Few thoughts to chew on...
Age is just a number. You become what you believe. It’s all in your head. Your body reacts to your state of mind. If you think and behave like a child, you will look like a child. Similarly if you think like an old person, you will become an old person.
So keep some childishness always alive for most part of the day if not all the time. Doesn’t make you less intelligent in any way although it is perceived to be.
Perception about yourself is just an illusion you are creating and maintaining to project your intended image to others. It is not a truthful image but a fake one. Perception management and manipulation leads to lies, deceit and dishonesty.
Now why do we want to project an image that is not truthful? Answer is because of the way society or present structure of the world is. You are told that you have to have certain kind of personality to hold a certain position or job. That is not true.
You can be true to your own personality and do the work just fine. But people simply accept it and instead of being true to their own personality they start to copy or mimic the behaviour that has been associated with that job position. All this leads to a world full of fake and pretentious people. Which is the current state of today’s world.
Because people work hard to maintain a fake perception about themselves they have to have that extra stress.
First of all they must dispel this fact that they are fooling anybody with this fake image. Most know their reality and others simply do not care.
Working late than what is required and keeping any work pending for long doesn’t make one appear sincere or thoughtful. Instead it makes him/her inefficient in reality.
It would have been much better to spend that time and energy on actually doing that work quickly rather than making it appear that one was extra thoughtful. That is not fooling anyone. So it is better to be truthful and refrain from creating or maintaining an “image”.
Your work is not your whole life. It is only a part of it. A rather insignificant one. Just a source of income to sustain you and your family. That’s what it is. Nothing more. Nothing less. Don’t fall into propaganda that makes it something more important than your family and personal life. There will always be someone to replace you in your workplace but no one can replace you in your family.
There is no need to overthink and make any work more complex than what it actually is. Concentrate on the core areas of work. Any addition or bloating up of work is due to the way it was done by previous people. It was their way not essentially the only or right way. Just do your core work sincerely, judiciously and most importantly, in time and go home.
For me, attitude and integrity are most important things. More important than being smart or intelligent. Each work is defined and with time and experience ANYONE can do it. Merit is a myth. People devalue and underestimate themselves due to false propaganda. Again, it’s all in your head.
Doing a work smartly is basically a deviation from the defined way of doing work. It is not required and is unethical most of the time. All questions are ethical and if something leads to unethical practice then it must be discarded.
There is greed in the world because people have been programmed to desire for artificial needs. Several artificial needs are continuously created through advertisements, media and society. Having more money, big car, big home, more jewelry, certain expensive products etc are artificial needs. The desire for these artificial needs drives people to the path of immorality and unethical ways.
The visible effect of this is the corruption of human mind. A person becomes tempted to do anything for these artificially created need. An obvious solution will be to devalue the ideas of being rich, famous, having more possessions, power and stop worshiping money. Instead if ideas of honesty, simplicity and knowledge are held over money and power then you can see the element of corruption slowing dissipating from the world.
Integrity needs no rule. And freedom knows no boundary. Any authority or rule that restricts one’s freedom and denies his right full entitlements must be destroyed.
"The definition of freedom is the infinite value of the human being. The definition of evil is the destruction of freedom. Everything that is evil teaches people that they have limited value."
"Truth is always simple. All people recognize truth because all people are intelligent beings. It is the nature of evil to create artificially complex ideas like laws and rules. It does it to hide or obfuscate the freedom it destroys."
"If you remove the complexities and fears from your life you will find a plain and beautiful truth. That truth is the nature of your worth. While evil seeks to destroy or hides a person’s worth, freedom shows humans their full potential and their full value. Nothing on earth is more valuable than you."
Think, speak and act what feels right to you. Nothing is blasphemous, seditious or reprehensible. No thought that you can think of, however weird, has not already been expressed.
When you disagree but you don’t say no or are silent, it is taken as consent and very soon it will manifest into your reality. Think, speak and act righteously and leave the rest on universe. It will create conditions that will ensure justice and happiness in your life. And if everyone thinks like this then our collective consciousness will create that desired reality.
