In a world of endless advertizement, an atmosphere of completely unstructured competition, and excessively lavish consumerism, the world is bloated and weak. Everyone feels resentment against the world for their own weaknesses, yet nobody wants to go the distance required to be any better. The world is filling to the brim with half baked personalities who age and sour into immoral and loathesome people. Yet there is still hope, as long as there is a single person with the knowledge and ability to affect a positive structure, even if they are only able to make their own life healthy, we will all have a chance to become better individuals at some point.

 

It is difficult for people to take it all in, but we all tend to lie to ourselves about things. The biggest area of untruth involves perception of reality. Usually people try to talk themselves into believing that their ideas are always correct, or that their loved ones can not tell them things that are wrong. Many people decide that whatever they are doing is right and the best way to live. Others simply refuse to change their bad habits. I myself am at fault, and have many bad habits that I am halfheartedly trying to break. This is a serious epidemic and must be eradicated in the way human beings conduct themselves. Illusion should not get in the way of reality. It is really a disease worse than cancer and diabetes.

 

Step one in the recovery process is admitting that you may be wrong in some area of your life, even if you don't know what that could be, or are trying to tell yourself that you don't know. It is extremely important not to feel bad about this and get on with your life. Try it out with a friend or relative until you are not shocked or embarrassed about it. Try play acting in a very blunt or even rude manner to further toughen your resolve against any feelings of guilt which are actually the root of your emotional responses. Nobody is perfect, and the amazing paradox is that even if you can't understand yourself, you can understand others. Most people really do understand other things better than they understand themselves.

 

The next step is identifying something in yourself that may be a problem and solving it. Maybe you get in arguments with someone that never end, well, use a search engine and look up the topic of your argument. If you are wrong you may resolve the issue however you are accustomed. I myself don't really do anything to resolve an issue, the resolution is the disappearance of the problem itself. Of course your customs may be different.

 

In this age of information and discovery, everyone should be looking for the answers to their problems. Problems don't just fix themselves, and more problems tend to build up on top of old ones. Think of something that you do a lot each day, for me it is using computers. Now remember to think of a problem you have that can be solved by using information, and try another way to solve the problem each time you start or finish your most common activity. I myself have developed bad allergies, so I have been researching the cause of allergies and ways to get rid of the cause. Remember that most solutions only get rid of the symptoms, don't settle for any solution that allows your problem to come back any time soon.

 

Remember, it is bad to defend your flaws. Your flaws are there whether you talk about them or not, how about getting rid of the source of conversation and eliminate the flaw. If your problem is permanent, remind others not to complain about something they can't get fixed. If you can fix something, try fixing it instead of complaining. Also remember that most people under-estimate themselves. If you are one of those people, you may be lacking in life experience and you have been wasting your time. How can you learn your limits? Stretch yourself TO your limits. Try tests of balance, tests of sight, tests of resistance from temptation, tests of strength, tests of knowledge, tests of speed, etc., etc.

 

Also, I have noticed way too often that people tend to associate discomfort with emotions such as hate, fear, anger, and sadness. Discomfort is often a part of growth. You should never hate discomfort, in fact, try looking at it as a test of endurance. If exercizing makes you tired, you don't hate exercise, you are making yourself stronger. If studying makes you frustrated, don't hate study, you are getting smarter. In fact, positive feelings toward things can make them more effective, and negative feelings toward things can make them less effective, so hating exercise may make you a weakling, and hating study may make you stupid.

A mentally healthy person does not become shocked or scared out of their minds without a very good reason. Your fight/flight impulses will become enabled, you will feel the need to run or defend yourself.  You will not find yourself logically afraid of something that you find out will not hurt you. If your body does decide to react in fear, you will logically resist it and try to stay calm.

 

To the contrary, people who are deluded by shock, people who are not mentally healthy, will not let go of their fears. A mentally sick person, of the type that is not really considered ill, will decide to fight or run from something that does not oppose them. They will often decide not to like someone for no reason, or they will scream and yell to a faint over something as simple as a broken dish. These people will spend time arguing over things that don't matter, and will often have self-image problems. These people usually suffer from this condition all their lives and have given themselves over to it. They believe in randomly blocking someones path for no reason, or denying someone from doing something that scares them - yet the other person is totally safe with doing. They will rant about how a certain food, which only they have trouble with, is the devil's spawn and must be eradicated. They may be racist or sexist or hypocondriac because of these tendencies.

 

Having a bias (or prejudice) is a way of life for most people. It is not normal for some people not to like a certain team and hate the opposing teams. Perhaps one way of eating is considered normal, and all other ways are considered strange. Maybe you like the TV remote that you use, but not your neighbor's, simply because you are not used to it. Maybe you like one brand of macaroni&cheese and don't like another because it tastes different. In this way we make ourselves unique and give ourselves a clear path of choices to make. Without such bias, we migh be hopelessly drowned in the vast arrays of choices that everyone has to face at one time or another in their lives. Most people face choices regularly. I myself am not an extremely bias person in cases where one thing is as good as another via usefulness. I do not have a favorite team or a favorite brand, and I do not hate certain foods or dislike my neighbor's TV remote. Of course, there are many other options that I could not hope to cover, but you should be able to think of some based on what I have given.

