Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
This is certainly a glass-half-empty perspective but is very fitting given the environment you inhabit much of the time, living in a world in which you must compete continually to hold your own, to establish yourself or to get ahead, and certainly to excel compared to many, many others around you. You will need to use your ingenuity and all your talents and skills, and build them over time to make the most of your life in becoming something greater, and certainly compared to others, to outdo them, to outshine them, to outperform them, as often expected of you in a competitive world. You must give of yourself. This takes a toll, it drags people down, it disheartens and discourages them, particularly if they lack some of the same skills as others for whatever reason. Many times this is simply being disadvantaged, growing up in poverty without educational resources available, or not having two stable parents in the home, wanting to spend time with a child to raise it with encouragement, and consciously seeking ways to expose the child to cultural enrichment, and so on. The many variables often work against the average person who ends up falling short in their own expectations, and that is what this question mostly focuses upon, the gap between the haves and the have-nots. This is in the mind of the beholder more so than having a set of absolute standards.
The media certainly dangles many images in front of you promoting the accoutrements of status and superficial lifestyles of all sorts, perhaps by the rich and famous or simply by the people who are models, chosen for their looks, and given new cars to drive and model a lifestyle with such possessions, nice clothing, taking part in activities along with a happy family in tow, and so on. Many have these advantages but many do not, and we can tell you that your soul yearnings will greatly outreach whatever life affords you. This is as true for the rich and famous as it is for the average or underadvantaged individual. Those with seeming wealth, status, privilege, and power have many inner disappointments because the materialistic trappings of perceived accomplishment and status are not deeply satisfying and have little to offer the soul. In the same way that is said about the rich possessed of great wealth, that "you can't take it with you," the same is true of anything of a material nature. That is because nothing in the physical is truly needed by the soul, but rather a part of the environment around you and a kind of substitute for greater variety and pleasures, attainable through the manipulation of energy by consciousness, much of which cannot even take place for you as a physical being in a restricted mode of capability.
So here again is another perspective on dealing with lack as a major characteristic of the human dilemma. You are going through it for a reason, and that is to provide learning about difficulty, about sources of negativity, how to cope, how to surmount it if possible, and how to stay in divine alignment under the most difficult of circumstances. Much of the negativity people experience from this state of lack is settling for less rather than striving to find a better substitute for what might be desired but proves to be unreachable. There are not truly any dead-ends except as you let them be an endpoint and choose to not change course, to head in a differing direction, to find something else that might be better, for all you know. Surrendering to your fate is always a mistake because there will always be more to do and more to learn up until your last breath. It is wise to take advantage of all that life offers even if it is challenging and difficult. Every bit of the hard-won learning will serve you through all of time, and this is what is unappreciated in having the dour perspective of the glass-half-empty analysis you describe.
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