People, mostly my friends, have occasionally inquired as to why I prefer to stay indoors and read without being bothered by anything other than reading and doing something I enjoy, which is mostly reading. While the outdoors are enjoyable, the indoors are mind-blowing (for me). Perhaps I'm introverted
And while this type of conversation may occasionally be about writing or rather reading on hive and occasionally commenting (which I don't do much of these days for various reasons) on my favorite authors and other authors/posts I find interesting, it could really be about anything.
Obviously, it is what most people nowadays enjoy discussing. Why do you do what you do, whether it is right or wrong? However, we all seem to be curious about the hows and whys, as well as the rights and wrongs.
People prefer to be told the how's and why's, as well as the rights and wrongs, rather than figuring it out for themselves and experiencing it firsthand without a middleman.
To put this we like being told what to do
While being told what to do may or may not be a good thing, wouldn't it be more thrilling and exciting to find what one seeks on one's own rather than trying to find quick information on how to and how not to. Why go that route every day for every problem when we can seek and find solutions for ourselves through self realization on how to get things done and how not to do things even after we've asked for guidance?
However, it appears that this is how we are wired. It's almost as if we've been raised and groomed to be that way - to always do what others do and at all times because we believe that the way of doing things he or she has discovered is profound and will have the same effect in our lives if we do the same. It's as if we've been programmed to become accustomed to it through today's educational system, which is designed to help you live your life and become a successful individual without asking why they have to in the first place. When you hit a block, take it to the teacher and have him or her break it for you.
One of the things that plagues today's young minds is not bothering or devoting time to the blockage or problem in order to determine whether or not we are capable of solving it ourselves.
Its like we are always helpless and vulnerable in every situation
*She made me do it or the devil made me do it type of scenario you see play out today on social media and in almost every nation with almost every teen or young adult. But really its more like its affecting everyone. until it doesn't
The victim hood occult appears to be growing in size, and no one wants to break the block or escape the matrix because the government is supposed to be breaking them and protecting the people from harm.
*The right way is that citizens has to be protected and helped in every way.
If there is a recession, print more money to assist the people. But who is really assisting who remains a mystery that we will have to discover for ourselves, or we could simply follow blindly - keep printing, it's the right way to get things done.
.It happens in cooking competitions as well. Where there is talk of a secret ingredient, which is usually passed down from generation to generation, those of us who have found one for ourselves (now) don't consider it a secret.
Because it's all right in front of us; it's only a secret when we don't see it. For example, we've been able to imbue ourselves with knowledge through unlimited information on the internet and through books, but we close our eyes to these things and see scarcity where there is abundance.
Consider the birth of Bitcoin, the first digital currency. It would be unfortunate if it remained hidden from the public eye and was regarded as a private asset only used by a select few.
Even after the invention of bitcoin. Innovation did not stop there; it also gave birth to a new ingredient: alternative coins such as eth, Sol, and steem. But, as we all know, steem began to become a secret ingredient shared among a select few, making it increasingly difficult for people to use, which eventually led to us discovering a new ingredient for ourselves that isn't a secret but is available to everyone, and the innovation never stopped but continued to grow.
New Token, Ingredient and a new way
So which is the right token of all or the right way to go - There isn't one, you can only follow where your feet goes and your hearts desires, like I'm doing here on hive.
Even now with Hive
We're currently submerged in a puddle of hive engine tokens, and it's not going away. The point is, however, that there is no single solution to the problem that digital assets are intended to solve.
Bit coin is the solution for some, Eth is also it for many and hive does the job just fine for those who knows about it and see what's right in front of them.
This shows there is no specific ingredient to add to our lives or a one entity solution to all our problems because bit coin may do it for you while Hive does it better for me.
If we do not find it for ourselves and simply believe in everything, it will not (in most cases) result in anything fulfilling. I could ask my teacher what he thinks is the best way to be a good investor, and he would simply tell me to keep saving my money in banks. But that doesn't mean he's wrong or right, but that he only made his opinion based on his experience and not really on mine because he can't know my life and no one will have the right answer for us unless we find it ourselves even if they point us to it - you need to realize it for yourself either through reading books or follow what your teacher told you- saving your money in the bank or even stacking bitcoin because a friend told you to without doing any research on why you need or need not to.
When a student discovers how to be an inquirer on his own, he does not have to accept everything the teacher says as true (or false), but instead questions the teacher and his doctrines. However, in today's system, this is frowned upon, which stifles creativity (and creative thinking) and serves no purpose for either the teacher or the student.
You might get a hard knock if you tell your teacher that he could save and earn more with HBD and earn 20% instead of inflation eating away all his gains in the banks.
People living life based on the opinions of others and the options deemed to be better I would term mere followers and not seeker therefore not really living nor growing thru their experiences.
For many these days the only way to know what is the right or wrong way of doing things is thru google or whatever twitter says about crypto.
But how can we know what is right or wrong for us unless we first look for it? I know that technology has made it easier to be a follower, but even if we do follow, it should be to point us in a new or different direction that we seek for ourselves.
I'll conclude with a popular quote from a popular actor and philosopher: a teacher is merely a pointer to what the student must seek for himself ~bruce Lee*.
In short we as humans are meant to go beyond others teachings and enlighten ourselves more thru our own experiences and our own ways of doing things. either right or wrong, we will have to figure that out by ourselves.
For others, it could be something else, but you don't need to look at what others are doing just to do what they do; instead, find your own, and if it relates to what others are doing, you can ask them for more information.
Have a wonderful day
Until next time