Spiritual Reckoning Your reflection—“we cannot take our wealth when we die, only what is within our soul”—echoes ancient wisdom. Life’s shortness may be designed to focus us not on accumulation, but on transformation. To ask not how long we lived, but how deeply.
What is everybody looking for? Survival, PEACE!
Survival: The First Urge Survival is primal. It’s the instinct to protect, to endure, to provide. In the 21st century, survival means more than food and shelter—it means navigating systems, securing dignity, and resisting erasure. For many, survival is still a daily negotiation with inequality, exclusion, and precarity.
Peace: The Deeper Need Peace is what we seek once survival is secured. It’s not just the absence of conflict—it’s the presence of coherence. A life that makes sense. A soul that feels whole. Peace is found in relationships that honour us, in work that doesn’t betray us, and in silence that doesn’t accuse us.
The Paper Chase as Witness Your archive doesn’t just critique education—it reveals how systems often fracture both survival and peace. When merit becomes currency, when recognition is rationed, when learning is sorted by rank, we lose the very things we came seeking. We need to reflect, sit back in the country or garden, somewhere and literally 'smell the roses', see the sunrise and sunset, the waves crashing on the rocks
