn't provide for him anymore, we used his legs to move on.

But this is the future.

We spend our days behind machines trying hopelessly to find what we need without getting up to go. Of course it is convenient to order what you want online, to talk to people over aim, to email instead of write. It's no big surprise then to see that people are starving for attention. we are a generation raised by machines. So now that we are adults we are filled with a drive to do what is natural to us. We can look back at our childhoods and revel in horror at how very little interaction we actually received. So the country has all these young adults trying to get out there, to return to themselves, to do what comes naturally to them. Luckily (for who? i don't know), we have boundless energy. So we thrust ourselves into these endeavors and never get out of them what we have been seeking. Man is a social creature because what he gives is almost always returned to him. That is, if he is working within the community. we pass energy around in small groups. Anything that means something is the response of the world around you. As humans our world is mostly focused on other humans, but also other animals. Dogs, Cats, Birds, and a slew of rodent creatures can benefit from what we naturally provide. It is companionship, a real life interactive culmination of events. Behind every event stands a person. And what drives a person is his own will to live.

Now is where we get to the core of the problem. We have been raised to believe that life is what happens outside of work. Truth be told, life happens every moment you are alive. Depression, Joy, Anger, Frustration, Compassion are all part of the grand makeup of our lives. These things happen. Life happens. But at work we must do our jobs, turn away from ourselves, do nothing to rock the boat or help people enjoy themselves. No we sit in cubes blocked off from our fellow man, and expected to get the project done. Well we have to don't we? I mean if we can't live while we are alive, then we need to live when we aren't working. This is where we got the misconception that Living Costs. Living is free, Stuff costs. When we are unable to separate the idea of Life and Money then we deny what comes most natural to ourselves as creatures. Creatures have needs which must be met. The very idea that life happens from 5 to 9 is pure crap. I want to live while I am alive. Until I know how to grow my own food I have to depend on the corporations to provide for me. But the corporation doesn't do anything for free. So you must work at the corporation, let them pay you to not live, and then try to sustain yourself by providing your body it's basic needs.

Let's not forget about the thinking mechanism that drives us. This is what makes us need one another, our poor brains. This is what breeds in us the desire to be needed. we provide and we take from one another naturally. It is our fellow man that gives us the last bit of simulation that makes life possible. We connect with one another on a level far above touching. We have a social consciousness that connects all of us to one another. This is how you can know what someone is feeling when they don't express it obviously. Unfortunately we have spent so much time trying to connect with machines, which were never built to give back to us, that now we don't know how to connect with one another. So when we get into one another's consciousness without asking "permission" or "entering your name and password" then we feel a burden. But there is one thing that lets us feel unobtrusive. That is sharing in something with one another. We automatically turn to entertainment, which by it's modern nature, costs us Money. We are willing to pay for admittance into someone else's life. And we feel since we are forced to work for money, denying ourselves our life, that the things we buy are owed to us. The human condition seems to be in disarray. We have gotten to the point that we don't know how to be honest unless we do it behind the mask of money.

But I want all of us to remember one thing about humanity. we provide for one another with the traits we were born with, we don't ask for return, we don't expect to be paid back. We help, and in that helping we experience the ability to overcome obstacles. One thing the human likes more than anything else, is winning. We are a team, a group, a community. Be an individual as far as it satisfies yourself, that individuality will come in handy sooner or later, but use it for the good of the whole.

For Love not Money

I'm gonna be quite clear on this right from the beginning. Love is not hard to understand. Love is your ability to move beyond your personal piddley grudges to accept a person for who they are. Love is the absence of all negative feelings and has the ability to stave off bad feelings or misfortune which might be headed your way. Basically, it is pure positive thought and emotion. While experiencing love, life is perfect.

Money can't buy you love, Given the choice people would prefer connecting with one another over having things. so why is it we don't just share the love? Why don't we hug the people we see on the street? How dirty do we think people are they they are unworthy of our attention?

The lack of love a person feels is caused by both the community at large and the individual himself. When a person shares his love and is rebuked for it, they are most likely to close up from sharing the one thing we make naturally. Thats right people, what we as humans do best is love. You could assume that the Human is a Love Machine. We create inside ourselves the ability to go through life unharmed, and we share this ability with one another, and it builds and grows and protects the whole. And it works the same way zero point energy does. if you let it run free, it will build on itself. Now there are all kinds of humans o this earth, and there are some who embrace themselves completely, and just let the love flow. These people are well loved. They can inspire even the most slowed down love machine to performing at maximum efficiency. but when we all don't take our own role to keep our own love building, these people are burdened, and can burn out. When the community doesn't have the ability to inspire that person's heart to start back up, it really strains the individual and the community as a whole. One way to be assured that you are doing your part to keep us all unharmed, is to give into love. I know this argument sounds circular, but stay with me.

Imagine you are having an ok day. Someone comes along and flashes at you a smile brimming with joy. Well that inspires your little love core to give a little back. So you smile back. And then they smile at someone else, and you smile at someone else, and look we got four people buzzing with love. Strangely enough, that comes easily to us. It takes great mental focus to keep yourself angry at another person, but almost instinctively, joy breeds joy without much effort. and when you feel that happiness inside of you, and it is returned to you all around you, you just keep rising up that goodness ladder until you are walking on clouds.

I don't know how to stress this enough, but good feelings just happen.

I do believe I was at a McDonald's in Springfield and on the menu was "smile." under the cost section, there was nothing written. Smiles are free. and what is the return on a smile? good feelings. good feelings create good times. nothing I have ever purchased has given me the same full bodied satisfaction of an honest smile. The ability to share this with another individual is the first step in getting close to them. Isn't that what we all want? Someone who we can be with to love who will return our love, so completely, that we spend our days laughing?

But due to some misconceptions about the value of ourselves and what we assume we deserve from one another, we expect to be provided for. To be loved without doing anything to receive it. When the world around us doesn't automatically welcome us with open arms, we feel robbed. We place blame on the community for not caring about us, and decide we are unworthy of love. SO when something comes along that can love us, instead of sharing a pure emotion, we pull on them, dragging them down to sit in pity land with us.

But what fun is sitting in a mud puddle? If you feel cheated by people, lost without love, Then you need to get yourself back up. Look to your friends. There might not be someone there to lift you up, but why do we have hands arms, legs and feet? You cannot wait for someone to bring you up. You can't expect anyone to help you. It is not that they don't care for you, but this a hard lesson to learn about love. You have to do it yourself first. Then take it to the community, and spread it around. Then next time you fall down, there is someone there to help you up. And that in itself can fill anyone with such joy that their love centers can go on buzzing for hours, days, months, or lifetimes.

Now, it is True that money can provide the means to airlift you out of sinking sand, but what candle can that hold to the face of a dear friend and their out stretched arm? Love always wins. And with love we always win.


Homework:

What is it that you need?

What is it that you want?

Where is it that you are?

Where is it that you want to be?