Our ability to get used with everything and adapt, good and bad, this is something that always amazed me, when we are to talk about the human nature. I was chatting about it with @galenkp, and it seems that internet, phone and TV is really expensive in Australia. I was always thinking that I pay too much, but, well, my head is stuck with the 1990-2000 prices, and lately everything seems expensive to me. Quite often I think about my paternal grandma, and how she was complaining that everything is expensive, as in ther mind the right prices were the ones from 1940-1950. And the history repeats on itself. I think that we all remembers the prices that we've seen growing up, and we are somehow always refering to them. As we finished school, and started to pay for ourselves, we got those prices stuck forever in our mind.
And going back to this, as I was born in Romania, my initial prices for everything were like 10 times lower that the ones from the UK. Well, the wages were also like 10 times less, but this is another story. In the past few years, I could see the prices in Romania catching up with the prices in UK, while the average wage is still about 50% of the average wage in the UK. Not so fair, isn't it?
Talking about perception, there is a lot to say about it, and most probably the way that we used to perceive our world 5, 10 or 20 years ago has changed, as we change so often, growing up, given enough time. Let's talk about our childhood, for example, and all that not so real world that we had around us. Most of our assumptions were wrong, but for that time, back then, they were right. Childhood is a happy time, not place, and if you don't believe me, just go back to the place were you grow up as a child, and watch it now, with your adult eyes. You got all your wonderful memories, in every corner and dark alley, but take this out, and you can see that now everything changed. You cannot find that happy place, because it is not in this reality. Not in this world. That happy place only exists in your mind, in our memories.
Once you realise all this, once the revelation settle, you may be able to build on your happiness and to have a perfect life, a life worth living, as it is not the environment that need to change, but us. A wise man once said:
It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. (Al Franken)
I remembered this as I was re-reading "The Green Face", by Gustav Meyrink, some obscure Czech writer that I really like, and he was talking in his book about how all of us are living our lives in one alegoric net (if you are thinking about the Hindu word Tantra - web, then you are right). And some select people, who work to improve themselves, to keep themselves awake, manage to break a hole through this net, to this illusion that is around ourselves, and see the real deal. This is my favorite excerpt from the book:
The key that will make us masters of our inner nature has been rusty ever since the Flood. The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything. Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality, he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. The tighter the net, the heavier he sleeps. Those who are trapped in its meshes are the sleepers who walk through life like cattle being led to the slaughterhouse, indifferent and without a thought in their heads. Seen through the meshes, the world appears to the dreamers like a piece of latticework: they only see misleading apertures, act accordingly, and are unaware that what they see is simply the debris of an enormous whole. These dreamers are not, as you may perhaps think, dwellers in a world of fantasy and poets. They are the everyday men, the workers, the restless ones, consumed by a mad desire for restlessness. They are like those beetles which laboriously climb all the way up along a pipe, only to plunge down into it again as soon as they have reached the top. They say they are awake, but what they think life is, is really only a dream, every detail of which is fixed in advance and independent of their free will.
There have been, and still are, a few men who have known that they were dreaming.
To be awake is everything.
The first step towards this state is so simple that any child could take it. Only those who have been misled have forgotten how to walk, and stay paralyzed on their two feet because they do not want to throw away the crutches they have inherited from their predecessors.
To be awake is everything.
Keep awake whatever you are doing! Do not imagine that you are already awake. No — you are asleep and dreaming.
Gather all your strength together and fill your body for a moment with the feeling (but not the thought !!): Now I am awake!
If you can do this successfully, then you will at once perceive that the state in which you were before was merely one of somnolence. This is the first step on the long, long journey that leads from servitude to freedom.
Go on, then, advancing from one awakening to another. There are no tormenting thoughts that you cannot in this way get rid of. They will be left behind and will not be able to trouble you anymore. You will be as high above them as the crown of a tree is above the withered branches below.
Your pains will fall away from you like dead leaves from a tree when you feel your whole body, mind, and soul is awake.
The Brahman icy baths, the sleepless nights of the disciples of Buddha and the Christian ascetics, and the self-inflicted tortures of the Hindu fakirs are nothing other that the ossified rites which indicate that it was here that the temple of those who strove to stay awake originally stood.
Read the sacred writings of all the people on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. It is the ladder of Jacob who fought all through the “night” (sleep) with the angel of the Lord until the “day” (wakefulness) broke and he was victorious.
You must climb from one step of the ladder to another if you want to conquer death.
The lowest step is called: genius.
What are we to call the higher ones? They are hidden from the mass of mankind and looked upon as legends.
The story of Troy was thought to be a legend until one day a man had the courage to start excavating by himself.
What do you think about your free will, and the role of fate in your own life? Are you free?
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The situation here is going like this, even inside Pakistan, the Pakistan has become more expensive and no human being can buy even a house with his whole life's earnings. A man's salary or a hundred dollars a month, you can tell yourself how he will live.
I think it is the same everywhere in the world. Our parents could buy a house with like 10 years of savings. Now you may need to save something crazy like 150 years of work.
Yeah you are absolutely right, the way things are going, a person cannot buy a house even after saving money all his life
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