2011 Life is Too Short to Waste

"Life is too short to waste another minute on anyone or anything that doesn't make you happy."

Is this statement sound advice or is it simply justification to not deal with reality?

Within the words, it is implied that the purpose of Life is to be happy, and thus anything that detracts from that should be avoided. However, if one is self-honest about the world we live in, one can see that we live in a consumer driven society based on profit and loss and thus the system itself is not designed to make everyone happy, because for someone to profit, others must lose. For example, for Apple Inc to make profits, they must employ cheap labor in Chinese factories, the working conditions of which have driven many to commit suicide. Obviously increased profits means more money for Apple shareholders, which probably makes them happy, however what about the workers who will never be happy due to the unequal economic system that placed them in a position to have to work for 60 cents an hour for 12 hours a day.  What about their happiness? Should these people refuse to work, because they are obviously not happy? But then how will they eat? It is difficult to find happiness and pleasure in one's experience with an empty belly.

And thus if we look at the experience of billions of humans on this planet who live without even basic dignities it is easy to see that their unhappiness is caused by the actions of the few who seek their own happiness at all costs.

Happiness comes at a cost to so many.


But perhaps all of this depends on how one define happiness. Meaning, what if one defined one's happiness according to making sure everyone had the ability to live with dignity and thus ensuring that would ensure one's happiness?  Imagine, if everyone did that, how much different Life would be, even for yourself.  No more competing with each other to 'get' happiness, actually working to make sure each is taken care of and thus ensuring the same for oneself.


If one look self-honestly at what makes you happy - its a fascinating exercise - what one will discover is that everything that you believe makes you happy has been programmed into you since birth. Meaning all of the values you attach to things, they were given to you - they came from parents, media, school, and the other influences from your environment. You were not born with any inherent values - thus if one is not able to change their values to value all Life Equally - wouldn't that imply that one is a programmed robot unable to change?


And yet, if one is willing and able to change that would imply that one is really alive and not in fact ONLY a pre-programmed automaton carrying out a set of instructions. If Life is indeed too short to Waste - then that would imply that one should make it count and not let your time here go to waste. Consumption and Waste go hand in hand - thus are we really just consumers as we have been taught - are we just a waste of Life? If we as humans are willing to let go of what we have been taught - which is the designed deliberately to support the system as it is - then we are capable of changing this world and thus the generations to come can be brought up to value Life itself and have to go through the pains of living as a separate entity just trying to pursue some undefinable happiness until the pursuit ultimately ends in Death. Then if one returns here, it would be the experience that one would have liked, and your happiness would be guaranteed because you helped create a system that would make it so. But the more we participate in blind consumerism and the 'pursuit of happiness' at all costs - the more we actually separate ourselves more and more from True Happiness - the kind of happiness that would result from knowing that no matter where one is or what one is doing, there need be no anxiety, no worry about the future, and that one's actions actually make this world a better place for all - and that would include you wouldn't it?


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