Totally blind


In the chapter "Seeing", I have written about human beings who do not really see. 
They read a letter but do not see what is written. They just read a part of it and they 
think they know the complete subject. These people do not really see what is going on, 
because they do not look! That is the reason that they do not realise what actually 
happens to them.

However, enough about that seeing. I want to talk about "blind" people!

Perhaps, you know someone who is blind. However, I don't want to talk about those 
people either! I want to talk about people who have two healthy eyes, but still cannot 
see what is going on. More importantly, they do not see what others are doing to them.

We are talking about people, who behave like a flock of sheep; Walk behind each 
other and do exactly what the "first" sheep tells them to do! At this moment, we live in 
a world where most people move in groups, following a leader.
One person, often with millions of people behind him, does what he wants. Does that 
sound familiar to you? How is it in your country? On the other side, there are groups 
we call the opposition. They are against the leading group, but here again, we have 
a particular person whom they follow!
Groups fight, make wars and try to kill each other. Just because they have been told 
to do so. Most of these leaders are far away from the problems themselves. They sit 
high and dry and watch what happens.

Strange that millions of people, not millions but billions, don't have their own opinion. 
They only do what some mighty people tell them to do. Not only presidents, kings or 
ministers act that way. What do you think about churches? Here too, the leaders and 
their churches make many people unhappy. These leaders mostly think about their 
own wealth and how to gather more! All these followers are "blind" sheep; They do 
not think and cannot see what is really happening to them.

Why, can't we humans see what is going on? Why do human beings walk behind 
those people? Maybe that is the easiest way? Are they so easy-going and believe 
everything they are told? Or are they afraid of those leaders? Are we really willing to 
give our life away for those few people? To all these questions, we answer a big YES! 
We do not want anything of that really. However, we are blind, lazy and we prefer the 
easy way. With that, we throw our life away and believe we get an easy one instead. 
FORGET IT! This will be a lost life and certainly not an easy one, because by doing 
so, you go through life blinkered. That one life is important to you and nobody else. 
If you throw it away, you waste that moment and therefore, you will have to redo it.

Open your eyes and see what is going on. See what others are doing to you; 
Take distance, DON'T FIGHT. Instead, tell them: From now on, I do it my way; the way 
I feel I should solve the problems I will get on my path. Open your eyes and see what is 
really going on. You will find the solutions to the problems yourself.

There will be no more sheep, no blind sheep, but a human being with his own view on life.

Take off that blindfold and start now.

(BR061235)