The Meaning of Life (U.S.)
Lately I’ve been taking hits from people who don’t like my attitude. They say I’m being too sharp with folks who screw up or aren’t doing their job. Undoubtedly I’m being sharp...I don’t know about too. I have always believed that we as human beings are capable of significantly more than generating an income to feed, clothe, house and otherwise care for ourselves and our families.
And it is my belief that we are at a point in our civilization where we may be in fact shifting from a survival mode to a new time when we will be able to actualize our extraordinary potential. This will be very disruptive, since we spend most of our lives working and dealing with issues of living. I mean, who has time for anything else?
Well, actually, I think that we all do. I think that we’ve been taught to focus on our day-to-day living issues rather than to let our minds wander to what is possible. Taught mostly out of habit. For so long, every waking moment was devoted to survival, but along the way, life grew longer, and more recently, a significant number of people have found that they have considerable discretionary resources, both in terms of time and hard assets.
Most of us plow those resources back into our living, because that’s the way it has always been done, and that’s what everyone still does. Without question. Well, it’s time to question, folks. It’s always been around, but recently more people have been hearing the question, and posing it to themselves. What is the meaning of life? Why are they here?
I also think that just as our species is on verge of a breath-catching transformation, so too is our nation poised to regain its heritage, to assume its proper mantle, to lead us all forward to an exciting and purposeful new way of thinking and living. The United States, after all, is a cultural synthesis of East and West. We are generations of risk-takers and innovators. From sea to shining sea, telephones to the Internet, equality to environmentalism, we have been in the forefront both of new technologies and new ideas.
What we don’t have is a spiritual compass. Perhaps because we’ve been looking for it outside of ourselves. I go with George Bernard Shaw who said, "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to further generations."
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.
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