The three most important things in life
The three cornerstones of life
For me, the three cornerstones of life are order, discipline, and service to our fellow humans. These principles are crucial in creating a meaningful and harmonious existence. Order brings structure to our lives, discipline drives us to achieve our goals, and service connects us deeply with others, fostering a sense of community and purpose. Join me in exploring how these values shape our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
Observations of nature have taught me throughout life that order is the most important and most powerful tool you have to be able to successfully maneuver the sometimes treacherous paths down which our lives take us.
Most people have no idea what order is and I will try to explain in layman's terms what it is and how important it is.
First, however let us look at the opposite of order: disorder
The results of the disorder
It is not very difficult to look around us and we will find, especially if you have been around for a while that the world is rapidly plummeting into a state of disorder. Disorderly conduct is quickly becoming the norm in children, families, relationships, businesses, politics, and the list goes on and on. Mass murders in schools is fashionable nowadays.
It is as if there is a virus spreading quickly amongst the populations. It is as if something is working on the background that is forcing humanity to succumb to disorderly conduct and the worst part of it is that it is totally out of and beyond their control.
If we want to understand this phenomenon we have to take a closer look at what has changed dramatically over the past 100 years and find some clue as to where this incredible force to move away from order is coming from.
This was the first step that started a shift in the way humanity until that moment was accustomed to living.
Before this period of history, man mainly lived on land; farming and crafts were the norms. When you are a farmer you are intimately locked into nature and you must live in a close relationship with it in order to be successful at farming. If you do not take care of the animals or your crops you could be doomed. If you did not take note of the seasons of the year disaster was sure. If you did not save for hard times or times when you could not harvest starvation was assured. If you did not live in close relationships with your neighbors there would inevitably be materials that you lack that you would not be able to acquire and when you needed help you would not have anyone to assist you whatever the need may be.
The industrial revolution changed many things.
Man started the migration to crowded cities and left the land behind. Obviously, he also left behind his intimate relationship with nature and everything else that comes with that relationship. We must recognize that no matter how far away we move from nature, it will always be nature that will have to sustain us, We can transform many things but we cannot recreate them or fashion them to our own personal liking or suit our own desires without upsetting its natural course. Once the natural course of life has been upset, disorder sets in, greed becomes the norm, and apathy for our environment and fellow men follows.
The effect of living between concrete walls, traveling over concrete to work, and dealing with machines and mass production, robotics, numbers, and coding started to take its toll. In order for society to function it had become necessary to invent new norms and new systems to control man. Inherently the more you try to control a man the more he will rebel until at a certain point dissent and disorder will set in
The result of the disorder
We are just about now starting to see the full effect of all of the changes of the 20th century manifesting itself in our children, families, governments, society, and nature itself and I warn you that this is only the beginning. The further we move away from order the worst it is going to become.
Mind you that by order I do not mean control. Control is having things done by means of alternate sanctions if you do not comply. It is coupled with a type of forceful conduct. If you don't do this then that.... I mean that there is a right way and a wrong way to conduct ourselves in everything we do and we cannot compromise this "order" or we risk disorder and all of the resulting negative fallout.
The other factor that plays a major role in your life is discipline. Without we will be decimated. We will quickly melt down into chaos.
Just imagine if tomorrow all of the users of traffic decided we are not going to follow any rules, no discipline at all what do you think would happen. Well by the end of the day, millions would be dead and the destruction to our physical infrastructure would be so severe it would take many years to repair. Discipline requires conscious effort where one assures that certain things are done in a certain way. Unlike order which has to do with what is right and what is wrong discipline is more about how we go about doing things. No one is born with it and it must be part of our education and training.
Once a person realizes its importance then they can propagate it and practice it until it becomes second nature. This is the reason why it is so important to discipline our children because as mentioned above no one is born with it. If a child is left up to itself it will indefinitely become rude and undisciplined and when it becomes a teenager and later an adult it will manifest all kinds of socially unacceptable behaviors. In order to live in an orderly society discipline is a must. No one needs any sort of discipline if they live on a deserted island by themselves and even so, if they are not disciplined at they will eventually succumb to nature and the dangers that lurk therein.
Service is the last of the Corner Stone. Without service, man could not live as a collective body. It is one of the founding principles of all religions. Man was born to serve. To assist their community, their parents and children, and their spouses. Those who do nothing but take, take, take are parasites. They cannot sustain themselves in one place and are constantly on the move migrating from one failure to another. They are not loved by anyone and are despised by all. Eventually, they die alone.
Think of the great leaders; Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, and many others and mainly Jesus Christ what did all have in common: An insatiable desire to serve and sometimes under the most trying conditions enduring hardships and pain that no ordinary man has ever dreamed about bearing. Yet these people have brought about profound changes in their environment have helped millions and have a legacy that will exist until the time is no more.
Devoting your life to serving others is one of the few things you can do on this earth that will build your soul and propel you into the next.
