Order from Chaos

The natural state of affairs is one of disorder and chaos. Nature has its own equilibirum, but we impose our own order on our world for human comfort, and we impose order on our own thoughts and morality to better our standard of living. It takes a lot more more effort for things to to go right, than for things to go wrong. Reflect that there only needs to be one thing out of place for things to go wrong; everything needs to be in place for things to go right.

In this process it is easy for human beings to make mistakes, and many of us do. Under pressure from other misguided, unscrupulous people, we often make decisions which are not in fact in our own interests. The important thing is that we are open minded and learn from such mistakes and evolve them out of our lives. Happy living involves trying to impose order on chaos, and learning what is best for us – identifying values which will make us happy, maximising the good and minimising the bad. The trouble is, the ability to do this properly is, for many people, a skill which has to be learnt, and some never learn it.