Pay Respect To

What is the first thing you think of when you hear the term "pay respect"? For me, I think of the dead. Pay your respects for the person who just died. Why is it time to respect them now that they are dead? Shouldn't we have done that while they were alive? Now that this person is no longer of this earth, lets bow our heads and respect the person that they were. It's just like holidays and birthdays. Lets appreciate this person on this set day by buying them a present. Buy the hallmark card that says something that we can't.

This is total nonsense if you ask me. But it's "conventional" wisdom I suppose.

Now I ask myself what is the second thing I think of to "pay respect" for. That would be pay respect for your elders. For me, just being older than me doesn't earn you some prize. Sure, you've been around longer than I and have seen more, but I've met a lot of older people who lived is such a small box, they'd totally lost touch with growth and only knew decay. Try shrinking spiritually for 30 years and see if you deserve to be honored.

Honestly, the young and innocent deserve to be respected more than most. They are pure of heart and mind and see life clearly. They are capable of anything and see right through roadblocks. But after being told what not to do thousands of times in their early years, they conform to the standard of decay. Grow up just like your parents, do what they say, not as they do, etc., etc.. Get a 9-5 job and work for retirement.

Once you start to question things, life takes a sharp turn. My life is a lot like the movie The Matrix. I am Neo and have seen things how they really are after I followed the white rabbit down the hole. There is a system of conformity in place to control people. Emotions must not be too high, or too low or they think chaos will follow. After I ate the red pill, there was no going back for me. I have seen people take the red pill then spit it out. They were not ready to see things as they really are. Most are not. It is a LOT to handle and the transition is the toughest thing you will ever endure. But eventually, in my experience 5-10 years, you will understand that suffering will come to aid your spiritual development. It is a difficult thing, but a blessing in disguise. Welcome it and take it on.

A friend of a friend is a serious alcoholic and smoker. He got lung cancer and was told he could not drink or smoke anymore. He couldn't handle reality without his vices and tried to end it all by overdosing. When my Father is sober, he begins to make changes in his life for the better because reality is setting in. Unfortunately, he can only handle it for so long and reverts back to the bottle.

So I believe most people can't handle reality and would want to be reinserted back into the Matrix with a wiped memory. Most people will take the convenient, easy, short term choice, rather than the difficult long term one. But it's the long term choice that will have the long term happiness.

Wow, 3 posts in one day. Guess I had something to say...