The Human Cycle

Sometimes I wonder if the true art of living is not a matter of finding what you want out of life but rather an act of plucking out all the things you don't want, and accepting what's left.

I wonder why we feel like we have to live for anyone other than ourselves, why we choose paths that reflect what's expected of us, branded on us, while disregarding our true passions.

I wonder how many of us die never knowing who we are, or who we could have been, only leaving the fragments of what we thought we "should" be. 

I think to truly love others you have to first learn to see yourself in them and to treat yourself with the grace you deserve and let that grace linger throughout those around you.  If you judge yourself you will judge others. And I think that's why there's so much hate in the world.  Because we hate ourselves and we take it out on everyone around us. 

Furthermore, we have a tendency to judge the things we don't understand.  Because it confuses us we think the only solution is to undermine it, criticize it, destroy it, or simply ignore it. 

It's such a terrible act of degression among all the "accomplishments" of our day.