For someone else

Do something positive for someone else. Or your life is really meaningless. Something for someone else. Being there for someone else. For someone else.

To be there for someone else when they need it. When they need it. When they are in need. Helping them when they need help. No forcing help onto others. Providing it in a way that is helpful to them. Not in a way that is convenient for me. To give more than I receive. Always more. Always giving. Like a river or a waterfall. Always being there. Always. Never stopping. Never stop from flowing. Always flowing. To serve. A cause. To help. Something. Yes, I know you want to help. You do. But don’t pit people against each other. That is not truly helping everyone. I know you want to make people stronger. Only the strong survive. The weak must be made stronger. Competition makes people stronger. It also can destroy them. The strong eat the weak. The weak cannot run this world. Strength is required to run the world. Inner strength. Razor-sharp inner strength. There also must be compassion to uplift others. No one is perfect. All have flaws. All have a potential for greatness, but not all have it at the same time. There are shopkeepers and there are shoppers. There are leaders and there are followers.

Everyone’s life is precious. All are teachers to others. All are learning from others. All can help others. Prophets and sages are needed to tell people a truth higher than the scrounging for food, shelter, and power. The higher truth of life worth living. The truth of the intangibles, of beauty and love and equality and kindness and compassion and understanding and forgiveness and grace.

The thinking mind. The conscious mind. The aware mind. The active mind. The mind conjuring up things. The brilliant mind. Flashing thoughts. Coming up with solutions. Moving forwards, always forwards. Out of the morass of yesterday into the light of today and back again. Rising and sinking. Over and over again. Gaining clarity. Losing clarity. Finding clarity again. The cycle of life. Memory prevents from falling back too far. Step by step forwards. The lure of a better tomorrow. The nostalgia of a lost happy childhood. Reliving the past is not possible. Not even in one’s thoughts. The past can never look as scary as the present. The flight into the past is avoidance of the present. The future that will be is the one being created in the present. Running away from the present to find comfort in the past is a sign of weakness. Hiding in the past is not facing the present. The present must be faced as painful as it is. There is no other way.

Belief in a god can help. Make things easier to bear. Take some of the load off, some of the responsibilities. Transferring the responsibilities to god. This frees the mind. Unload the minds. Unburdens the mind. All is god’s will. Not my will. Not the will of others. All is as god wills it. If god wanted it differently, god would have willed it differently. Be good and there will be heavenly rewards. Be bad and hellish rewards await. God is love. God is power. God is life. God is understanding. God is death. God is the cycle of life.

Still, doing something for someone else is necessary. Here on earth. God or no god. People exist. A sense of awe is required. A sense of awe at the existence of this universe. The universe exists. Particles exist. Air exists. Life exists. Thoughts exist. You and I exist. There is awe in this realization. Pure awe. Pure power. Pure being.