Everything is Available for Us

Many years before Christ – the age of the dinosaurs – people were hunters and gatherers. This today would be considered a dangerous and unpredictable way to live. The desire to have more stability and safety caused human beings to think of other ways of easing their pains and struggles, which led to the idea that goats could be kept at home, domesticated and fruits could be grown when the ground was tilled and the seeds planted and watered. Now, instead of chasing after the goat everyday across the grass plains, man brought the goats together in an enclosure and fed them the same grass from the plains. Even before this new idea, there was always an availability of grass, land and goats - but no one had thought of changing their arrangement, of domesticating the goats. A desire for a better life caused a thought that caused betterment in the standard of living, using the same material that was always there. Same with the seeds. Seeds had always germinated with good soil, rain and sunshine. Man just observed and acted accordingly.

Again, humans desired to reduce their hardships further by acquiring items they needed but did not have. They first did this by going to war with tribes that had these items. Then they desired a much safer way to acquire these items, which led to the idea that they could trade. This went along fine; the only problem being the long distances it took a person to carry a goat to exchange it with a bag of wheat in the next village. The desire to exchange faster and more efficiently led to the idea that instead of everyone walking all over the place, they can instead meet at one central spot and show all their goods and trade. A market was formed. Again, look at it closely. All the ingredients had always ever existed, but the idea that it could be done had not. A market did not drop from the heavens on this people. They simply changed their thought pattern and it was done.

The market did not solve all the problems because some other towns and cities far away were also in need of these goods – whether goats, cattle or grain – so horse drawn-carts were invented and put to use. Travelling long distances also put them in danger of being attacked by wild animals and armed bandits. The attempt to solve this issue brought about armed guards and safer means of transport. Speed of delivery also became another issue, so faster means of transport and communication were put into play to achieve this. Today the desire to trade even faster has caused us to have currency markets and stock exchanges. Imagine the time when a trader had to walk for half a day to the market, sell one cow, then walk back half a day home. Or use trucks to drive several herds of cattle or bags of grain to the market and be back home early enough to do another trip. Now we have futures and options exchanges, which enable people to buy and sell thousands of livestock futures and options in seconds without having to get up and travel long distances. Yet, nothing dropped from the heavens. It was all right here. People just desired different, and that desire took an infinite coordination of dozens of seemingly unrelated events to end up with a high-tech futures and options market and the zero need to move the cow at the time of trade.

We actually do not have an excuse today to better our lives because we have more available to us now than ever has been. We can do so much with a click of a mouse in the comfort of our homes. The only problem we may need to tackle would be making a choice of which path to take in our pursuits, which I believe has been solved through the surplus online education sites we have available to us today.

Changing the way you think opens your eyes to the different options available for you to tackle the everyday problems and challenges you face. First you may need to have faith in a divine power that can “open the windows of heaven…” so you can see He has made available to you.

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