5th December 2016, last edited 12 January 2020
We live in a basically rich world but in spite of this fact we have too
many poor people and too many unhappy people. Why this?
About unhappiness: I think that our western society has a "
100% syndrome"!!
I notice that in nearly all fields of life we require "100%
" of something.
For instance: in sport only the winner count (100%) all the rest is hardly
noticed.
In business only the best count (100%) all the rest is considered scrap.
In office one is expected to delivery 100% of is attention and effort.
A men is expected to be 100% virile and strong.
Women are expected to be 100% beautiful.
And the worst of all is that we want to be 100% safe about everything.
This is the main disgrace of human kind:
we are not able to cope with UNCERTAINTY.
We always wish to be secure about our income, we wish to
know why we are on this planet and what happen if we die.
Nature is not at all 100%, in anything!
Nothing is 100% perfect.
Nature does not have a goal, nature is just energy with (physic's)
rules.
WE SHOULD LEARN (and accept) THAT NOTHING IS PERFECT!
Your partner is not perfect, your mobile phone neither.
What you are doing is not perfect in spite of your efforts.
Your boss is not perfect. Life is sometime a mess.
Well, let us accept that our lover is not the best of all.
What count is that he/she is our lover and stick to us in spite
of us being very less than 100% of everything.
Business and religion take advantage of our desire for security:
advertisements promise you happiness, religion promise you salvation.
I do not say that we should not try to improve ourself and our world, but I
am saying that we have to accept that 100% will never ever be reached in
any field.
So please be tolerant to people that are not able to reach what do you
think is 100%.
Happiness can be achieved with much less than the maximum
imaginable.
Reaching perfection (i.e.100%) in a topic is equivalent to a
mental suicide, because then there is nothing more to discover, no more
improuvement needed: this would be the END of the road.
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