I am being honest by saying I really have no idea how to start this but I am going to try my best and this is a side way to do so…hhhmmm….to somehow think how to start.
Well to be honest though there is no reason to go around it or for you to wait before you see what I truly want to say so maybe I should keep it short.
I would like to let you know of the 2nd Movement.
The 2nd Mvmnt represents the idea of non selfishness. The 2nd Mvmnt is based that we start our life from 0, that is when we are born and then we move…does not necessary go up the stairs of life, because upwards or downwards really depends, depends on how you look at it, on how you think, what you want, …it is a subjective thing! But hopefully you do move…and the 2nd Mvnt focuses on the 2nd one.
0(zero) phase… We are just born, raised and told what to do by family, school and society…we are told what we are supposed to do in that society and we do it; we are still seeps in this stage. Just go here and there without knowing why, letting our selves to the choices of others, not question nothing, breed and eventually dying without knowing what happened.
But some people do move from zero to go to the next step….which we could call it the 1st. On that 1st step, 1st move, is where people do snap out of this sheep mode and really start to wonder what they are doing in life and if they really want to do what they are doing at the moment, if that thing is making them happy. So according to the answers on questions like that, questions helping in find each self others go for spiritual enlightenment and others for top managers and high positions, other go for art and carpeting and others for authority and politics. These are personal choices and each one is respected, maybe not agreed, but yet accepted. None is wrong and none is right!
But I want to focus on the next move because it is my opinion that the 1st is not enough. The 1st move is good and necessary but still is bounded by what we experience as society and culture which is directly related with our dilemmas, choices, priorities and actions.
To start with I think it’s really easy to understand that we usually search our path and selves with our eyes and brains instead of our hearts. This is something that usually drives us into wrong directions.
Our world is many things. Is also beautiful but is also competitive and materialistic. We have so many unnecessary “things” just due to our greed and pleasure that we loose focus from simple enjoyments, from small details that are the salt and pepper of life.
We try to find ourselves…but we are forgetting that there is no need for that because we create our selves on the way. We make who we are and nobody else can do that for us; no family, no friends and not a love partner. Yes off course we can get inspired, we can be supported and we could love it but “true selves come from within”.
We should not see what is out there and then try to fit ourselves to what suits us the most but we should know what we want and then go get it. If it doesn’t exist, create it!
People who are at the top of the capitalist pyramid and people with great power in this world are able to manipulate the rest because we just take what is out there even when not satisfied, because we are bored to react and create, because we are BORED to change. Also because many of us just don’t believe we could do it.
Please though remember…all this is my opinion and does not make it correct. These thoughts work for me and make sense but each one has his own path to cross and find what he believes is true and fulfilling.
The second move is to question what results have your actions on your surroundings, what impact to society, to environment and generally to others. I mean the 1st move is really fine but if you don’t consider a bit the second then it’s just a selfish move in the end. The 2nd move is to question not only the results of your 1st move but is also a way to rethink the values and ethics that drove you to do it. Is a way to see if your motives were true and came from within your heart or if they were just the illusions that society somehow implanted into you. The 2nd move is to see if you overcame the barrier of your self that society tries to offer as the center of the world, to see if you can stop thinking only of what your actions bring to you, but what do they bring to the rest as well.
What job you do is totally irrelevant to what I am trying to say, but the ethics behind it, is all that maters. If what you do as your job is also done with respect to a greater good, if the results of your efforts contribute towards a common better world, if the way you lived your everyday life, stopped being driven by only selfish thoughts then our world would start changing.
The answer is not to stop everything in our life that is intended for personal pleasures and change everything. Common, off course we need to be our selves as well, otherwise we might go empty and dry, we need some water for our own fields as well, don’t forget that.
We need to be a bit realistic if we want a true change cause we’ll end up with an amazing utopic theory. I always used to say that true change can take place with two feet, one stepping in reality and how the world is and the other one on how we would like it to be.
The 2nd Movement will try to inspire people to think of the 2nd move. And off course in order to go to the 2nd move you do pass from the 1st so hopefully things will change. But inspiration is different then guidelines. The 1st step is truly subjective and everybody has his own ideas for their future and of true, physical and spiritual happiness.
Don’t take anything for granted but at the same time be wise and know when to believe. Argue but you don’t have to disagree with everything. It’s the same as knowing when to stand up for your self but also know when to apologize.
Somewhere somebody said (I really don’t remember who but it was not me, I wish I could remember though) “A strong man helps him self, a stronger helps the others”. Realize that it’s not about changing from one day to the other and it’s not about changing the surface. It’s about changing ethics, values, what we’ve taken for granted and changing our most simple everyday way of leaving. Another phrase again that is stack in my head and again it’s not mine so I am not trying to steal it but again don’t know who said is “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Be independent from the powers that govern, the more dependant you are the more hooked up you are and so the easier you can be taken advantage of or be manipulated and so on.
It’s a perfect time to RE-ACT
