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February 27 5. How It's WrittenLife has been around longer than us educated humans have. Hence it goes in hand that life was working long before the ‘word’. Pictures can be used to look at how certain species have survived for thousands of years and can give more detail on how if you know how to read them. I will post pictures, or try to describe them, I need you to be open minded and use your imagination!
As with my reference to the moon, I will use metaphors, these are simply a way of getting a point across using an example we can relate to.
It is also my intention for this book to be short. This is not because it is a small area to cover, I could easily spend a lifetime writing about this, could easily write a book on each chapter of this one, however my aim as I explained at the outset is to gain attention and to bring essential change. Also, ironic as this may sound, I am aware that a lot of people don’t like reading too much, I myself am one of them. I like others often pick up a book and read half of it, life gets busy and we simply don’t get time to finish. I hope in time to deliver this message verbally, by whatever means you respond to.
Our instructions for living, for survival and success are written in life.
Let’s get going…
4. The SolutionOur leaders commission hundreds of reports each year, they are done by various people at various levels on the various problems.
Lets take alcohol as an example. Abuse, alcoholism, binge drinking, alcohol related deaths and crimes, a subject we are all very familiar with and see frequently see across our media viewing.
Numerous reports have been done, a cost of which I can’t even guess at. The very latest reports have been published in recent times.
This is the suggestion I heard one MP voice
“Put the price up so they can’t afford it”.
I don’t know who said that, and I am sure your intentions were good but come on.
Another amusing one I heard was ASBO related, trying to get kids off the streets. I don’t even need to write much about the amount of research and reporting that has been done around this subject do I?
The suggestion I heard was
“Put lights up that make them look ugly by showing their spots”.
Again, come on.
I pose you a question about mankind. Answer in your head a simple yes or no.
When mankind first discovered the moon were 385,000 km away, seemingly out of reach, did we decide not to bother with the challenge and always stare in wonder?
Another. If you answered ‘no’ then you are probably thinking one of the following
No, we worked as hard as we could and we found a way. Eventually we got there and now are looking and going further to suit our curiosity.
Or
No, we think we got there but I half believe it was filmed in a studio and certainly the bulk of people bought it. One way or another we made it look like we did and subsequently believed we satisfied that curiosity.
Either way is not important, what is important is this. It wasn’t yes. We didn’t back off from our desires or challenges, in fact they appear to have made us try harder.
Consider for a moment that this appears in a more broad sense, the moon is just a metaphor or means for getting a point across. Think of the cars we have built, the speeds we travel at? The buildings that have stood for generations telling the story of history, the music we have made, the feelings it evokes. Careers so well established, years of hard work, teaching others. A huge achievement is our vocabulary and means to communicate clearly concisely and speedily, as I am now from my bedroom from my head through my fingers to the world. Ace.
The point is we can do anything we set our minds to, we prove it on a daily basis. Making things harder is by no way an answer. It is the very force that drives us, sadly in a lot of cases the wrong way.
I will show you in this book why it varies on an individual level, why for some people life seems easy and they accomplish the world, while for others it is a struggle and the smallest tasks can prove to seem mountainous, however at this early stage I want to ask what?
What makes people do the things they do? There in lies the solution.
Why do thousands of people quit smoking, why do we go running, why do we get up in the morning, why did we go to the moon? What makes people do the things they do?
Mine and I suspect your answer is on the next page. Please think about the question before you turn, read the question again and recognise the answer that springs to mind. It is a simple answer, and I believe on some level we all know it.
BECAUSE THEY WANT TO
Do you agree? If you ask any young person why they drink, any smoker why they smoke, any successful person why they worked at being successful, anyone who climbs a mountain why? On some level or wording, the answer is always the same because they ‘wanted’ to.
There is another question of why, this we will look at later but for now to summarise the point is
If we want to make a change, to lower pain in the world, making things harder by reach or spotlight is not the answer it will only make us try harder. It’s in our nature.
There is something we have missed, a key that when used makes life work. Some of us have it, some of us don’t. Some people know about it, some people don’t, even some who have it and like wise some that don’t.
The solution, the key, the guide, call it what you will. It’s written in life, let me show you where it’s found. Enjoy. 3. The ProblemI read in a paper recently
“The South London shootings are the tip of an iceberg…
Millions have no sense of responsibility or respect for authority.
The new generation thinks anything goes – and that wealth and fame are life’s only worthwhile aims…
As a result Britain is officially the worst country in the developed world to grow up.”
