Strange title for any blog, Life the universe and almost everything. Also your probably wondering what assumption & compassion is all about. Well alow me to explain.
People need to hear compassion and they assume there going to receive it. This is how a capitalistic natured people perceive there existance on the world, gone is the I think therefore I am. To be replaced with I See you therfore you know I exist. The fundemental differences between these two comments are small at first, but lead to the change that has taken place in modern society. For example I have a minor problem this could be anything from a bad day at the office, you dropped something on your foot, anything which could possibly be solved by someone showing compassion.
Now if thats the red corner of our life then the blue corner has to be, well my problems are greater than your problems so therefore as my problem is the bigger issue I will concentrate on that.
But why arn't you with your problem, showing me compassion for what is obviously a bigger issue. But taking the boxing match analogy further, there has to be something to contain all the people that are fighting their corner as far as assuming compassion goes, and that is the people who show no compassion, no soul and no feeling for any problems that might arise, more commonly known as the I don't care. But this group of social misnomers will still come running to the corner of compassion when there time comes, and most are extreamly annoyed when they don't find it.
So whats the secret of compassion, people would say give it where it is needed, but that doesn't satisfy the percentage of people who don't get it back who need the compassion to everyday problems. I've spent months analysing the way society now runs, how in our 80 year lifetimes we forget some of the basic principles of what were supposed to be doing here.
Ten Thousand years ago man walked across a land bridge that connected Britain to Northern France. He walked in a Forest that ran almost uninterupted from Ireland to The Black Sea, following the game, hunting for food which ment they only ate if they killed that day or whilst the stores last. A normadic existance following the seasonal trackings of animals accross vast acreages of decidious forest, that since the end of the last ice age populated the European continent, and for that matter most of the northern hemisphere.
It kind of takes out of context the problems of modern day humans and there ability to worry over minor problems, but they had compassion too, crouch burials occure in Europe througout the history of our existance there, we find the remains of objects that were buried alongside them, mainly in the hope they would too, past to the next existance, where they would join the deceased.
It's in our nature to care about one another, we hunted in groups and we looked out for each other, and you only have to look at a protest on the Television to notice that Humans from all backgrounds can care about one issue so much, they are willing to gather together, in the hope that they can change a policy or an action another human has taken. Just look at loosing a close one how people gather around how the compassion towards the deceased and the immediate family can be seen, but look at a new born baby and the same thing happens, except the compassion is for the child and its parents, compassion is love for your counterparts, whatever there colour, race, religion, and even what they say has to be taken as a point of view that you haven't come to terms with, arguments usually happen people choose not to be compassionate but be aggressive, obviously you may think, or "no it happens when such a thing happens."
Its just not conforming to your way of thinking, but its about how that thinking was influenced througout your life.
A white anglo saxon British male, will think about life in a way a native indian in the Amazonian rain forest never could, and vice versa. Were brought up to beleve in certain morals and justices that have been imposed on us for centurys.
Take the basic clothes that you are probably wearing now, to you it would be wrong and would get you locked up, if you went out without wearing them.
Neverless there are plenty of people all over the planet that do there everyday buisness naked and never think about there lack of clothing.
You might belive in a monothiestic supreme being, if your christian this would be god, same for the Jewish communitys, Muslims, Allah ect; but also including many other religions who believe in one "god".
Missionary changed the way many south american countrys think and who they worshiped, all over the world missionarys have imposed there religion onto an idigiounous population who before the Monothiests arrived, were probably Polythiest and had as many gods as they had family members. Forever changing the traditions and values of familys througout the world.
Now in 10,000 years we've changed from hunting game in the forests to hunting the forest for a gain, and not just forests with trees in, forests of humans, collectively thinking the same things.
Compassion used for good can lead to cures for Cancer, encoding the human genome, even putting a human on mars in years to come, but too oftern the collective is thinking about problems that in an ideal world, need not worry them, I can be harsh and say "do i really need to worry about my friends who died or any of the people who died."
What about the people still here. maybe if we could all laugh for 10 mins a day depression would be 50% lower as scientist tell us.
I know there are bigger issues at stake around the world, global warming, global dimming, desalitation of the oceans, deforestisation, war, famine, and a multitude of very major, very current issues that are never as important as Dave from the pub owing you £20, or the latest in a long episode of depression that keeps repeating itself.
For the best part of five centurys mankind has been converting the world to western morals, traditions and capitalistic way of life. Only now they've started to like what it gets you, now were saying ooops, sorry, yes you were right when we 1st came, just let us live with nature and not against nature, I walk down a beach 30 miles from where i live there is a sea wall protecting the coastline, but from what the coast will always be there just not in the place you drew the map 350 years ago, its a very small detail but thats the whole point of this blog
what seems like a Assumptive small problem to you is a passionate and important issue for another, i would like people to see the planet and want to enjoy the world we live in free from restraints and work together to move into a period of time where we face concequences of previous actions, but if we do it together, we'll always be stronger,
think of Compassion like Chaos theory in predicting weather cycles, Chaos tells us a bird flapping its wings in china could effect the weather in Spain, and however hard or unfeesable that seems to be to comprehend its the truth, and compassion is the same, you have 1st got to learn to receive compassion, we have to learn to listen, you then need to give compassion on however small a scale for whatever issue, and finaly when the compassion encompasses enough people, we can take on these major issues that plague our planet today, but if we keep pushing and assuming our compassion, then im sorry your no better than the people who changed the thinking of the world so many years ago, your the caveman looking around his cave saying "yeah i like this place" where as we could be the people looking at the horizon wondering what lies over the edge.....
Learn to Love and respect no matter how trivial their problems may be and lets have Compassion we can Assume
Love to all Simon xxxxxxxxxx
