The Three Irrefutable Facts About Life

Hello. So today I was going about my usual business when I started thinking. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that all my perceived problems are traced back to three irrefutable facts of life. Every little problem I faced was not really caused by these facts, but instead were symptoms of these facts. They are signs that these facts are true and prove that this is the way things go in a sense.

1) Money is Progress and Progress is King
The, I suppose, whole point of why people keep doing what they do is for progress’s sake. You go to school to get an education to get a job to sustain yourself until you die. That is progress. The thing is that we linked all this progress to one easy to understand concept. Currency. People could not sustain themselves on their own. No one can grow and harvest their own food, build their house, beds, and vehicles, and make all the little trinkets that entertain them. Seeing as how the bartering system is vague and unreliable, we have fiat money. This isn’t a post about anti money or how that money is the root of all evil or anything. It’s simply about how everything about our existence is tied back to it. We get jobs to get money. We need money to feed and cloth ourselves. We use it to fund important scientific research and create cities. Everything that our society sees as progress is directly related to money. And that’s the thing. People are obsessed with progress. Their whole life revolves around progress. Society needs to keep going and going and going and going. Their is no plans for a stop or an end. Their isn’t any goal in mind except to keep going. And that’s why, sometimes, they despise us. People with depression or suicidal thoughts are often seen as dysfunctional. We do not wish to progress. Sometimes we quit our jobs, or stop going to school, or simply refuse to get out of bed. We do not do what were are supposed to do. The reason some people have such a problem with suicide is that it doesn’t result in any progress. It doesn’t provide anything like getting a job does or get people what they need. If you think about why other people want you to get better through therapy or medication, you would realize that they aren’t really doing this for you. They are doing it because you are impeding progress. You are an investment that isn’t doing what it is supposed to be doing, which segues into my next argument.

2) People, by the end of the day, are in it for themselves
It is in human nature to always look out for ones self. Besides progress, people live for themselves. We see it in everything person’s actions. Why did you get that one over the other one? Because this one is the one that benefited me. People express anger because it suites their needs at that time. People express sadness because it suites their needs at that time. It is the basis of all relationships, the desire to satisfy ones self. We surround ourselves with people and things that make us “feel good”. We do things that benefit us. Everyone and everything that we value is simply an investment to us. This is the case for everyone. Family, Friends, Lovers. They are around us because the see some sort of value in keeping us around. That’s the thing though. Once we lose our value, that’s it. We are tossed aside. Have you every had that friend that you would talk to and then all of a sudden they stopped talking to you? They just lost interest. That’s because they found the same value they found in you, but in someone else. They didn’t stop talking to you to spite you. They did it, because you no longer benefited them. Why keep around an old toy if you found something better? People tend to view the depressed and suicidal as broken. Nobody wants a broken toy. That’s why they lash out and get angry. They hate that an investment they made has gone bad. Some choose to stick around to try and “save” their investment while others simply just drop it and move on to the next one. You are probably wondering about the exceptions like, why do certain people do things for the greater good or why do people seek out other’s when you know that it will result in pain for them. This leads to my next argument.

3) Human desires are complicated
There is not a known “specific” reason for why people want the things they want. Why do people want love or happiness or something in between? Why do people do the things that do not benefit them, but for their investments. People will boil it down to a simple “Because it feels good and such and such” or “Well they see some benefit”. Now I know I said people do things for themselves and their needs, and that that justifies why they do these things. The thing is that is not what I’m talking about here. I know it benefits them in some way, but why does it benefit them is what I’m trying to get at. This section doesn’t make all that much sense and that’s what I’m trying to get at. Their isn’t really any specific answer to why this occurs. This part isn’t fleshed out as much as I would like it, but the general idea is, it’s really hard to tell as to why people see value in certain things. Not the simple answer, but the complex one.

This seems like rambling nonsense in some parts, and it definitely is. However, I feel that the general idea is there and that’s all I really wanted to convey. I don’t really know why I shared this random though (see rule three), but I am a bit glad that I did. Tell me what you think, if you can get through the whole post. If you are reading this I’m assuming you did. Or maybe you skipped to the end. I dunno. Well thanks for listening if you are.