I believe life is lived in stages, when you are young, as you are, you should be living like this, doing whatever you wish to do, whether it is skydiving, reading, or whatever, you have the youth, the health, the lack of world weariness, the innocence, and the desire to live, love and learn, so get it out of your system now and learn, soak up all the feelings and the emotions, it will serve you well,
true, but at some point, you will find yourself 'funned out', and you will realise that a life of fun is actually quite shallow and empty, take all the fun away, what do you have, nothing. I think one should reach this point at about 45.
How can anything be contradictory to Sikhi when there is no absolute description of what Sikhi actually is, my father is 70, I asked him yesterday whether he had ever met a real Sikh, someone who could answer questions and who lived life and walked the walk, his reply was no. In my view it is a misconception that Sikhs should not be happy, or live life to the fullest, I also find it hilarious that those that shun worldly pleasures and preach to the rest of us, see Anand as the ultimate bliss that must be had and experienced, up there with {censored}ing on crack.
Hmmmm but better it from what? outdated modes of practice? misogyny? racism? pride? envy? well, sorry to be the bearer of bad news but our community operates as it does for a reason, and that reason is the men with the white beards, very powerful people, but until the men with the white beards want to change, there is no point, so that obligation is moot.
how about just not having injustice in the first place, again, your standing up against the men with the white beards again, so this injustice suits someones agenda, the men with the white beards do not like young women questioning their agenda, you might get a glimpse of the naked emperor, which would be bad.
why? to take away the very wisdom they need to survive? to do things for them so they cannot learn and do it themselves? for every do gooder out there doing good, there is one of these 'others' that will never have a golden moment of knowing they bailed themselves out themselves, of building on that moment, and finding the strength within to keep going, keep building, how arrogant is it to assume that we, who know nothing ourselves, no more about another persons needs or pains, and also the affect of taking that away, and the very subject of bettering is subjective in the extreme, what is bettering?
this is an obligation? do you think he needs to me remembered and meditated on? will get upset if we don't, do we get big laddoos if we do?
au contraire, always put yourself first, everyone else is. And if anyone else tells you different, ask yourself why are they telling you? Because people tell you things to make themselves look pure...
don't look! In years gone by, before TV and facebook, and the internet, your view of the world was what you could see, if you saw happiness, you joined in, if you saw misery, well you did what you could to help, but now we have 24 hour streaming misery, we can search for misery on the internet, we can send each other misery clips and all sit down and talk about god and misery, more bullshit, we each have our own responsibility to make our life what we want to make, I have a simple mantra, there for the grace of god go I, if i can help, and its local, sure I will help, if its 5 thousand miles away, I don't give a {censored}. why should I, I cannot do anything, maybe some enjoy the guilt, maybe some enjoy sharing the misery, no idea, but I don't, if I cannot do anything about it and its not on my doorstep, then {censored} it.
possibly, but which strain? the current one don't look great, can we look at our own homeland and say Sikhi is working there? The drug addicts may argue with you, so maybe before we look at foisting our great learning on the world, we might try and get it right at home first?
and who is creating this chaos and destruction, well, mankind, so in order to deal with it, you have to change mankind, rather than deal with the consequences, mankind can take some time to change, its the 21st century and it is only now equality for women is gaining momentum,
In my view you are here to learn, not to correct mistakes made by mankind, you are here to learn and the only way you can learn is by living, so live, and live hard, and fast, get married, have kids, travel, buy a sports car, do all the things you want to do, and then, at some point, you will want something different, and you will be covered with the scars of your life, both good and bad, and at that point, once you have established a family, and family security, then these questions can be dealt with, you will have the time, the security, and the life experience to understand them a great deal more than today, today is for living, for that feeling in your stomach, for new discoveries.
Good luck
