This is not a soft meditation or a contemplative sway into the nature of good, but more a warning of the veils and lies governing our lives. What is good? This is in most cases outside the obvious good serving the human life very subjective. The greatest good for you is dependent upon your current point of view and it will most certainly be interconnected with yearning – the thing you’re deprived of becomes the greatest good. It’s a paraphrase of the grass which is always greener on the other side and is in its core rooted in a destructive feeling of envy.

How many of your desires are truly yours, and how many of them have been shaped by wanting something you were told you should want? We learn to envy by example. When you’re little you don’t care at all about someone’s status. If he’s ready to play you’re in, no matter if he/she has better shoes than you. As you grow up you begin to notice stratifications in lifestyle, status, economic power and begin to set your sights as polarities of wanting some things and despising other – having a place to go and a place to run away from. This is a point when you become obsessive and stop seeing things and people as they are. Life gets distorted and disfigured through the prism of that deep set desire or disgust. You need to get to a point of clarity where you can see the reality as is and work with it and not against it. You need to see the real in order to be able to handle it properly, your willing blindness won’t do any good, it is easy but destructive. Envy propels the economy and this is how societies become perverted as well. We begin to perceive this distorted as a new normal because a long enough repeated lie becomes the truth. Don’t allow your unexamined impulsive desires to get in a way of you, to sacrifice all you have for the sake of all of the things you feel you lack and therefore put them on a pedestal.

There is a beautiful geometry of existence if you live in tune with the truth. There is nothing extraordinary you need to do to justify it. Just see it, accept all things as they are and work with what you have right here and right now while you figure it out. Engineer yourself in such a way that you can grasp the full potential of being human with all its embarrassing and glorious moments, twists and turns, with all digressions from the path and subsequent returns to it. Truth will set you free if you don’t ignore it and if you refuse to live a lie.