When You Suspect, the World is Not Good for You

This is the most important question anyone can ask "Is the world good for me?'

Little jellyfish do not ask themselves this - but little animals with a brain sure do. Because their life depends on it.

Humans ask this all the time - because they have to know how to behave.

They were not born knowing this - human babies only know how to drink and defecate. But they learn quickly. And one of the first things they learn is, how to get along in their world. And what place their world has for them.

This is not some place prepared for them, before their arrival. But someplace that has to be built, by them - and everything else. And everything else may not be eager to help them along.

When we judge other people (something we have to do) we can only observe their behavior right now. The many influences on their behavior, many of the going back to their early childhood, are not visible to us - even though they are present, in the present.

They have asked themselves "Is this world good for me?" And all too frequently, they have to answer "Probably not!"