What is the last thing you learned?
It is not that hard working people succeeds because they are working hard. Good people don’t always get good things and there is righteous people that perishes in their righteousness and there are wicked people that prolong their days. That knowledge and understanding of science and earthly knowledge does guarantee that we will get food to eat. By the time we are dying, often in hospital bed, there is nothing that really matters about our lives and all the things we have done or acquired in life. All that we ever held in great regard is no longer exciting to us.
In my days on earth, i have seen highly educated people rotting in poverty. I have seen highly intelligent and skilled people rotting in jail. Yet i have seen unschool and illiterate making millions of money and ruling and exploiting well educated people.so i concluded that it is not always true that diligent hands will succeed and prosper.
I also noted that the world is not ruled by people of talent but people that happened to be in a certain position at a particular time. I have also seen seen strong and mighty people dying like animals and have seen poor people of the land living hundred years.
There are people who has not worked very hard in life yet they live in affluence, but there are those that wake up to do donkey’s work daily, yet they die in poverty and live their offsprings to the mercy of the world.
So in my pursuit to understand what life is all about i came across the following words and agreed with them.
“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all”.
I also noted that that has a breath of life has potential to succeed and so anyone living in luxury has potential of sinking to misery.
I have noted that man is a very vulnerable creature that does not understand his vulnerability. He is also extremely selfish creature that follows only those things that will give him pleasure, right now or likely to make him happy later in his days. That human beings does not know exactly what they want in life, yet they are in constant pursuit of imaginary very pleasant thing that will give them the ultimate joy, yet they live the world without ever getting it. That most often all the thoughts of man is toward causing trouble and anxiety. And man is inclined toward evils than good, no wonder newsagents focus on bad news and ignore the good word. Am agreeing with this words:
“This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.”
I learnt that people want to have much more possessions than everybody else.
I also learnt about the ever struggle among men to dominate their neighbors, that people always want to be better than anyone else and their is comfort and joy that comes when people find that their neighbors are below them in possessions and status. I learnt that even your greatest friend is innately very unhappy when you are better than them and people are naturally jealousy. People are attached to you as long as they have something useful they can get from you and that to maintain people that surrounds you, may it be friends, lovers or wife, you must have something useful attached to you. This is what causes celebrities to be followed by many people and poor people to be abandoned even by their relatives. Women live men when they are broke and wealth men attracts a lot of women because human beings are highly attracted to things than to men. The same reason applies to us getting tools to maximize profit making in our companies at the expense of people we retrench.
That a man is in constant pursuit of comfort and avoidance of pain and so will seek people or things that can give him comfort and he/she will avoid miserable people that has been beaten by misfortunes because they make her uncomfortable.But man is never comfortable and his soul is always in search of something that can satisfy them.
When am using him, i mean both him and her because there is no neutral word to represent both.
Man is a tool animal and what makes man’s life much meaningful is his tools.
All this thing i have learnt in my pursuit of wisdom and have become sorrowful because i have seen all things as useless.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
please tell me about what you make out of life in comment section.
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