life's patterns

Don't you have sometimes the impression that all our life we are faced with a sum of situations in which we react very predictable? I don't just mean that the way we react is not logical, but sometimes all these choices that we make are made in order not to affect our future in a negative way. And all the mistakes we make are made on the same reason. And somehow, in this way we limit later on our possibility to discover and experience various things.

For example, at a certain moment we have chosen to take a safe path that guaranteed us a calm but rather dull life afterwards. And this includes the choices we make when we decide what school to get in, what job to have, what car to drive, etc. If you can rise your head above the crowd you can see that life is not by far that exciting. And if you can not maybe it means that somehow along the way you've got lost in what you wanted, in what you really felt about life.

The safe path, as I have said, leads often to a dull existence. You can see this all around - people doing all kind of things and forgetting why they are doing them. Why are you doing you job, raising you kids, paying for your car, apartment? What is the real purpose? Just to say "Well I am the best in my field" or "I am so proud of my kids" or "I have 3 cars and 4 houses", etc ? OK, let's presume you are there, you have done all that, what's next? Of course you can get an extra car, house and even have another kid but this is not a contest. Or maybe this is the purpose of this life? Always to get better, to get higher, to be the first?

Yes, you can say that this is how we have got so far, but can you say that the men that built the roads we are walking on, the men that made the food we are eating, the men that raised the San Francisco bridge or the men that landed on the moon were really happy, were they satisfied about their life? Of course you can say that some of them have done something exceptional, but seeing it all as a whole, were are mere pieces in a huge Lego game, and everything we do now can be considered exceptional if we look back far enough. But if we understand how we have got here is finally just a matter of consequence, seeing all the steps done by all the people behind us, we have just did the next step forward, as it was foreseen.

We have a natural predisposition for progress, for evolution. This is how we arrived here today. But from here we can choose to do more and not just do the next step forward. Do more with our life, add meaning, add sense, add feeling. How can we do that? Surely, no one knows the answer even though we might be searching it. But we can get a step closer if we could, not just for one minute but for one life, get over barriers, open our souls and minds, feel the person near us and enjoy every minute of our life.

This could be the start, the rest I am leaving you to show me what to do. We have one life, let's make the best of it.