Having written all that I have so far about time, you might just say that I’m being unfair when I say that work as we know it is most likely not the best possible way of spending our precious time on earth, because in order to remain alive for the rest of the hours of our lives, those same sacred hours that I claim we are so carelessly selling when we become employed, there’s no denying that we absolutely need things like food and shelter. Not only that, but you might claim that since these are all universal needs, we are actually doing harm to the rest of the planet if we don’t participate, if we don’t contribute in the form of labor. You will say that, since we always see everything through our own perception, I am simply choosing to look at the way we currently spend our time, as a civilization, in a negative light. After all, what could be wrong with working, with engaging in an activity that is contributing to the collective evolution of society? We have amazing developments today that we never even dreamed of in the past, and it’s all thanks to science and technology, to people who were working and continue working. Yes, I would say that you’re right to some extent, I understand the aforementioned points, but I would also point out the fact that no other animal on this planet really has a problem with depression or suicide, or with premeditated cruelty and crime. No other animal on this earth pays to live on it, we are the only species that collectively feels as if it must earn its right to exist on this planet, when we didn’t even choose to exist in the first place.
Now, I am obviously aware that there is something inherently different about us, something that separates us from the rest of the animals, but this doesn’t mean that we aren’t animals ourselves, we are definitely still animals. As far as I know, it’s not even completely clear whether whatever it is that makes us different from the rest of the animals is actually something beneficial or detrimental to our overall well-being or happiness. There’s something very interesting about the phrase ‘ignorance is bliss.’ Maybe being more aware or conscious also makes us more susceptible to suffering and anxiety, to contemplation and therefore to depression. I think it was Alan Watts who said that ‘every ascension in awareness has a cost,’ or something along those lines. After all, it is my own contemplation of my situation, that of sitting at a cubicle, taking trivial calls, away from the rest of the world and everything happening in it, that caused me to be depressed by it. It was my own desire to be somewhere else that caused me to dread the idea of a 9-to-5 lifestyle. Desire made way to suffering, just as taught in Buddhist philosophy. Maybe if I were to practice something like Karma Yoga, immersing myself in work, in every action I take, for the sake of God, whatever or whoever God may be, and for the sake of all that is good in the universe, I could find a way to overcome the depression I’ve been mentioning. For now, the only way I’ve found of combating it is to periodically stop working altogether, except on my own creative projects, usually after saving up for a while, but obviously that’s not a very sustainable plan in the long term. We all know the feeling of time passing quickly when we are having lots of fun, or when we feel inspired and enter a creative flow state. In that moment, we are so immersed in what we are living that we forget to be aware of the time passing, of us being alive and aware; we just simply are.
If you have a few minutes and want to hear a cool song check out my track ‘intuition.’ I appreciate you!
rebel eye 