Why You’re Not Better

The reason why you want to be better is exactly the reason why you aren’t. Because you want to be, permanently sets ‘better’ as separate from you and something to get.

Do-gooders are a form of troublemakers. On the basis of: Kindly let me help you or you will drown, said the monkey putting the fish safely up the tree.

Doing good, to others or oneself, can be amazingly destructive… Especially from a space of conceit. Just as a superhero necessitates a victim. Without someone to save, there is no super-heroism. How do you know what’s good for another? How do you know what’s good for you? If you want to improve, then you ought to know what’s good for you. But obviously you don’t. Because otherwise you’d already be improved.

Our attachment to knowing what’s best, usually contradicts what actually exists. If things were supposed to be a different way, they would be different. Is the grass really greener on the other side? Will we ever fall in love with what is? Or will we live out our existence trying to straighten every river and amend every thought?

We simply don’t yet know how to interfere with the world the way the world actually is… Instead we interfere with the world the way we think the world is, or how we think it ought to be. As a single aggregate of a vastly complex and dynamic organism, you cannot know every intricacy.