The Great Leveller

 Death is the great leveller, the most certain thing for every human being.

The journey of life is littered with distractions.  Ego, addictions, time wasters, expectations of others, society's control and falsities of trickery.   When a human life expires, each of these disappear as if by magic  - but it is not magic, but attachments that have somehow expired with the last breath of life.

To balance up things, it is only fair to remind myself of other matters that go with the end of life.

Memorable character, personal resilience, charming personality, generosity, a loving nature, patience, a broad based mindset and an understanding inner self - these are features we appreciate, admire and adore in any one impressive person we are fortunate to meet up with or come to know.
The passing of such a person leaves a hollow in our hearts when we miss them.

The contemporary world that we live in the 21st century continues to be amplified with negative vibes.  

Self centredness of  politicians are increasing.   The penchant for emphatic argument and articulation of personal views and rights, without considering collective community feelings and togetherness, has significantly risen, eapecially in societies that have enjoyed increased materialistic wealth.

Individuals who come into access and control of huge corporate, financial and material reaources can dive into the most ugly of perceived Little Napoleon powerful behaviours of self entitlement and privilege.

The heightened demand for instant gratification and wanting more and more, than any human being truly requires,  has impacted on a deadly growing spiral of greed, corruption and a conviction of being able to not get penalised.

Road rage is a illustrative example of bad tempered humans being able to bully others in public, with such people really believing that the machines they operate are an extension of their demented and deprived character.

The issue with software and AI operated processes in society, business and community matters is obvious - human beings reduce speaking to each  other, get more influenced by hidden powers behind a screen and interact much less losing human social skills.  

Each of us can spend more time tapping and viewing on screens than talking and facing human beings.

We can successfully undertake work, obtain our food, perform investment or expenditure transactions, chill out or exercise,  more in the presence of machines than with human beings.

Regular transactional episodes increasingly involve us using machines more than interfacing with other human beings.  Checking in to a flight, checking out our groceries, scanning a QR code to order our meal, doing an on line tutorial, making an appointment with our provider and so on - we are encouraged to not see or talk to any human being.

So the chances of each of us to deal with a problematic human being also gets less.

The annoying reality is now when a problem arises, the software we deal with pushes back the responsibiliity to us.

This brings my discussion here to my first point -  whatever bad or good points each of us humans have, death removes all and suddenly provides a clean slate.

Death in software mechanisms and hardware devices also brings things to a stop.  Has anyone not lost photos or documentation files in computers or smart phones?

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Clutter

 Clutter.....

Unknowingly.  Without any intention
.  They seem to creep up.  Before the sweeping conquest of most things online, clutter was more tangible, more physical, more visible.

It was one of the two times a calendar year we could leave things beside the pavement for Council services to collect
and dispose for us ratepayers.

Not everything, there are guidelines of what we can throw.  No chemicals, oils, paints, computer devices, toxic things, nothing too large.   Small furniture, mattresses, lawn mowers, kitchen gadgets, metal and pails seem okay.

How did households accumulate such items?  Once  they were useful, many times they were loved, always they provided joy.  Perhaps the original users and owners had moved on.   Maybe they had exceeded their useful life.  Many could have borne scars of peeled paint, loose screws and damaged corners.

When the items were removed, most likely from where they had been sitting for so many years now, a space was freed up.   The vibes of space and energy can move to a more positive stance when things that are hardly used are finally removed.

Why have such items been still kept but no longer used?    Are owners hanging on to sentimental memory or plan to use them again in the near future?   Everyone of us have wardrobe items from the past that we have not worn for a while.   We can have treasured books in our personal library that we read long ago.   Before wifi came and took over our lives, we had physical media in tangible storage for entertainment. Each of us have souvenirs from enjoyable tours.   

As baby boomers live longer, as houses become empty nests due to migration of the younger generations and as family elders downsize, the question of clutter and the need to dispose of household items can rear its ugly reality.

Every individual has silo interests echoed in personal possessions.

What is a person's treasure can be another's garbage.   What was lovingly cared for daily can become disposable in the eyes of another.

There can be a comfort zone in keeping something or not.   In a family scenario, will younger generations still keep the items valued by parents?   Will a spouse have the same cherished mindset over specific items prioritised by the other half?

Human beings are born with no attached material belongings - and so likewise when they pass on.  The human penchant for attachment especially to material things is how civilisation  and society have conditioned us.  Letting go of things is a trying process.    Over attachment leads to the accumulation of clutter.

Other people may call it clutter, but what we hold on to can represent our efforts, devotion and time spent in building them up.  It is essential to understand this perspective.   Then only can third parties comprehend the strong attachment of persons to things that cannot be let go of.

Clutter has emerged in cyberspace -  on screen records, documentation, images, videos and graphics for example.   As these are not that in the face physical, we may not fully recognise the extent of such clutter - until we run out of online capacity in our devices.

Everyone of us faces the responsibilityto manage clutter of whatever kind.  Is it much better that we control, manage and decide on matters of our own clutter?

Amidst the so called clutter, there can
be hidden gems.  The question then becomes when and to whom does the realisation of such hidden gems occur.

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True Change

 All things shall pass, for better, worse, more of the same, or nothing at all.

Change is the constant, constancy is change. 

If each of us did not overly attach ourselves to the passing wind, chatter and temporariness of most things in human affairs or Nature, we would not have wasted our limited time, attention and energy on diversionary things. 

Our inner journey continues.  Focus our innate abilities, nourishment and vibes on more useful and longer term matters.

Reflect and we realise the true nature of true and meaningful change.

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