This World Was Not Made For You!

If we must cohabitate, we must learn to look outside of ourselves.

The day we realize that this life wasn’t built for us is the day we engage ourselves in reality. I’m speaking of the selfishness “us”, the need to fill our pockets, our barns, our stomach, house, garage, etc.

One day we look back on life and realize that we have surrounded ourselves in things, material possessions, stuff that fulfills nothing but a temporary pleasure for the times we choose to spend with them.

After we put our “toys” in the garage, within minutes the emptiness comes back in. We wander over to the refrigerator or cookie jar to temporarily fill another void, then sit in front of the television, computer, or smartphone to kill the “dead space” that would exist if our entertainment was unavailable.

One “thing” after another… one mind-numbing event or catatonic bubble of unconsciousness after another until it’s time for bed.

The weekend comes and the routine changes but the outcome is usually the same. A sad existence of self-gratification & a quest to “make it through another day”.

Relationships are nothing more than another avenue to again, fill our voids, never really going below the surface because that would entail compromise or engagement. Using them to further our agenda of self.

We don’t want to be alone; we need them to get more of what we want, they make our lives easier, and to justify it, we throw in a few quick “pat me on the back” duties to make ourselves look good to others, then back to our “me” routine.

If this sounds all too familiar, here are some suggestions:

• Make it a point to engage physically, face to face, instead of Facebook to Facebook.
• Spend time with friends and family, do something for someone else other than yourself.
• Schedule time to pick someone up and take them to lunch.
• Go sit with someone and watch the sunset or sunrise.
• Stop and watch a bug do what it does for a few minutes.
• Practice being thankful for what you already have.
• Stop wanting others to give up their time for you and give yours to someone else.
• Take the long way home or a completely different way altogether.
• Listen to music in the dark while lying on the floor.
• Take a whole day and walk barefoot.
• Compliment a complete stranger.
• Pay it forward.
• Smile at everyone you see.
• Leave early & drive slowly.
• Let someone go ahead of you in line.
• When you talk to someone, actually listen to them and be interested in what they have to say without waiting to interject your opinion, look at things through their eyes whether or not you agree with them.
• Challenge yourself to make it through an entire day without complaining about anything.
• Point out someone’s strengths, not their weaknesses.
• Make someone laugh.
• Stop thinking about ways to make yourself happy and try to make someone else happy, and you’ll find that it makes you happy in the process.
• Look outside your world, there are free resources in this life called love, peace, mercy, grace, compassion, joy, etc. and the more you give away, the more you have to give. Those resources are inexhaustible and it doesn’t cost you a dime to give any of those away.
• So, give freely and give often.

You have the choice between good and bad, positive and negative, right and wrong, life and death in any and every situation, circumstance, or occasion you find yourself in.

Make the best out of this life by being conscious of every thought, action, reaction, and interaction you have with someone else.

Think about what the best and most productive decision is whenever you face another obstacle or adversity and then make that choice to move forward.

Your life is up to you, the more selfish you are the more unhappy you are, the more selfless you are the happier you are. It’s a simple choice but you must break those old habitually negative conditionings you’ve been wallowing in and get into life.

Choose Love, Choose Life.

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Rick