Navigate

Survival of the fittest. This used to mean the strongest fastest and more often than not smartest creature remained at the top of the food chain. Back in the day we had to scrap for every little ounce of food and water and make do with a couple of logs thrown together for a shelter. And most importantly we needed to know how to navigate. Those things determined our survival. Well in today’s society most of us are not concerned with surviving in the “old fashioned” sense. To survive in today’s world means to make it through another day at work, or to be able to sit through your niece’s piano recital without falling asleep. Oh we have it rough now don’t we? We have become so numb to the essentials in life we have forgotten the most important one. Navigation. How is navigation at the top of the list?

Well, food is food. We can find that just about anywhere and in most places ALL YOU CAN EAT food. Food, check. Water. We have come up with so many substitutes for water, that actual water hardly exists in most people’s consumption of liquids anyway. Water, check. Shelter. Well considering now, we all try and compete with each other seeing who’s house is best decorated, what the bedroom to bathroom ratio is, and whether or not you have an island in your kitchen, I think shelter is more of a show than a need these days. Shelter, check. So that leads us back to navigation. Well back in the day when people were lost in the mountains, the desert, the jungle, they had to know how to navigate to survive right? Right. Today people do not consider themselves lost but if we stopped and asked ourselves one simple question, how would we answer, “Are you navigating your own life right now?” You have to know where you came from, you have to know where you’re going, and it’s probably not a bad idea to pinpoint where you are right now. A lot of people cannot answer any of those three questions and this includes myself a lot of times. Where did I come from? Where am I going? Where am I now? This, my friends, is called being LOST. Just because we are not in the jungle or desert or mountains or out at sea does not mean we need to throw the compos away. It is essential. Now I for one can admit I have thrown my compos down and thought I could handle the world on my own, but I got lost at sea in a hurry. There I was just floating through life not even aware that my ship was going down in a hurry. I sunk my anchor but wondered why I wasn’t getting anywhere. You see, we get so comfortable in one little part of our world, we sink our anchors and then we get stuck. We need to be on a MISSION.

Going through life without knowing why we are taking each breath is a sad thing isn’t it? If you are going through life for the money, your anchor is sunk; you are stuck. If you are going through life for the pleasure, your anchor is sunk; you are stuck. If you are going through life to see how many friends you can make, your anchor is sunk; you are stuck. We get so caught up in the everyday hustle and bustle we think the GPS system has our back. Uh huh. Well I don’t know about you but it seems like technology has taken over everything these days. Is it taking over our reason for being? Or are we making our ‘beings’ be controlled by everything around us? Hmmm. Check. Check. Scientists are trying with all their might to invent smart and useful robots to join us in our day-to-day lives. Well, all I have to say about that is go walk down the street and you have a pretty good chance of running into one. We are living robotic lives. Everywhere you go, there are robots, just wandering. No compos, no motives, no idea why they are putting their left foot in front of their right, but they are. Robots CAN’T navigate. Snap out of it everybody. Strip off that robotic metal down to your flesh and live for real. Let us reel in our anchors in life and get on a mission. Where are we going? And most importantly why are we here?