Thank you for reading
For me, the three cornerstones of life are order, discipline, and service to our fellow humans. These principles are crucial in creating a meaningful and harmonious existence. Order brings structure to our lives, discipline drives us to achieve our goals, and service connects us deeply with others, fostering a sense of community and purpose. Join me in exploring how these values shape our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
Order
Observations of nature have taught me throughout life that order is the most important and most powerful tool you have to be able to successfully maneuver the sometimes treacherous paths down which our lives take us.
Most people have no idea what order is and I will try to explain in layman's terms what it is and how important it is.
First, however let us look at the opposite of order: disorder
The results of the disorder
It is not very difficult to look around us and we will find, especially if you have been around for a while that the world is rapidly plummeting into a state of disorder. Disorderly conduct is quickly becoming the norm in children, families, relationships, businesses, politics, and the list goes on and on. Mass murders in schools is fashionable nowadays.
It is as if there is a virus spreading quickly amongst the populations. It is as if something is working on the background that is forcing humanity to succumb to disorderly conduct and the worst part of it is that it is totally out of and beyond their control.
If we want to understand this phenomenon we have to take a closer look at what has changed dramatically over the past 100 years and find some clue as to where this incredible force to move away from order is coming from.
First, there was the industrial revolution.
This was the first step that started a shift in the way humanity until that moment was accustomed to living.
Before this period of history, man mainly lived on land; farming and crafts were the norms. When you are a farmer you are intimately locked into nature and you must live in a close relationship with it in order to be successful at farming. If you do not take care of the animals or your crops you could be doomed. If you did not take note of the seasons of the year disaster was sure. If you did not save for hard times or times when you could not harvest starvation was assured. If you did not live in close relationships with your neighbors there would inevitably be materials that you lack that you would not be able to acquire and when you needed help you would not have anyone to assist you whatever the need may be.
The industrial revolution changed many things.
Man started the migration to crowded cities and left the land behind. Obviously, he also left behind his intimate relationship with nature and everything else that comes with that relationship. We must recognize that no matter how far away we move from nature, it will always be nature that will have to sustain us, We can transform many things but we cannot recreate them or fashion them to our own personal liking or suit our own desires without upsetting its natural course. Once the natural course of life has been upset, disorder sets in, greed becomes the norm, and apathy for our environment and fellow men follows.
The effect of living between concrete walls, traveling over concrete to work, and dealing with machines and mass production, robotics, numbers, and coding started to take its toll. In order for society to function it had become necessary to invent new norms and new systems to control man. Inherently the more you try to control a man the more he will rebel until at a certain point dissent and disorder will set in
The result of the disorder
We are just about now starting to see the full effect of all of the changes of the 20th century manifesting itself in our children, families, governments, society, and nature itself and I warn you that this is only the beginning. The further we move away from order the worst it is going to become.
Mind you that by order I do not mean control. Control is having things done by means of alternate sanctions if you do not comply. It is coupled with a type of forceful conduct. If you don't do this then that.... I mean that there is a right way and a wrong way to conduct ourselves in everything we do and we cannot compromise this "order" or we risk disorder and all of the resulting negative fallout.
Discipline
The other factor that plays a major role in your life is discipline. Without we will be decimated. We will quickly melt down into chaos.
Just imagine if tomorrow all of the users of traffic decided we are not going to follow any rules, no discipline at all what do you think would happen. Well by the end of the day, millions would be dead and the destruction to our physical infrastructure would be so severe it would take many years to repair. Discipline requires conscious effort where one assures that certain things are done in a certain way. Unlike order which has to do with what is right and what is wrong discipline is more about how we go about doing things. No one is born with it and it must be part of our education and training.
Once a person realizes its importance then they can propagate it and practice it until it becomes second nature. This is the reason why it is so important to discipline our children because as mentioned above no one is born with it. If a child is left up to itself it will indefinitely become rude and undisciplined and when it becomes a teenager and later an adult it will manifest all kinds of socially unacceptable behaviors. In order to live in an orderly society discipline is a must. No one needs any sort of discipline if they live on a deserted island by themselves and even so, if they are not disciplined at they will eventually succumb to nature and the dangers that lurk therein.
Service
Service is the last of the Corner Stone. Without service, man could not live as a collective body. It is one of the founding principles of all religions. Man was born to serve. To assist their community, their parents and children, and their spouses. Those who do nothing but take, take, take are parasites. They cannot sustain themselves in one place and are constantly on the move migrating from one failure to another. They are not loved by anyone and are despised by all. Eventually, they die alone.
Think of the great leaders; Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, and many others and mainly Jesus Christ what did all have in common: An insatiable desire to serve and sometimes under the most trying conditions enduring hardships and pain that no ordinary man has ever dreamed about bearing. Yet these people have brought about profound changes in their environment have helped millions and have a legacy that will exist until the time is no more.
Thank you for reading
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