Often I have to remind myself that issues have changed and I have to get over what has passed. What happened to the $.10 coffee?
Obtaining ready to go to work this morning, I opened up my wallet to check out the cash flow. Gees... there was only a twenty dollar bill in there - time to fill up once more. I thought for a moment and bemoaned the reality that $20 was a lot of income when I was a kid.
I remember that the coffee growers invented a frost that killed off countless of the plants - a superb feat of manifesting. Coffee soon jumped to $1.00 a cup and has in no way come down. Of course, tea, and chocolate followed and everything else you put into your mouth (supply and demand). As a kid growing up in an impoverished family, we ate cheaply. Chicken was the cheapest of the foods. Can you bear in mind $.10 a pound for wings or necks? When I initial starting driving, the gas was less than $.40 a gallon and spending $20 on a date was a pretty very good evening.
When I keep in mind back to older consumers complaining about how things had gone up, and in their day things had been like this or that. I remember thinking "get over it" get with the present. I had little patience for them. But things have changed and it is now me echoing the excellent ole days.
I have been spending too significantly time on the food channel for lack of anything superior to watch. I am single and for years I have been eating out. Influenced by what I have been watching on TV, I have recently decided to start cooking once more.
What the... $15 a kg for chicken - you gotta be kidding! My first significant creation right after I returned to the kitchen was to attempt spicy apple and raison pork chops - I got this from a new cookbook from one of those Food Channel personalities. Not having anything in the cupboards to support this recipe I went out shopping. Total cost for the meal which includes the 1 lb $6.00 pork chop was $38.00 and I over cooked the pork chop.
I bought my very first house for $10,000 in 1973 and the $100 mortgage payment was killing me. The home is worth half a million dollars right now.
Every new generation have to practice patience as they listen to the complaints of their parents and grand parents.
Why can't things stay the identical? Why is there inflation? What's the deal with supply and demand? What happened to the promise of the industrial revolution that we would have a lot more recreational time and much less work? Why are there now two breadwinners in a family just to meet the payments? What's happened to us and why have we lost our way?
As we moved away from the land and our connection to it, life became additional complicated. Greed became the motivating factor for working harder, since working harder would improve the on the market choices we could make, so we began raping the land and over producing. We encouraged higher populations so that we could compete in the global market and sell the surpluses which increased demands for goods, which brought higher prices.
Nowadays unabridged exploitation is the norm - but what is it that wealth and power is supposed to bring to the income changers? Why are we caught up in productivity? Why are the world governments working together with the money changers to bring about a cashless society? What's in it for the income changers and governments?
It is absolute control and power, and for the few that will be in charge, they think it will bring them happiness. We all have the identical objective - we want to be happy. But what happens when we have reached our goals and we are not happy. It motivates us to maintain going. The ironic thing about this philosophy is that it doesn't work. Happiness doesn't come from gathering abundance.
Men of power and abundance have shown us through the ages that they are in no way truly happy. In truth when 1 has reached the leading of the mountain and looked over it, one becomes depressed when the elation is over. If it was only the mountain that was to be conquered then 1 soon runs out of mountains. Dictators have demonstrated that power over life and death and the land commonly leads to self destruction 1 way or the other. Power corrupts in the spiritually immature mind. All of these persons have substituted happiness for power and they acquire themselves unfulfilled.
Society has everything backwards. To know happiness you have to be happy 1st, and then you seek to demonstrate it physically. A happy mind does not have to do issues to make it happy. In fact a happy mature mind knows that doing or acquiring issues does not make one happy. Normally it brings sadness and fear.
The world might possibly have been flat at one time, and once Columbus discovered otherwise, the world overall did not change its happiness quotient. The world may possibly have been flat, but it was still 3 dimensional, with those living on the edge and others living underneath. For all that exploring, humanity has made incredibly poor progress in discovering its accurate nature.
The industrial revolution and technical evolution has left us cold and disconnected. We are not the extremely developed species we believe we are.
The truth is none of these issues matter unless we think it does. There are fine examples of small societies that have not changed in millennia. In this highly technical world there are many people living on dirt floors with no doors are glass in their windows. These people may well hunt or forage for food for two hours a day to sustain themselves and the rest of the day is invest in socializing and rest. They are happy and content with what they have. They have discovered their true nature and their connection to the earth and their environment. They began off happy and they demonstrate it in their quality time in leisure. We label these men and women as primitive, but we have missed their greatest gift to humanity - basic living and maintaining the connection to the earth is happy, is contentment, and is our true nature.
From the isolated tribes in the jungle, to the man landing on the moon, our present physical reality demonstrates the diversity of humanities imagination. But it clearly demonstrates what it lacks the most and what it seeks to envelope.
The astronaut may possibly discover new worlds and the wonders of the universe, but he looks back from space on a world that as wondrous as it is, lives far away from what it seeks. In the coldness of space this small planet could be radiating warmth to the rest of the universe, but it is cooling off. Cold collapses in on itself - heat expands. Life produces heat and death is cold.
When it comes to happiness it can not be produced by technologies, visiting other worlds or Heaven. It is some thing that is usually within arms reach. You are either happy or you are not and it is consistently a option.
The world changes, but how it modifications is determined by us, by each and every individual. We may possibly not wish to live in a jungle, but we do not have to get caught up in the race for new technology. We do not have to over populate or over create. The simple societies have shown us that their happiness is demonstrated by becoming socially involved and connected to the land, whether it is round or flat. In our struggle to uncover happiness - we leave it behind.
Our effort to move past horizons ought to be an expression of happiness not a search for it. As a species it is natural to demonstrate our happiness by sharing it with other people and the land, and then we endeavor to alter things to demonstrate our happiness.
We are happy so we go out and purchase new cloths to show off our happiness. Or we cook something unique for dinner. We might possibly get a new vehicle, furniture or some toy to demonstrate our happiness. Or we may get involved in a relationship. Happiness need to be expressed in a changed mindset - alter alone does not express happiness unless it is produced through happiness. We can lament about the superior ole days, but most regularly it is an expression of sadness of days gone by and a recognition of our now more complicated life style. It is a feeling that we have really lost something special, our innocence and happiness.
We are born being happy and full of wonder, and we understand to be unhappy. When once more, this is a option, we can generally be happy if we pick to be. If we make happiness a priority, it will lead us to simplicity. It will alter our mindset and we will strive to only do things which make us happy. "Let happiness be your guide" is effective wisdom that will transform your life forever. And as we continue to be happy, it will spread to all those around us and everyone will benefit.
Your own happiness ought to be the number one priority. This is rational and selfish, but important. If you are not happy, you have absolutely nothing to give. People today are motivated by the happiness of others and happiness continually spills over. Folks, who are happy, have abundance and they often share it.
This is hard to comprehend in a selfless society where you are taught to location other people's happiness over your own. All 1 has to do is look at where we are right now and see that selflessness does not work.
As an individual, we give happiness when we have it to give. We automatically alter our environment and welcome it in complete joy with out regret. I would be OK with realizing the world is flat given that I know my happiness would spill over.
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