 

There is also an area of bias which is to be avoided specifically. This is when deciding how you think about other people. Make sure that you have a well defined general set of right and wrong things in life. Make sure you understand that killing is bad, excluding people because of differences is bad, and forcing your opinions upon others is bad. This is an era where there are well defined facts. If you can't back up your opinion with enough facts, don't force it on anyone. In the days I am writing this, parents don't even decide their child's bias anymore, society does. In the old days, parents spent more time making their children do work and beating them, making them think the same way they do by force, at least the vast majority. Bias which you should never spread around or act negatively upon include (bias against, including disgust at or fear of) skin colors, accents, conflicting bias, faiths, origins, and relatives.

 

The deluded person will be shocked by their predetermined notions and biases and want to attack it, such as when a racist man/woman looks upon someone of the target race and becomes very angry. The person may dwell on the location and movements of the person in order to do something harmful to him/her. Some people are deluded into thinking that a certain food, which has always been consumed by humanity, is bad, and therefore try to get it banned and possibly go as far as destroying crops and livestock. Others will think badly about a religion by the impression they get from someone claiming to be of that religion, with no knowledge of the religion itself, and will try to get those people to be despised in some elaborate witch hunt or exclusionary measure.

 

As an even more extremist note, I believe that mentally and physically impared people should still be given the options to follow the professions that they are challenged by, specifically in the educational system. They should be helped to learn, not simply to pass, what they are interested in, not for the express purpose to do something which they are not capable of, but to allow them to feel like their lives have meaning, if such things have that effect on them, which I have seen in a few.

The human being is the greatest actor of the kingdom of life. We can immitate anything we can hear, see, feel, smell, or taste. We can learn from how animals do things, and we are even capable of learning that which is specific to our own species, and improving upon it. Different people can act like eachother, and they can act like people they've never known. People can become characters in a play, or even become fantastic characters that are never seen in real life, except through the television screen. People can even immitate machines, and make machines that immitate them, or eachother, or anything. Humans can create things that think faster than anything known to life, and things that are stronger than anything living.

 

Now it is not surprising that people would get mixed up in all of this. Perhaps you have an identity crisis from so much clutter and so many options of how to act and what to do. Maybe you simply can't decide, or maybe you can't acheive what you have decided upon. The individual is not only capable of immitating things that exist, but becoming things that never existed. People can do original things that only a human being would think of, or only an individual out of millions would think of. So why would it not surprise me, amidst all of this power, amidst all of this extreme sounding skill and ability of humanity, that a single individual would have one of the simplest of problems? The answer is that people do not know what they are capable of, in fact, it is not possible for any individual to be completely aware of all of thier options.

 

Why then do I title my essay as "the all-being" if they don't even comprehend most of it? Well, this is simple, for the fact is that we do not need to comprehend ourselves fully in order to accomplish what we may. We do not need to understand all of the complexities that are hidden within the mind that make all of the human powers seem so simple and easy to do. For you see, humans have the ability to create devices that can comprehend. These devices are called computers. They can comprehend everything that is required of them, with room to spare. As a personal device, a computer is a somewhat simple tool, but as a device for mass networking such as www.google.com, it becomes an incomprehensible object in itself. What are you capable of? What is the internet capable of? You will never comprehend it fully, and neither will I.

 

What then is the point to these ramblings? Why am I telling you that you are not smart enough to understand yourself? Well, it is partly true, if you choose to spend your life learning about humanity, you'd never finish your learning, and you would probably not remember all of it. Why again am I giving you this precious information? Well, the simple answer is that I don't want you to under estimate yourself. I truly dislike with a passion when someone under estimates his/her self, and I really dislike when a group of people under estimate themselves. When people do this horrible act, they lower themselves to existing for themselves. They decide that since they are insignificant and they can not make any difference in the world, that they should not try and they should simply pleasure themselves until they die.

 

I do not believe that life is here for us to simply exist, reproduce, and then die, without putting something into the world. I also understand the service industry, so I will allow about 2/3 of people to go free if they decide to help others as their insignificant job, putting nothing remarkable into the world, but keeping it alive to exist. Everyone else, people who are healthy in mind or in body, can and must join a group of people who are trying to change the world to be better. I prefer them to do one of the following: gathering information, making a tool, teaching eachother, and changing the law to make it safer and easier. These are the things I disapprove of: making devices to kill people, destroying information, making anyone dumber, being the attacker in a war, and going into politics for personal gain.

 

Remember, you can make a general idea of the human potential, but you can not comprehend it all. Doing so would be a waste of time and effort that you could be using to research something that we don't already know, or by making something that would make life easier for everyone. We should be on other planets by now, we should have solved world hunger, we should all volunteer to live in a unified global country by accepting our differences and eliminating damaging behavior. There are many amazing things to be done, and any smart or strong person can join in. Everyone has something that they could be doing, and everything can be improved upon.