Why do we make life so difficult and hard ?

Question

To be given life is the ultimate gift. When we are first born we have the right to cry or laugh. When we grow up we have the freedom to choose the way we want to be. Humans were born with rights equal to every other living thing but because of our unlimited desire human life is often of less quality than most other animals.

A small bird wakes up early in the morning singing a song waking the other birds, merrily looking for food, spending a short time to get all the bugs and grain she needs to fill her small stomach, then spending the rest of her time playing, singing, and courting. She spends a few days to build her beautiful nest. She doesn?t work too much to get the food she needs everyday. Her life is easy. She has a lot of time to play and enjoy living together with the other birds.

Humans have small stomachs as birds do. Just to have enough to eat we too do not have to work a lot in one day. If we want to build a house, we can build one in a few weeks. We can then have a lot of free-time in our life to play and enjoy life together as well. Now days people choose to work very hard, at least 8 hours per day. They work like machines just to have some food to eat even though the food they eat is not good quality. They eat the old plants and animals that have been dead many months in a can or in frozen packages. They have to live in a crowded house like a termite. If they want their own house they have to spend at least one half of their life or maybe all of their life to work for that house. Life is busy and hectic all the time.

We can see only complications with no space for beauty and freedom. We create suffering for ourselves because we don?t know the purpose of life. We are blinded and our soul turns to darkness. We can?t see beauty. We can?t enjoy living. We have only fear growing in our minds everyday. We begin to distrust other people. We cannot be friends with others around us, even relatives or family members. Our lives are lonely, even though the world is full of people. Even though we have a lot of material goods and wealth we still feel like it?s not enough. Even thought other people give us love, we still don?t trust them. We are even disturbed by the rooster?s morning call and we?re proud to say in the middle of this confusion and suffering that this is development and we are civilized.

Why do humans choose to live their life in a difficult and complicated life like this? What do we receive from our hard work all our life? Why is the simple and peaceful way not attractive to people? Life is easy, why do we make it hard?

If we think we are the most clever animal in the world, why do we make our life full of bitterness and suffering more than any other animal? Why do we have to work harder than other animals? Why do we make our lives so boring? Why don?t we have time for our kids and family or even time for ourselves? These are the instincts of all life. In 24 hours we spend more than 10 hours struggling with what we call work or said nicely, ?making a living?. We spend on average less than 8 hours sleeping and 2.5 hours a day eating, maybe .5-1 hour bathing/dressing. This leaves 3 hours left for ourselves and our family in our day. Mostly we spend this time intoxicating ourselves with entertainment such as drinking, going to parties, shopping, watching movies or watching TV. Even on our day off we love to spend the time on entertainment. We don?t see the importance of spending time with family or ourselves because we think we don?t have time. So we are not different from machines or robots because we have lost our heart and soul.

Our kids are like our pets. We take care of them enough to feed them and keep them safe but we neglect to think about their mind and soul. Kids want to be loved and cared for and to feel close to their parents but we think it?s a burden so we push them away by sending them to pre-school. Then we appease ourselves by telling ourselves we?ve done the best by them by giving them good food and expensive schooling so we can have more time to give to working and we can tell ourselves that we work for our kids. But we don?t know if the kids want what we give them or not. We assume we have given the best to them. If the kids know how to compare, they must be jealous of other animals like ducks seeing their whole family playing and looking for food together. But to be born as a human kid is so lonely. They become orphaned even though they have parents. They spend more time with strangers than their parents.

We are losing our instincts. We are destroying the system of life which our ancestors developed and lived successfully with for many thousands of years. Now we become the only animals that work this hard. Even in the past people didn?t work as hard or long as they do now except slaves and prisoners. What made people see slavery as progress or development? What is the reason people choose to live like this? Life is easy, why do we choose to make it so hard and complicated? What makes us think life has no choice when in fact we have a lot of choice?

Answer 1

You chose it amd you make it that way.
jtm

Answer 2

Okay....you must live in a house (shack)....with no running water or electricity....outdoor plumbing (if you know what I mean)....As wonderful as it sounds....the reality is....an individual still has to live within the realm of what the outside world dictates to us....you can choose to have a meager existence....that is fine....but it doesn't stop the electric company to continue to raise their rates....or the gas companies....or medical care from stripping stealing every last cent from you if you have the misfortune to require their services....I would love the simple life....but the plain and simple truth is....it doesn't exist any longer.....other people's choices do dictate how our lives are going to be rather we like it or not....so either get on the merry go round and suck it up....or get tromped on as others are getting on.

Answer 3

In the voyage of life we also need our maturity and in times we face this world the difficulty and hardiness is our mentor. We drew things and picking so much as you said we born and we grow, we wanted the best but it seem be good. I do my way and you do yours and other may do their ways guest this, there are people think that i was an idiot but my way is to understand their opinion and it is good for me, that my way a difficulty and hard is a part of an argue every-time and everyday in our life in our reality.

Answer 4

GAH! If you want to write a book, go somewhere else!

Birds do not spend their morning "merrily looking for bugs" and being content once their stomach is full. They eat all the time, their metabolism is very high so they have to constantly eat.

Answer 5

it seems to me you think life is ****, that you have no choice.people are doing what they like. really: even if it is very bad for him, he doesnt change the situation. why,why,why? i say : why not? u dont understant that people choose.yes, they choose to live like that.they have children, and avoid spending time with them because they dindnt think what a child really means, so they hire a stranger and so on.
life is simple if you choose to be simple.
people like a complicated life for various reasons: because the others are like that; to prove to themselves and others they can; they dont know anything else; they are afraid to try smth else etc.
i dont think life was simpler or easier in the past. it was complicated since we got where we are today.
if you want a change u have to start with yourself. what do you want?

Answer 6

Life isn't hard. Life isn't always "fair". Life is what it is and nothing more. If you chose to make it hard then it is. If you chose to go with the flow, life is much easier.

Think positive for a change.

Answer 7

Life is not hard, it only needs some positive thinking

Answer 8

The third grade was like that to me. After my fourth time it got better.

Answer 9

Who are these people you are talking about? Are they living on some tiny Island in your head?

Answer 10

First, I read your question only and not that long *** book you wrote but the answer? Because we are bored.