Day 31 : Seeking pleasure until we die

Why it is so hard for people to stand up and become an active part of the creation of a world that is best for all.
Every human being that have not completely give up their common sense can agree that everyone would benefit from a world that is best for all. So why people want to stay in denial ?

Its seems to me that the answer to that question is : Fear of death.

I have hear that statement thousands of time : life is shot so we must live it to the fullest.

Unfortunately the definition people have about living to the fullest doesn't really connect with what life really is. When people reffer about living to the fullest, they always reffer at " ganing pleasure" . And there's limitless way to came to this end. Alcool, drugs, buying stuff, travelling, spirituallity, positivie thinking, junk food etc.

All those thing are at different level detrimental to life, because the whole is never consider. It's always about how much pleasure I can extract from those thing.

And because the clock is ticking, there is no time to lose, we have to hurry up so we can accumulate as most a pleasurable experience before we die.

The ironie of this is that doing those thing have concequence.

Drugs, alcool and fast food fucked the physical body

Buying stuff that we can not afford can lead use to massive debts that will produce huge amount of stress that is also detrimental for the physical body

spirituality and positive thinking are generally a form of denial that lead to passivity.

The traveler Junky is not able to face the "boring" real life so he will always seek the next fix like a heroin addict.

And because all those attemps to feel pleasure are lead by self interest, the concequence on a global scale are : the destruction of our ecosystem, pollution, exploitation of other human being, animal cruelty

All of this, so we can our fix of pleasure.

As we can see we have all been misled. We can also see that the long therm concequence if we keep moving in that direction will be a complete disaster.

Is that the legacy we want to leave to our children ?

Of course not!

Can you immagine being fill with regret on your death bed, knowing that you had the opportunity to do something significant with your life, but you failed to take that chance because you rather seeking pleasure.

Guess what creating a world that is best for all can be a very gratifing pleasurable experience. You can have it all. Doing the right thing and get the pleasurable feeling. When have nothing to lose to move towards a world that is best for all. We have everything to lose in a life of self-interest. Self interest is a path of eternal fear and misery. Don't the choice seems obvious to you ?

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to seek pleasure without having a complete awareness of the concequence of that.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that a world that is best for all is just the logical thing to do so everyone can have a pleasurable existence

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that moving toward a world that is best for all can be a pleasureable process, therefore, I am not really giving up anything by moving toward that path.