What's important?

Today's society and it's structures are distracting people to see to the most important of all things. It's almost as if someone had planned this all to prevent the people from seeing to the core of things. We have pre-thought patterns we need to assimilate to our thinking and ladders we need to climb in order to be a full member of our societies. We have a media flow that is so enormous it's reverted into argue of extremities instead of understanding the core of discussion. We need to discuss of "blacks" and "whites" of everything media feeds us. As if it would be too hard to understand everything that's going on in today's society. Everything is just about right or wrong, the opposite ends, instead of really talking about the subject. However, I do trust the people in here - maybe this way it is easier for the media to sell their publications at the moment, but I trust this is not a long-lasting road.

Instead of jumping from subject to subject, taking a stand here and forming and black/white opinion there, there's one way that takes a man beyond this all. It is turning the gaze inside instead of outside. These structures, this ecstatic and compelling whirl of today's world has an option. Once we turn our focus inside ourselves, we start to make different kind of notices of our environment. One of the first questions is "What really matters to me?". And at first it causes a lot of anxiety and anguish. Everything seems to be wrong and everything seems so uncontrollable. But it is a good start. With that notification one starts to see through the veil of information flow. One starts to see to the core of things instead of just the extremities you are fed. But it is important to hold on to that question. What is really important?

Once you turn the focus into yourself, you also start to make notes of your own behavior. Why am I doing this? Why I think like this? Do I like this or not? One starts to familiarize oneself with the very being that makes us individuals. We are told today that too much individualism is bad and to be interested of oneself more than of other people is not accepted. That is bunch of crap. Once you start getting to know yourself, you also start to understand other people better. When you constantly ask questions about yourself, you also start to watch other people more carefully. First because you need a mirror to understand yourself but the interest is genuine, not abusive. And you also start to respect other people more because now you do know how hard it is to live free, without the boundaries and limits of pre-thought world. With that one usually develops greater empathy too.

You gain empathy, you gain understanding, you gain the ability to see through veil of distracting details, you begin to understand yourself and other people. And you gain freedom. Then, one day, you will be able to answer the question: "What do I really want?" And when you answer, you know the answer is genuine, because now you know yourself. Then you know, what really is important.