What is content without knowing longing? What is satisfaction without knowing discomfort? What is happiness without knowing pain? I would love to write a post about a land where children can eat cupcakes for breakfast and everyone marries their soul mate on their first try and where death wasn't looked at as sad, because we knew we'd all get there eventually. But I don't call that happiness, I call that ignorance. If people never knew what feeling hurt was, how would they ever know how much better it feels when that stabbing pain finally removes itself? You see, I don't think my Utopia would be that different from the world that we live in today. There are definitely a few things that I would change, but all of the bad things that seem to find their way into my life wouldn't be annihilated.
The things that I would get rid of? Well, that's pretty easy. I would get rid of the people who look at themselves as better than others; in my Utopia we don't have room for arrogant jerks. I would get rid of cruelty- cruelty to humans and nature and animals. Nobody would be enslaved or live in bondage.
I remember when I went to Younglife camp one year, and they showed us a music video that portrayed all of the horrible things that happened in the world, and told us that we needed to be the ones to try to change that if we wanted it gone, except how would we know that those things were wrong if they never happened? To me it seems like not knowing what evil looks like would only create breeding grounds for people to become unaware of its underlying existence.
When it comes down to it, in my Utopia I would have it so people have more courage, more hope, more strength, more intuition, and more love for themselves and for others.
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