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G-Pop would like to take this morning just to establish that human beings are human.
Although the concept may seem to be a given, religion turns us into sinners who are transformed to saints; politics insist we are a “movement,” and entertainment proclaims that we are of value simply because we are born.
Life on Earth is much easier when you realize how to deal with its major inhabitants–at least those who have brain power beyond raiding a picnic or grazing in a pasture.
There are two things to learn about people, and if you choose to educate yourself, you become much better at loving others and happier on your path:
1. Human beings are always spontaneously selfish.
If the moment’s whim intrigues them, they will chase it like a puppy dog trailing a sausage. Even if they’re working on something else or committed to achieving a goal, an immediate opportunity will rob their attention span and take them off on a chicken track of “clucking things up.”
Don’t be critical.
Just realize the same attitude dwells in you. Then you can assist others by limiting distractions and understanding that they will be slowed down by the ones you were unable to prohibit.
2. Human beings are only obliquely aware.
When we report a tragedy in a foreign land, the tendency is to only tally the deaths of the Americans. We want to be better than this; we want to pretend we give a damn, but the more the degrees of separation diverge from our own household of concern, the less chance we have of focusing compassion.
Therefore it is important to make it clear to everyone you wish to motivate that the available situation does improve their personal space.
Now, before pouncing on G-Pop and saying that he is overly simplistic or cynical, realize that God, Himself, feels the need to offer eternal life to keep us interested in our present one.
God also teases us with the possibility of being “given to” as a by-product of giving.
And God certainly offers rewards for good behavior.
We are human.
We are spontaneously selfish and obliquely aware.
So even when we’re altruistic, we still need a payoff. Stop asking humans to be either devils or angels. Those jobs are filled.
G-Pop wants you to know that God is madly in love with the unpredictable nature of the human heart, because He is fully cognizant that when we actually create, generate and innovate, it is definitely an action of masterful purpose.
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