Over my lifetime I have been on journeys. It is a little considered fact that each phase or our lives is yet another journey. We can label birth to age seven as the journey from ignorance to the beginning of understanding, right from wrong. After this is the journey to maturity. From there on the journeys are one of free choice as to what we eventually become or, if we choose incorrectly, the journey to misery.
I bring this up because, of course, I have named only the main roads we journey on. What I left out of this is a journey toward reality. Once we’ve begun thinking of it, our worlds influences are legion. The journey we took to age seven is, therefore, the most important during our formative years. The journey to understanding right from wrong. Thereby, we also learned how to treat people either correctly or incorrectly. The world is a poor guide for this. The world does not care what we become, only those close to us care what we become or enforce the fact that we deviate from right toward wrong.
When we take the word of our world for anything we are off the proper tangent. The world robs, kills, and causes suffering to the point of being a horrible influence. Greed, avarice, pillaging, murder are all things the world uses as sport. Look at the history of nations and tell me if you think I am incorrect.
Here, on this website, Lost 0, I want to go into what is correct and incorrect but not as myself as judge. The Good Lord knows of my errors, mistreatment, and sometimes egregious behavior. The Good Lord knows of all our faults and looks for our ability to learn from our mistakes by not making the same mistake over and over. Nations have not learned this and neither have most of us. As intelligent as we feel we are we are prone to cause harm to others, sometimes on a daily basis.
I have corrected much of this behavior by this time in my life so I wanted to attempt to pass on some things that I have learned that made my life better. Not great, mind you, but substantially better and money is not of what I speak. It is recognition of who I actually am and of the extreme shortness of time we each have to get ourselves right.
I am in my final years. This does not worry me overmuch. I have spent the last fifty years repairing much of the wrong I have committed by being ignorant of and toward others. This is yet one more journey I chose to put upon myself and it has meant calmness. Calmness as I face the final storm of life.
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