Humans and searching

Humans are strange creatures.  And by humans I’m absolutely including myself.  During the past few days, I’ve had a lot to think about.  While I would prefer Susan were still alive, her death has triggered many new thoughts and experiences.  For that I am grateful.

Tonight, as I was driving, I had a silly thought.  Actually I said stupid, but either way, it was just silly, and very human (aka wrong).  But, it allowed me to make some possible connections.

Humans, especially westerners, spend their lives searching.  Most have no idea what they’re searching for, because it’s so vague.  Often, it’s can be approximated with concepts like, “something more” or “something bigger”.  We are continually looking for something more than what we have, without realizing that we are enough.  Our limitations are self imposed.   But since we don’t realize this, we search outside ourselves, sometimes for entire lifetimes.

For a while I thought this searching didn’t have much basis, but then I realized it does!  We enter physical reality so we can experience growth.  We enter with perhaps a rough preference of a life path, but there really aren’t a lot of rules, except to experience and discover.  Too bad we don’t remember that.  Since we don’t remember that, we end up searching.  We know we’re meant to grow, and experience on some level, but it’s not conscious.  So we go through life searching for that thing that will make everything make sense.  Except it isn’t outside of us, just deep inside.

I have a theory, that I can test on my kids actually, that if we knew this from birth, we wouldn’t substitute experience and growth with superficial things.  We wouldn’t seek others to complete us, because we would know we’re already complete.  We wouldn’t seek outside of us, knowing the answers are all inside.  And maybe, just maybe, we can cure much of the dysfunction in the world, if we could all start teaching our kids this message.  Or, at least clean up our own little parts of the world.

I wish I could remember how I said this all in my head on the drive home, since I think I said it better, but hopefully this also makes sense.  Feel free to share comments, as it’s only through questions that I really refine ideas.