I realized one day not too long ago that I was still looking to others as to why my life was not the way I wanted it to be. I guess to make matters worse, I was looking, actually I was expecting some success in the future that I will write about another day. After realizing what I was doing, and realizing it is a normal societal paradigm, I became interested in figuring out why we do it.

The reason it is important to start questioning this is it becomes a behavior which takes us away from what it means to be who we are. it is also a behavior which helps promote war and hate. When we look elsewhere for change to happen, we take our own power away. By expecting someone else to be the reason you succeed or fail, you take away your choice of how to live your life. Why would we choose to do that? I need to look at two things that human beings do that make absolutely no sense now that I’m sitting down and trying to look at it from more than one perspective. Because I realize now that the only person I have control over is me, and if I behave accordingly I will have great success that also falls onto my fellow man.

The first thing we do is look to politicians. I think you would have to agree with me that as a society we look to politics to make a difference, to stop the war, to put an end to rising interest rates. Unfortunately I can’t give you any particular time in history when voting has ever changed anything for anyone in any country. Not to mention there is some question about the true purpose of war. There are actually a lot of questions about the things we are told. How can that be if we are told the truth? Now that I sit down and think about it I don’t believe that the effort it takes to go to your local polling station is putting in enough that you would receive some change in return. The effort in, certainly is not at the same level as the expected change. Based on what is happening before our very eyes, I think if we look at politics for what it truly is, we would see that it is business people working on their businesses and using politics to help them do it. Could we postulate that by voting once every four years we do not live in what people consider a democratic society? Wouldn’t it be that if we lived in a democratic society we would be voting on everything that the government wanted to do, and government officials would be dismissed from their position if the country couldn’t stay within budget? And it wouldn’t be a four-year wait to do it. Why do we ask the politicians permission when we are the ones with the power? This makes no sense.

And the second example I want to use is the question I have of why we continue spending our money in the same way, with the same corporations, allowing the banks to keep us in debt, just like the country? Not to mention that most of the corporations we support are poisoning this planet, the people living on it, and in effect are going to make it so that our home becomes uninhabitable. Rather than asking them to make changes, which they have proven they won’t do, why wouldn’t we just stop spending our money on the product which is created through all of the waste they dump, the employees they exploit? What’s my point? If enough people stopped financially supporting corporations who are dumping waste into our water supply, the air, exploiting employees, these corporations would have to shut down by default because they have no money. Our water supply could become clean again. Human beings could become healthy. As the customer we have all the power, not only to control what the corporations are doing and how they are treating the planet, we can control who controls our politicians. Already everything is connected and we have to remember that there are companies who want to treat our home and its inhabitants the way it needs to be. Rather than looking elsewhere for change I need to ask myself where I can spend money so that it will help create change by default. Why haven’t we realized that the way we spend our money gives us great power and is one of the contributing factors in what happens to society as a whole?