How do you view this world? We all view life through different lenses depending on what float our boat. As a reflector, everyday provides a different lens to view life but in a consistent way. Searching for the meaning of life is an endless cycle and a fruitless search amidst an endless struggle of living life itself. In order to embark on this journey, you have to take yourself out of the struggles life present to you. DEATH is the answer to this search but unfortunately no one ever comes back to tell us the true meaning of life.
“HE WHO POSSESS THE TRUE MEANING OF LIFE LIVES TO TELL NO ONE.”
Is death the only answer? No, but one have to live life like a dead person by disconnecting himself from life struggles. This way is the spiritual path, the act of embedding oneself into the oneness of God. This is a journey of a life time and not one as a result of mid life crisis.
This brings me to the next question, does life experiences equate to the meaning of life? Absolutely no, it only provides scenarios for others to discuss, compare and either learn from it or reject it. The LIFE SMART ones take these scenarios and produce derivatives of these scenarios to add to their armour in the continuous struggle of life.
I’m sure am not the first person to tell you that life is a continuous struggle, even if you have everything you want or you have the world at your feet. Contentment, which is a desirable state in life also involve continuous struggle to maintain it. So no one is excluded; male and female, rich and poor. The good news is, no matter your situation “YOU ARE NOT AN EXCEPTION”.
The way an individual view life provides the foundation for his/her behaviours. Yes, some behaviours are genetic but seeing those behaviours in others reinforce such behaviours, which might be good or bad. So to effectively change behaviour, one has to review the lenses of which he/she views life. The way one view life is the pre-requisite for his/her behaviour.
“EVERY EVENT IN LIFE HAVE PRE-REQUISITES, WE JUST MEET THEM EITHER BY PLANNING OR ACCIDENTALLY”
Everything in life has a pre-requisite and the requirement has to be met before the event takes place. Even death has a pre-requisite; you have to be living for you to die.
For example, John dies as a result of getting hit by a car; the pre-requisite could be, the driver texting and driving, John walking on the zebra crossing with the thinking that the driver is required to stop by law while he is crossing but because the driver wasn’t paying attention to the road, he fails to stop and subsequently he hits John. The driver failed stop to help him and he died on the spot. Now, imagine a change in any of this event that need to happen to meet the requirement for John to die on that day such as John deciding to take taxi from his house to his destination as such he has no need for zebra crossing. You can say that’s DESTINY, and there are millions of ways John could have died on that day. But that’s not the point am trying to make here; the point is “NO EVENT IN LIFE IS IN ISOLATION, IT IS A PACKAGE THAT INCLUDES ANTECEDENT AND SUBSEQUENT”.
So, how do you view life and what do you see through your lenses. Use the simple tool below for self analyses; see what you discover about yourself. Few examples below,
Life Lens (Views) and corresponding behaviours.
• Life is not worth living – Suicidal
• Life is all about alcohol and women– Unlikely to be faithful to any woman.
The first step in changing ones behaviour is to modify his views of what his trying to change.
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