Are we lost?

I think most of us look at life and think, "There has to be more"

What if this is because Society has taught us the wrong lessons? Lessons that religion practiced properly teach us. Teach us how to have a life of meaning and growth. 

But instead we have been taught to work hard with no purpose or with little purpose. To only work for money or stuff that has little meaning to us sometimes even 6 months later. Stuff that now just cost us more every week, month or year. Stuff that we can easily live without.

We have convinced ourselves that we need this stuff. The bigger tv, the house too big for just us. The car that stretches us to work longer hours. The smartphone that we have to have on us all the time. 

But having more stuff has not made us happier. It has actually made us more miserable.  

Then on top of that, we notice we are depressed. So we go to therapist to help us heal. We go to them for decades just to survive life. More money down the drain jist to be happy. 

Those therapist generally tell you to focus on yourself and not others. When that advice needs to be on the other way around. You only find joy in life when you have connections with others. 

But now the world has told you a digital connection is all you need. But once again the world is wrong. You need people the physically be there with you. 

Then the world has pushed for you to enjoy being single. We see this in current dating where we are just as divided as men and women as we are as Democrats and Republicans.  Everyone is blaming the other side and not taking any blame on themselves. 

We listen to Society and we have become more depressed and more separated from others. Many of our friends we do not know personally. But only digitally.  We have become awkward socially which takes us away from religion gatherings. 

When we do go out, we are just looking for fun. To let our spirit release some of that pent up energy. Then we get into pointless relationships that one or both leave hurt. We leave regretting our decisions or questioning even the good ones. 

We have jobs we hate only to be a paycheck. The company we are with either does not have a vision or has a vision we do not believe in or do not support. 

We have allowed our government to manipulate and poorly manage currency where not only do we need to work longer hours. But also we have to have 2 people incomes to even survive this current society.  It has even got to the point where a 2 person income is not enough for the average couple.  

We have pushed women away for being mother's. We have lied to them that a career is what will give them meaning in life. When a career is a dead end for most women. Most career women once they hit early to mid 30s have a strong desire to leave the working world. But then you have the 1% of women that say they are happy and thar every woman should be happy. Just another lie society has told us. 

What we need is our society to move away from massive corporations and more into private ownership. That will hurt the stock market, but put the money into the middle classes hands. 

We need to stop attacking women with guilt trips, when they say they want to be a stay at home mother. Or even a mother that only wants to work part time. 

We need to teach and enable men to learn how to and have a desire to be a protector of his woman. To find a woman that fits his life. To be a Strong man both mentally and physically. To have a vision for his life and see further than 5 or 10 years. But looks to the very end of his life.  Not only about his career prospects.  But also long term family prospects. Learn how to keep his woman happy, but not to treat her like she is better than you or give her reason to look down on you. 

Women need to learn how to treat a man. Understand a man does not want the same attention you do or the attention you give your girlfriends.  Learn how to teach a man how to love you. Learn to clearly communicate your hopes and dreams in a relationship. Don't tell him your plans, work with him how you will schedule your plans. When he is actively involved in the decision making of your social life, he will be happier and you won't have to constantly remind him of what you planned for him. 

 Generally a woman is the imaginative side of a relationship when the man the structured. 

You both need your time to play and relax. Sometimes together sometimes separate..

We need to learn religious teachings. Even if you are not religious.  They have deep in them lessons learned throughout history. Sometimes more straight forward and some you will have to grow to understand. Even if you say you are a Athiest you still have a lot to learn. Religion is a much deeper topic than what even the most studied person could ever fully understand.  

These are just some starting things, to make the world a better place. We are learning something in life.  Even when you make a solid decision, learn to be open to other ideas. Not to change your decision,  but to get a better understanding.  

Rethinking how things are done.

20 years ago I started asking "why?".

 It's been a slow learning process. But I have learned a lot over two decades. 

I asked about marriage and have received some answers. 

I asked about government foreign policy and received answers. 

I asked about income taxes and sales taxes and received answers. 

I asked about physical health and received answers. 

I asked about many things. Most often up front I had people put their hands up to stop me from looking further. First it was friends and family. Saying that's just the way things are. Marriage fails because the man failed what what I was told. But not the answer I found. 

Foreign policy the way the United States did it for 60 or more years, was just the way it had to be done. But I learned that was just another lie. Lies that got us into wars and got other nations to hate us. 

Income tax I asked why we had to pay it. I was told it was just the way things had to be done.  This was a lie. A lie told by a bloated and poorly managed government.  A lie passed on by the so called highly educated. And then a lie further passed on by the every day man and woman. 

I was told for decades about how we should do physical health. Only lift heavy weights and to be skinny eat only vegetables and starve yourself.  This was another lie passed on by the system. 

Our system will grab onto and sell us lies, that then we also pass along ourselves and then enforce on others. 

Outside the box thinking and going to the core of the question and building it back out is what needs to be done with almost every facet of our lives. 

Simplify everything we do. Stop thinking it has to be complicated. It only needs to be complicated for very specific things. But not everything.