Sometimes, when my mind really wants to and when my mind is very sure those old memories won't hurt as much, my mind travels back in time against my own will, not that I even put up that much of a fight because I really do enjoy recounting fond memories, my mind remembers the very happy moments at the beginning of my life that were so good and brought nothing but pure happiness that I would think to myself over and over again that it would last forever and unfortunately, it doesn't. Sometime later or almost immediately there would be a follow-up of something terrible and though many times, the terrible things that happened had nothing to do with me personally because it would be something that I was told or heard about on the news, but I would still feel the impact as if I was the one directly affected by the incident. And then I would wonder with great sadness and a lot of fear too why do bad things happen, who causes bad things to happen and why can't something be done about it.
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I used to feel as if it was a crime to have moments of happiness because you never know when fate might decide that you have had enough happiness and then decide to hit you with something tragic. I still wonder why there is so much evil in the world today and sometimes, in the quiet moments, I wish with all my heart that there is something major that I could do to reset the world and banish evil forever. The only difference now is that the saying: “That's the way the world works" has been with me for so long and I agree with it along with the rest of the world now because in reality it is actually true.
But many times too I don't agree because it seems like a way to sweep under the rug the bad things that people do deliberately to cause pain to the world. The evil that we experience today, the illness, the poverty, the hunger were all created by fellow humans who decided to be in charge of things in order to feed off the suffering of the masses.
The concept of living in an Utopian world is more of a fantasy now because the whole world has been conditioned to think that without suffering, nothing good gets done. Many issues can be attended to if people decide to just put aside their differences and work together, but then everyone is concerned with marking their territory, exercising absolute sovereignty, would rather be the one at the top in charge of things and giving orders rather than holding hands and working together.
If every leader in the world actually cares for their citizens, their citizens would flourish more than they are doing right now. Suffering doesn't build up an individual, most of the time it only builds up the individual’s instinct to pass on the trauma and that is what many people do today. The mentality of because it was done to me it must be done to others too and I can't suffer alone mentality is slowly dragging us down as a species.
If people really, truly cared for the next person, leaders and citizens alike, the world will noticeably be a better place and it really doesn't even have to be perfect like Utopia, it just needs to be better. People need to do better because the real change that we seek will occur when there is truly a generous amount of love and care in the world and not the scarcity of it as we see in real life.
If we lived in a perfect world, I like to think that life would actually be very good. It might seem boring because of the way we have been conditioned to think that a life without any form of hardship should not be worth living, but I beg to differ. If we lived in a perfect world void of man-made problems, people would actually live long and there would be real happiness in the world. The happiness and carefreeness that we have in childhood but lose in adulthood will stay with us because all we have ever known is a quiet and peaceful life where the world is actually a better place and a safe place to live in.
We can only hope.
