Desires are like beacons on our path in life marking the direction towards our purpose. As any force of nature, they can be perilous and destructive or propel us towards our purpose in life if managed by a skillful captain. We are free to choose to guide the ship of our life towards exotic places or left without direction towards the only place our life will naturally go: the bottom, no matter how much we wallow in self-pity.
To find out where we are and where we want to go we try to base our decisions
on fact and proven theory. But life is much more complicated and on top of that
personal so its often hard to find useful advice and guidance. What are we and where
do we want to go? Everyone certainly has some idea about that. So do your
friends and wider circle of relatives, workmates etc. Their view may be close
to yours or widely different. And somewhere there is the real you independent
of opinion but certainly moving or being moved in one or other direction for
good or bad.
Among all that we have our beliefs: the things we hold to be true without
decisive proof because we didn’t have the time or the opportunity to check
their validity. We still act upon them because we need to act and make choice
big and small in every moment of our lives. So these beliefs influence reality
and so in fact create into reality. Again, we may be successful but that would
be entirely due to chance. Only by sharing our beliefs, assumptions, hypothesis
with other reasonable people and accepting any constructive criticism can we
see clearer in the fog of complexity created by contemporary society. Our
desires, passions, values, goals being the compass the best map will be the one
created by thinking and experience, and open to corrections by fellow travelers.
And not only for advice, often if not always we need outright help from others
to achieve our goals.
But how do we enlist that help?
There are two obvious ways:
Cooperation or Coercion.
Coercion might come first to mind and seems like a quick and easy way to
achieve your goals but it’s self-defeating in the end. Cooperation builds on
common reasoning and pooling of resource to reach goals both personal and
common trough understanding, compassion and common sense.
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