Rescue

We will not be res­cued in this life from being human. Dis­trac­tions will be pre­sented. Drugs will be pre­scribed (and acquired on the black mar­ket), but we will not escape what­ever “pain” it is to be human. The prob­lem lies in over-believing the pain and under-believing the plea­sures. Just breath­ing is a pretty good deal. If you have a pretty good meal, you are set for sev­eral hours. Think­ing that your body will always feel like it did at six­teen is an illu­sion. By now you have to real­ize that you must phi­los­o­phize your way through the decay.

Soci­eties rise and fall. The human sit­u­a­tion has peaks and val­leys. Your own exis­tence will face increased lim­i­ta­tions. The sooner you make the tran­si­tion from sit­u­a­tion to des­ti­na­tion the bet­ter off you will be. What­ever course your life began, it will end. Resis­tance is futile. Learn to go with it in style.

Fac­ing what is brings the best results. Avoid­ance cre­ates quite a mon­ster. Sooner or later the “ele­phant in the liv­ing room” must be addressed (and it takes many forms). You are your own best res­cuer in prac­ti­cal mat­ters. Do not assign the task to oth­ers. They are too busy try­ing to fig­ure out what to do with their own emo­tional and life-circumstance avalanches.

The point of the Chris­t­ian mes­sage is that the ulti­mate res­cue has taken place. Trust it. There is more power behind it than what you can muster. What has been a prob­lem (the lost-ness of being human) has now become an adven­ture. Pur­sue it.