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Why do organic farmers actually have to pay for not polluting the environment with poisons?
Why is so much money actually invested into the research on growing genetically modified food when it could instead be used to preserve our planet?
Why do you actually not get a bonus from the health insurance – which is a duty in this country – for a healthy lifestyle like, for example, eating organically grown and healthy foods?
Why does chemically synthesized medication actually most of the time cause less costs for the patient than gentle, natural alternatives which often are at least as effective and come with much fewer side effects?
Why do many alcoholic drinks in a lot of pubs actually cost less than most of the alcohol-free drinks?
Why is cannabis in many places actually a forbidden intoxicant while the use of alcohol and tobacco is permitted?
Why did it actually take so long for the electric car to be advertised?
Why do many buses of the public traffic system in most cities actually drive with gasoline and not, for example, with hydrogen?
Why is money actually still invested in nuclear power plants rather than being used completely for renewable energies?
Why do people actually sell real estate on the moon while we have such a beautiful earth to maintain and share?
Why are people actually still going to war?
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Are you sometimes wondering about things like that, too?
Are you ready to shine a bright light of awareness on the path of beingness, today?
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Much love,
Steffi
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Hello Steffi,
It’s not “sometimes” that I ask these questions it is probably every day! When I was in my mid 40’s I was made redundant from a 30 year career with no future in the same area of work. In the 20 years since then, up until retirement at 65 I had 6 different jobs! One survives, but it certainly takes its toll.
I once used to think that in my hand I had a map of the world around me; there was the school, there the church, there the hills. After redundancy when I looked at the map, those landmarks weren’t in the places I thought they should have been; I was disoriented. Since retirement, the map that was once in my hand now lies in the gutter, wet and torn and illegible; I was lost!
I’m not sure that a map is useful anymore but I am in the process of re-evaluating my life and my direction.
“………..In order to arrive there,/ To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,/ You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstacy./ In order to arrive at what you do not know/ you must go by a way which is the way of ignorance./ In order to possess what you do not possess/ You must go by the way of dispossession./ In order to arrive at what you are not/ You must go through the way in which you are not./ And what you do not know is the only thing you know/ And what you own is what you do not own/ And where you are is where you are not.” From East Coker by T.S. Eliot.
With love, peace and in friendship.
Ashley
Dear Ashley,
Thank you so much for sharing so openly your life experience. It is much apprechiated.
In German we have this saying that seems to fit regarding that map of life:
Firstly it comes differently and secondly than you think.
Frankly, I sometimes wonder if this idea of needing to have a map in life was some sort of mal-information to keep people inside their boxes where they are easier to controll. For me, at least, those maps never worked, either. How shall we ever find a new road if we always follow those well trodden paths, anyways?! 😉
Feeling lost as you described it is very stressful. I can ensure you, though, that you are not alone. I now am in my early 40’s and, I feel just as lost; not for the first time in my life, either. I know people of younger and higher ages, who are feeling lost, too. It seems to be a phenomenon of our times. In fact, I get the impression that the process of re-evaluation which you are describing, above, is a world event and we are all in this, together.
Oscar Wilde once said:
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
So, maybe it is a good thing that we feel discontent with things. Maybe this helps us to change something for the better.
I have to admit, though, that, personally, I am getting tied of feeling that way.
I love the passage by T.S. Eliot which you quoted! So true, so encouraging and definitely food for thought.
Keep breathing, dear Ashley and have courage. We are on the verge of an enormous shift. Not alone but all-one.
Much love,
Steffi
A bit obvious I know but without that tension/stress in a situation there is no movement, and if there is movement there are reactions which cannot be foreseen.
Hi Dear Ashley!
Ooops, I meant:
“I have to admit, though, that, personally, I am getting *t i r e d* of feeling that way.” …
However, you have a good point, there. Especially, as we are moving into something completely new. We have no reference points for it as it has never been experienced, before. (Hence, it is new… obvious, but no less important. 😉 )
Much love ❤ ,
Steffi