Do you like telling your younger ones what to do and what not? How do you feel about it? Is it just a suggestion making or actually a bossing around?
Maybe you feel like you’re doing it as a well-wisher. Yes, that’s good, but does it annoy you when they don’t take the suggestion?
If yes, then think about it. Sometimes it becomes a habit to tell people what to do. And eventually turns into an addiction. Your mind sets itself on it. It’s not very surprising. Everytime someone makes such suggestions/orders, it gives him a feeling of having a power over the others. A times comes when he becomes addicted to having this feeling over and over again.
Now, as much as it is enjoyble for kost people, it’s not very easy to keep doing for real long. If you continuously boss around younger brother, definitely at some point, he will tell you to shut the hell up! And you will have to stop then, because nothing gives you an approval to do so!
But what if you would have something to hold your back?
A national authority, a religion, a particular culture- any of these is enough. If you are a part of politics and a local authority somehow, you already have the power to order people. Well, there are some bindings too, abusing the power is not easy all the time. But this picture has different look when the power is spiritual. Yes, I’m talking about religion.
Religion has class stratifications in itself. Priest and commoners, the prophet and his followers- think about it. You may now say that they never abuse the power and they have been well-wishers to humankind. Yes, maybe, but more or less they hold a power to move people and it is spiritually backboned.
Every particular culture has these stratifications too. If you look at the history of society, you’ll see how people are tend to establish authority/stratifications in order keep the circle going. But did you ever think how particular regulations went too far?
There are plenty of things that are prohibited by either cultural authorities, or religions, or whatever….. When people feel like the government is abusing its power, they can straight go protest, cultural norms change with demands of time too. But religion rules? A rule that has been made thousand years ago has to be maintained in this era. You can leave it but you can’t change people’s beliefs. You can go against the religion norms, but can’t stop what people think about. Just because they believe in God’s punishment, you have to do it too, right?
Last but not least, I’m intrigued by the fact that it’s easy to change someone’s thoughts on a particular authority, thoughts on something you can see. but when it comes to things we cannot see, it’s really damn hard.
Happy thinking!
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