Making a Choice in Life?

 Whether people realize this or not everyone is making a choice in life.

and this is illustrated (from my point of view) in 

Wake up Dead Man: A knives out story" (2025)

It is illustrated quite well in this movie.

The Choice appears to be do you believe:" The world is out to destroy you?"

Or do you believe: "I believe in Compassion for myself and all beings in the universe."

This actually is a choice whether people realize it or not in life.

Let's look at "The world is out to destroy me".

Where is this coming from?

My point of view would be: "The world is not trying to destroy anyone. Instead people are just trying to survive anyway that they can."

For me, understanding that people are all just trying to survive any way that they can makes the most sense.

Though it might appear to people who are paranoid anyway that "The world is trying to destroy them this is simply not true in most cases. 

What you might have is individuals who are your perceived enemies fighting you in various ways the whole world is never trying to destroy you.

I suppose you could see the world like: "Survival of the Fittest" and some people do see the world like this.

But, for me, the point is not that. The point is to go beyond that to a better way of living in life.

If you educate yourself (by however you are going to do this) often you can begin to see the real dynamic in life which is: "Everyone is trying to survive anyway that they can."

So, from my point of view: "How do you get out of their way and live a good life yourself?"

When I asked myself this question as a young man my solution became ultimately: "IF I have compassion for myself and compassion for all others this is a much better way to live."

IF you study all religions of the world and all successful philosophies of the world they are ALL based upon in reality "Compassion for oneself and compassion for all others."

This is the basis of all civilization: "Caring for oneself and all others."

This is why civilization and tribes formed as survival units. So, if you understand what civilization actually is for: GROUP SURVIVAL, then you can move forward from there with your own types of philosophies.

However, generally speaking no one is trying to destroy you personally (except maybe your perceived enemies). And this could be paranoid or not on your part.

However, if you practice the adage "What goes around comes around" or "Karma" or "As you sow so shall you Reap" which is a very useful Farming tool and saying, you begin to see the truth of all of this.

So, whether people realize this or not they are all choosing either compassion or paranoia in their lives.

And Paranoia generally kills people (both themselves and others). Because if you are scared enough you are going to wind up with both you and others dead.

So, having right mindful compassion for yourselves and others might be the ONLY way to a good and long life here on earth.

Because in the end Paranoia ONLY kills yourself and others, generally speaking.

Seeing this is everything in life.

In the end Compassion for yourself and all others is the only real way to happy old age. In fact, it is the only way to survive even until 30 years of age here on earth.

By God's Grace