Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
-W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Is it something we can control? Both worry and future? Well, I can not control the future as much as I can control my mind from worrying. Although they are somewhat intertwined. When is the future? Here it comes…wait…here, now grab it! Oh man, did you see it? If I spent every minute worrying about what my future holds then I have pretty much spent my life in waste. You know the line, “Life is but a series of moments, Karpe Diem, seize the day.” In life, the future is inevitable whether you are staring down the grill of a Mack truck barreling towards you with your back to a brick wall or in complete oneness with the world achieving nirvana. It is coming, the future that is. There is nothing you can do about it. There is nothing you can do about it by worrying either. It is inevitable. Although I would rather be a buddhist in nirvana than a man with that slim chance of survival after a truck smashes him to death without God in my life. The point is faith and peace through God is the only thing that can control both your worries and your future (not to mention heroin for a moment may help, but that is just a moment). Whether it is Buddha or Isis, Chrishna or Jehovah and Christ. (Chrishna is a hindu god that has an incredible amount of similarities to Jesus. You can read about them here. http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/kersey_graves/16/chap32.html)
What is strange about the divine is that a lot of gods in the world have an enormous amount of similiar traits. If you would like to read about all the gods in the world, here is a good start.
The problem is, mankind is too stubborn and smart for their own good. Good being God for their future but because we are not able to embrace the true purpose of God in giving, loving and living life for what it is meant to be. We worry and think our good will is enough for life. It could be if you were mentally handicapped. The more I look though, the more I see mentally handicapped people embracing the very existence of God than us normal people. And to add to that, they are the most giving, caring people in the world. Why do we have to be smart? Was Adam retarded? Why can’t we all be retarded? Maybe we would be peaceful and caring, understanding and faithful. I do not know. In every one of my blogs I have said that statement. “I do not know”. I don’t, and I am not going to worry about knowing either. He has a plan and my future is at his/her/its will to make happen.
But I do have one final thought though. On my way to work today, I was pondering the possibilities of reincarnation with every human on Earth. In 1950 the world population was roughly 2.5 billion people and today is approximately 6.5 billion. You can check the numbers in full detail here if you would like to.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/world.html
Now if reincarnation only exists within humans (I know some think it exists within all species) then where are all these souls coming from with the growth of population? I was just curious.