I see it every day in the news, I read it with my eyes, hear it through my ears and feel it through my own life. Pain.
A war fought on distant shores, a new number dead, a parent crying and a problem growing. Anti social behaviour at it’s finest.
A planet that is dying, turning ocean blue to smoky grey, our recourses stopping and creations damming.
International community relations are shaky, in the leaders halls and on our streets. Our divides are clear and balance not equal.
I see people’s lights fading as they succumb to illness addiction and disease. Young people fighting on the streets to make a name, old people lonely cause they didn’t make a friend.
I feel people forgetting to look for the meaning of life instead clinging on to survival, hindered by the carrot of success and financial wealth.
Do not fear there are answers. 2. Who Am I?I am the Author of Windows For People, my first book. It’s a concept I have been working on for many years and am excited to now be sharing my work.
I use the name Author, just simply because I don’t think who I am is that important at this stage, it is more about what I have to say.
I am 27 years of age and at a turning point in life, on of those crossroads we all get to now and again. I have had a successful career, which I will talk about later, however currently, at the point of this entry am unemployed. This week I finished working for the government in the city I now live.
I remember recently my excitement when my criminal disclosure check came back, the last visible scars of my misspent youth appeared to have been erased, my transition seemed to be complete, a once young hoddie criminal to respectful contributing citizen, with personal quality of life and wealth.
I struggle to remember exactly when things went wrong when I was young, I put the difficulty to remember down to the extreme amounts of LSD I took in my mid teens, followed by several years of cannabis smoking and irregular but frequent use of class A drugs. As a child I grew up witnessing struggle between my parents and found it hard to make sense of life in later years, the relationships I hold with both parents now are great and I know them closely as people, not the monsters my child like eyes saw when I was a toddler. They are beautiful people who did their best for me, just simply were not meant to spend their lives together, which through time I understand and value the individual happiness they have found in their respective lives.
Throughout this book I will refer to my experiences, this is not to glorify them but to show the basis for the lessons I subsequently learned and now teach to others. I will also refer heavily to failings in our current system, incidents that I have witnessed first hand that are detrimental to our society’s ability to continue and explain a lot of the failings we see daily through our media. Again this is not to lay blame, but to identify areas that need change, in most cases drastically.
This book for me has two aims the first of which is this: To provide a guide to life's lessons. I was once told
'a mistake is only a mistake if you do it twice, the first you can put down to learning!'
Now there is an element of truth in this statement, people do make mistakes yes, but I question the 'once'? For me and countless others I could name, mistakes need to be repeated numerous times whilst learning eventually leads to change - lesson learnt! In many cases it’s never learned, and people go their whole lives struggling with addiction, depression, under achieving, being alone, debt and alike.
So when I say this book is a guide to life's lessons, I guess it might be read as a collection of mistakes and corrections to which I hope readers can apply to their own lives to save mistakes on their part - as some of life’s lessons can be damaging if not learned hastily.
The book explains a way to look at life, points to achieve success in it. By writing the word success I don’t mean financially, although I do believe that is a side effect. This book is aimed at achieving happieness.
If this book does achieve that you will learn about life, the more you know and put into practice the better your life and those you impact on will be. Simple.
The second is this: To gain attention of the 'Change Makers'. Change makers are what I refer to as people of influence, people who shape the world we live in. People like politicians, the royal family, celebrity role models, media leaders. The list is long and by no means exhausted, it is essential to point out you are included and infact top of this list.
Why do I want their attention? Because I have a message. A message they themselves have taught me. Through going through their system (‘The System’) and reshaping my life I have learned a thing or two. One of which I hope is the ability to communicate my information directly to your eyes, more importantly for free. It is free because you have a right to it, a right that till now people have tried to sell you for their own gain.
As I will explore in later chapters we as a nation and global community have many problems, you see them every day in the news. Just this week I have seen articles on drinking problems, mental health issues, rising the age of smoking, gun crimes, pollution, War, poverty and so on. Again the list is long and by no means exhausted. I don't know how to look into the future, but based on current trends if these problems continue to spiral then so will our quality of life.
The message is not a simple one, but it has a simple point.
Something needs to be done.
Exactly what this entails we will explore on coming pages, but it benefits us of all, every single one of us. 1. Introduction'Windows For People' is a free book, posted here in my blog. It is a book with answers about life. It is based on my experiences and opinions.
'Windows For People' is for personal use, not to be printed for publication without prior consent of 'The Author'. |
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