Wish #3

Wish #3

Wish #1 was “Get rid of all the

jerks.” That failed. Wish #2 was

“Make me world dictator.” That

failed, too. You still have Wish #3

- what are you going to wish for

now?

We’ll tell you what we would wish

for. But first, we’ll need to look at

something invisible.

The problem with the world

wasn’t with the people themselves,

and it wasn’t with the culture or

social systems. So what does that

leave? Nothing? Or maybe an

invisible something...

Why Do We Have to Work?

What’s wrong with the world? It’s

something so subtle, something

we take so much for granted, that

it has become invisible to us. To

see this invisible thing, we’ll need

to open our minds and question

some very basic assumptions we’ve

been making our entire lives. Let’s

pick one and start there. Take a

deep breath; here we go.

People generally work 30-50

hours a week. Why?

Most people hate their jobs.

Even if they claim to like their

job, they’d still prefer to work

less and spend more time with

their families or with some other

activity they enjoy. But we “have” to work, so we force ourselves into

job-boxes that don’t fit our souls,

with our every move watched,

our freedoms revoked, and our

personalities masked - and we

muffle any internal voices that

question whether this is the way it

has to be.

Is this the way it has to be?

Well, we need money, right? We

need money to buy food and

shelter and other necessities, and

money doesn’t grow on trees.

But wait a second. Food does grow

on trees. And trees are shelter.

Why do we have to work so hard

to buy things that grow freely out

of the ground?

Imagine a world where food and

shelter are freely available from

the Earth, and work is an optional

activity to earn money for luxuries.

That would certainly cut down on

rent and grocery bills, wouldn’t it?

Even if this life isn’t the life you

would choose, why don’t we even

see it as an option?