Does It Have to Be a BMW or Happiness?

The BMW or Audi or MBZ are great rewards for our achievement.

I always loved buying myself nice presents. It made doing the work worth it, I thought. It was my self indulgence for the sacrifices. I had several nice presents including 3 Ferraris and a race car.

They were cheaper years ago.

The other part of the syndrome was selling my talents to the highest bidder. I had skills and talents and I was always looking to improve and get more for the time I had to offer. I wasn’t just doing it for the love of the work, I was doing it for the money.

In fact, in society the worst thing that could happen is we lose our position. Everything else can be second. Everyone and everything has to go towards us maintaining our ticket. We might lose our souls, our families, our pride, our health, and our joy to keep it going.

Sometimes our joy comes with excess celebration every Friday and Saturday night. We are feeding the machine that brings home the bacon.

Once we are in, it is hard to get out; especially once we have obligations.

Often we recognize the job for what it is. It is the paycheck to provide for our families, their education, and our retirement. We look forward to the days when our obligations will be almost finished and we can do what we want. In the meantime, we grind it out.

Would our lives change if we could get a different perspective earlier? What if we took a trip to outer space went through time travel and saw the earth back a million years evolving slowly. We followed life up through the millennia and man in the most recent centuries.

We saw how life got safer, but busier. We saw that two centuries ago man worked harder but had more free time and appreciation for simpler things. We saw that as man got busier his happiness got more complicated.

We saw from afar how we got attached to thinking more was better or necessary.

Inspiration on the other hand has nothing to do with materialism. It is attached to freedom of spirit. It is the appreciation of man for who he was in his first days on earth and how he was connected to all that was provided. Inspiration is attached to us expressing ourselves in the most meaningful ways.

Inspiration is a goal realized for when we are inspired we have arrived. We see clearly that happiness is in existence and sharing our good fortune with others. BMWs mean nothing. It is self realization that has the big pop.

But how do we get from one life to the other? The realization and asking the question is a good start. You can have both. It is the attachment to values that determine in which camp you are living.

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