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With time I came to realize, that everything is good. Good in the sense of morally and generally good, ideal, indeed perfect. Not something you’d think or hear from most places. Let me show you, what makes me think so. This topic is very close to my heart, so prepare for a deep dive
Chapter 1: A water metaphor
Everything happens for a reason. Everything is the result of free will, choices and consequences. Everything takes it’s ideal shape based on these choices. Imagine it like this. Water is not even. It splashes around, there are ripples, bubbles and so on. But these are results from the movement within it, and it always wants to go back to a perfectly flat and still form. I think this world is the same. We can do things, make bad decisions, and cause ripples and waves. But the waves are always the result of free will, they can be influenced by other waves (i.e. the free will of others) and they naturally flatten off again. There is no unbound chaos. It naturally goes towards order, with choices creating structure, unevenness and temporary disorder. How boring would it be, if it was always still. How chaotic it would be, if it would not return to tranqulity.
chapter 2: it’s a process
When you look, well, anywhere whatsoever, you hear about bad things. But this is already where you fell for the trick. Where the spell captured you, where the magic has deceived you. You look at it and just assume that indeed, it is bad. We humans usually do not take things at their neutral face value, pause, think about what it means, and only then think about if it is good or bad. But if we’d do this, we might realize that so many things are actually good. Sometimes waves need to clash in a big hit, to then neutralize each other and settle down. Neither is it a problem in that the tensions already existed, nor is it bad since this is what removes the tensions.*
chapter 3: the neighbors grass is greener
…Seems to be a universal thing. We always assume that things are worst for us and best for literally everyone else. We do not pause enough, empathize, see things from the other side’s perspective. Something which you inherently do when you play games like chess. If you ever played that game somewhat seriously, yo might’ve done the following. Play to some position, think you’re behind, then turn around the boards. Maybe, all of the sudden, your new position starts to look weak, and your old one suddenly looks strong. This is exactly this bias. And it’s an incredible feel, when you realize this. All praise to God that I have changed my opinion on many things many times throughout my life. And this way, I also managed to get to see different subjects and topics from different viewpoints. And, guess what, there it is the same. It looks like someone is winning, until you see their point of view, and suddenly they look like the losers as well. The bottom line is, that nobody is winning or losing, it’s always balanced, and always fair, it’s always perfect.
Chapter 4: Free will realm
Ultimately, we have free will. One misconception I want to clean up real quick though, free will does not mean free will to choose the consequences. Because we all have free will. And the consequences are the combination of the choices of everyone. So while we can act freely, the ultimate result is only partially influenced by us. It again is symmetric, for others, their consequences are also influenced by your choice and by you exercising your free will. And suddenly you realize that you have a lot power. Now the idea is, that this world is perfect in that sense that it’s always in the most ideal state based on every single individuals decisions. It might not be ideal for you specifically. But it is most ideal for everyone combined.
Chapter 5: ENable yourself
The reason that people think things are bad or negative is, because they want to change things which they can not change. They feel powerless because they want to exercise power over things which they do not have any power over. But I have good news, there is something which you have full control over: Yourself! And along with that, all of your decisions. Once you realize this and shift your full focus to yourself, all of the sudden it seems like you could to everything. Because, to some extend, you actually can! It will take work, and time, and you need to decide what you want to do. But if you work on yourself, you can do many beautiful things.
chapter 6: borrowing a christian prayer
The Serenity Prayer, although I will slightly adjust it. It goes as follows:
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as the prophets did, this world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that God will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amiiin.
If you understand this, then things will change for good, God willing. Understand what you can and can not change, and that you have to take the world as it is. And then work on improving the things which are within your power.
God is above all things and everything happen’s with God’s permission. Wanting things to be different, in my opinion, in a form of not fully submitting to God’s will. If something is, God has willed it. If you fully submit, then you will accept everything which happens. This doesn’t mean that you have to endure bad things. Do good things and if God wills them to happen, they will. But stop wishing for a different world. This is he world God has allowed. The world God has envisioned. Accept it. It is good. And God knows best.
Chapter 7: dont cling to this world
This world is a place for us to live and act, to experience the beauties and possibilities of creation, and to make choices and do good things. It is a testing ground, designed to test our faith and our choices. We are blessed with free will, but our choices matter. Within this world, but not only within this world.
Furthermore, we are only responsible for ourselves. What others do is not up to us to decide.
[5:105] O you who have believed, upon you is [responsibility for] yourselves. Those who have gone astray will not harm you when you have been guided. To God is you return all together; then He will inform you of what you used to do.
And neither can bad actions of others harm God in any way.
I think once again media is a mere to make you both reject the world as it is by showing you how supposedly bad it is (seriously, media in this sense is evil. It wants you to think the world is bad, when in reality, once you step outside with an open heart, it’s good to the core and unbelievably beautiful.
conclusion
Focus on yourself. When you see something that’s wrong within your surroundings, address it. If it’s something from the media, neglect it. Actively look at things ahead of time to understand them. Be proactive, not reactive. Improve your degrees of freedom by improving yourself in different ways. And focus on what truly helps you and the people around you.
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