Walking Away From Self-Destruction

Do we like chaos in the world? No. Do we need chaos in the world? Maybe we do because we aren't doing things right, and we need to learn the wrong ways of doing things in order to veritably know what not to do.

A period of mistakes for us to learn from and not repeat might be necessary for us to know what not to do. Chaos teaches. The darkness we create forces us to wallow and dwell in what we created, recognize it for what it is, and remember not to go there again. Then we can head towards the light and away from the darkness.

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This is how many people who engage in self-destructive behavior act, like narcotics addicts or people with other addictions. They create the chaos of their lives but finally get out of the self-inflicted suffering they make for themselves. They need to be smacked hard by reality, to suffer, to fall to such a dark low point where they hit rock bottom in order to bounce back up and finally head in the right direction, from the darkness to the light.

Is humanity being self-destructive like a drug addict, pushing itself into darkness, chaos and self-inflicted suffering? I thin so.

But there is a way out: truth. Face the truth of the current condition. See reality as it is, not masked by positivity and rosy colored glasses. See the darkness, demons, evils, immoralities, wrongs and mistakes of our way of living. Failure to recognize them means we keep living in them.

The history of humanity is a bumpy ride of ups and downs. Maybe we are on our way up, taking more steps forward than back at this time, it's hard to tell. We need to keep history alive. History of our intergenerational memory; a memory that persists beyond the lifetime of a single individual human.

If we don't remember our past mistakes, we are doomed to repeat them again, and again, and again... We need to be mindful of our past in order to not repeat the errors of our ways going into the future. This applies at the individual personal level and the collective level of humanity.

Chaos isn't necessary. We can learn from the mistakes of others in the past collective history of humanity, and not have to freshly repeat those mistakes ourselves as individuals or as a species.

But, unfortunately, many don't have a long vision of the past in order to learn from it. Patterns keep repeating when they don't need to. We can do better.

Failure to look at the past, learn from it, and do better, means we keep ourselves locked in a cage of our own making, creating chaos and self-inflicted suffering. We need to look towards the past, learn from mistakes, and then we can protect and guard over our future in wisdom of not repeating the same mistakes and patterns of behavior. This is how we free ourselves from the darkness and prison we have created, open the gate, and step into the light of a better tomorrow.

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