The post, “Do it right!!!” ended with, “The point is that Happy, Healthy, Wise, Wealthy can be arranged on a scale of 1. Wonderful, 2. Good, 3. Okay, 4. Difficult, 5. Catastrophic and then they can be compared and improved.”
The day after posting that and rereading it I was a little surprised at how obvious the path to a better, or worse, life is and how easily those paths can be described. The next step up the ladder, or down it, is within easy reach from the step presently being inhabited. Most people, by my intentionally defining it there, are living in the Okay situation. When living there it is easy to imagine falling one step into a Difficult situation, and not too difficult to imagine moving up one step to a Good situation. Furthermore, the actions of living those other steps, only one level away, are easily imagined, and occasionally experienced by those at the Okay level. Thus, there is a guide to be found in a person’s experience to identify behaviors to be sought and those to be avoided.
The heaven to be experienced by people living the Wonderful life is probably too many steps removed from a person living a Catastrophic life to be understood and sought by them. For example, the relief from pain found in pain-suppressing drugs only gets them into more trouble because it leads them away from the behaviors found in a Wonderful way of living.
“Go the right way!” is easy to say, but it may be impossible to do for people looking the other way.
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