The earth was bound to be destroyed, once humans stopped letting themselves die. The desire to live on in others was never a consequence of death but of fear. It is a tactic of life, a method to extend our ego into the soil; poisoning others, but reaching immortality. Generations of people wanting to be remembered not solely by their loved ones but by anyone living. Instilled in everyone, a love for life made war and it is our responsibility to bear in the form of a trauma.
What’s built from the ideals of the past becomes our home and our history. To remember a people we never knew, trivializes the possibility of fully knowing the people we do know. In pursuit of recognition we raise children to represent the ego of a dying man and his conditional love we are taught in our grief. But grief is supposed to be self-belonging, and the dead are supposed to be the nutrients for your continued life. Which is why continuing down this path, most humans will inevitably destroy what was once sacred, the earth will not remember the fact we wanted to live.
Technological advancement is the proof of the human’s love of life. The thought to use one thing to achieve another is rooted in our DNA. From using stones and bones to find more stones and bones, we have a history of creativity as our main tool. What we’ve come to lack is the necessary distinction to fully see the pain of those who precede us, who advanced us. Written history is a tool we’ve made to leave our unrealized potential to the next generation yet for too long it’s been covered up or destroyed by those who wish to whitewash their impact. We must recognize the suffering of historical humans who were fighting the same fight we are now, a fight against the ego of a dead man.
There is no need to fear being forgotten when we are always remembered and reflected within each other’s consciousness. There is no reason for us to destroy a dark past when the fallout will inevitably remind us all of the truth. There is no reason to live a life for or in spite of another person when this life is all you have. But if you feel limited by all you have, it is clear why a thirst for more than what you’ve been given will arise. There is no wonder why we fear the subjugation of a sacred thing being revealed to be our own doing. There is no wonder you fear your reflection and therefore don’t like to be seen.
This is your self-hatred. The reflection of you you’re taught to hate. More accurately the part of you you’ve been told not to love. This belief that your life is incomplete if you don’t make your parents proud, if you don’t make your grand-parents proud, if you don’t make your ancestors proud. Which turns into if you don’t make your wife’s parents proud, if you don’t make your boss’s parents proud, if you don’t make your kid’s parents proud. But at what point will you make yourself proud for you.
This process of self-actualization is being robbed of humans the longer we stay on the hamster-wheel of never dying.
Finding peace within a finite lifetime must take the form of an unconditional love for your life. The reason being, your current definition of peace may not be your own. Aside from our understanding of practices such as meditation and yoga or abstract concepts like world peace, most people do not understand what peace is because they do not understand unconditional love. But that is not their fault, as most people have not had the chance to feel or recognize an encounter with unconditional love. This is once again, because of our resistance to death.
A lot of people don’t know how to lead with love towards something or someone they perceive to have harmed them or something/someone they love (both conditionally and unconditionally).
However to execute this is unconditional love. To see the route of love and to act accordingly within those parameters is difficult because it requires discipline. This does not mean that an unconditional lover cannot cause pain in another person or themselves. But it does mean that if pain is caused it is acknowledged in the right way. It means to love the consequences of one’s actions, alongside the benefits of one’s freedom of choice. It is forgiveness with resolve and purity with grace. It is gratitude for life and acceptance for death.
For those who don’t accept this explanation of unconditional love, that is acceptable, but I do encourage you to ask yourself why you’re resistant to the description. For some it may be because it is not how they want it described. For some it may be because they harbour hate in their heart but still want to say they love unconditionally. For some it may be a third, or fourth option but I believe all skepticism or doubt is accepted for a suffering human race. However, before I start further explanation, there is one question I would ask you… Is it my love that is your war?