Stuck: to bring to a standstill; render unable to proceed or go back.
We like to keep moving and are typically in a hurry; places to go, things to do, responsibilities to meet, people to please. And the people we try to please include ourselves. Certainly; mix in this concept of making ourselves content or happy, and you get an awkward situation wherein we struggle with and against our individual worlds. We have our needs and wants and ideals and values and others in our world have their needs and wants and ideals and values and they don’t always coincide. Sometimes we can work together to meet our individual needs, but often we are in competition.
How many examples of this competition can you think of? One only has to think of the salesmanship of politicians to begin to understand the competing needs, wants, ideals, and values of the citizens and organizations they represent. What about the legal system? Why exactly are corporations allowed to act as individuals, having rights separate from those of its members? Because the corporations have needs, wants, ideals, and values of its own that are sometimes or often in competition with others and the corporations have to be able to defend themselves against individual people. It sounds a little off, doesn’t it? The idea that a corporation with all of its members and the power inherent in collectivity has to be able to defend itself against individual people is a legal idea defining the rules of competition. Many feel that the rules are not exactly balanced.
So, in this world of competition where some individuals hold more power than others, how can we ensure that the needs, wants, ideals, and values of everyone can be realized? That is what we all want; to ensure that all of us are taken care of? None of us is any better than anyone else, right? How do we do it? Is it reasonable to expect that it can be done?
Moving forward we identify first where we want to go then determine how we will get there and try to predict any problems we may face along the way. We don’t want to get stuck on the way to meeting our objectives. Naturally, we don’t want anything getting in our way. The greatest problem that we have is our lack of sufficient vision, but we don’t always realize that and if we do realize it, we don’t always give the fact enough credit. We don’t see that we are the problem or we fail to admit to ourselves and others that we are the problem. And in doing so, we automatically get stuck without realizing it. The key, therefore, to staying free is to be aware.
1 comment:
stuck....
well mr. baine...first of all, i was really "stuck" just trying to respond to this blog. this is the first blogging activity i've ever attempted, so it was a bit of an effort, but i'm glad i stuck it out.
i believe we are a society of information addicts. we will spend so much money, mind space, heart space, psyche space, and overall time just trying to figure what is going on, but then we don't do a damn thing about it. we live in the world of insanity. we put all our effort in doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results instead of just moving forward, yet i'm so amazed about how much effort we spend in getting all the information about what is going on with us. we just stay stuck but with all that info we are fully aware of what we are stuck with. at what point do we just shit and get off the pot? at what point do we get busy living? we may be out of shit when we are done, but we are off the pot. and rest assured more shit is to come soon down the pike just incase we missed sitting on the pot!
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