Why we are April Fools 365 days of the year? - Mindfulness wisdom
- Magical Mindful Living
- Apr 1
- 3 min read
Who are the April Fools?
Its April first yet again. I am not sure how many Aprils first's you have come across so far in your life. Maybe you were fooled last year by your friends. For me I wouldn't mind a prank. As introverted, I am any kind of interaction with so called "General population" would be a win for me. I might even deliberately let myself be the victim of a prank just to see some people smiling faces. Isn't it fun when everyone laugh? Of course, one day the ones who prank would play the fool if they are not aware about what is happening in life.
It is not only April first we let others to fool us. How about tomorrow April 2nd? You will wake up and listen to Fox news or CNN and let them fool us with fake news. Same story if you check two different channels at the same time side by side you will really be surprised what to believe. Truth is very rare phenomenon when consider news, just like little bit of water in UAE. It's hard to find and even oil is cheaper! So, if you may altogether quit news nothing would happen. And I would even not start on newspapers.
I am not saying they serve some purpose, maybe when it is a time of hurricane or a wildfire. Still fake is more than the truth.
April fools at work
How about at work? How about the future. We let ourselves get into a trap, which is called "Living a good life" and let ourselves be fooled by others. This time propaganda is bigger than we expect. As we all are part of a big game where we fool each other. And this happens at different levels. Imagine the co-operation you are working for. This co-operation makes some real money, capitalism at its best, and it keeps growing by using the hard work done by its workers, who are paid by their hours. Hours! that is the most insane scam of all time. It does mean, no space for individual creativity. No space for life. For what? To fill some family accounts with more zeros. Again, I am not saying the capitalism is bad. In fact, the opposite is truer. Capitalism is the best system so far, as it allows selfish greedy people to keep pushing others until they give out their last bit of consciousness. And things will push Forword more than in a communist society.
It is insane. Husbands make their wives fools, while children try to rob their elderly parents. Wealthy countries try to scam out the precious material, from mineral to brains, from poorer countries. Making any chance of recovery impossible. Politicians try to appear saints, while saints wear white cloths, to show that they are clean. What are you expecting? It makes me laugh of our foolishness. Everyone just plays their own role perfectly to fool the other. I can see this will not go anywhere nice. Even mindfulness has become a scam.
Mindfulness wisdom
Mindfulness is the tool of the wise men and women in the past, against the lies that prevails. The biggest liar of them all is our minds. All the foolishness of fooling others starts by fooling ourselves first. The inability to see the truth is in fact the greatest foolishness. With mindfulness we can question our so-called reality until we understand true nature of the world. But I have seen over the years mindfulness has become a scam. As everyone trying to fool others with a secret pathway to success, mindfulness has become another cheat code for way to success. But still there is hope. I see this as a good thing, as even fake news would create a spark in wise people to seek truth, eventually which they will find within themselves. With nothing but their own Mindfulness.
List of things we fool ourselves with.
Few years of life expectancy- due to advanced medicine
Global peace.
Patriotism - until we are hit by a covid
Tomorrow - thinking its predictable
Love - Ah.. the most abused word in the world
Heaven and hell
Ethics - we are just crows
This is just a start. you can add more. I can add more controversial things (like family) but let's, do that on another day.
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