When You Feel Life Is Not Worth Living, Why You Should Never Give Up In Life (By James Nussbaumer)

               

In previous articles I told about my story of being sentenced to 10 years in prison over a foolish securities violation. This occurred in my 25th year as a financial, a business I loathed and never truly wanting it as a career. Somehow I'd just got caught up in making it my livelihood.

The thought of never give up hope was hard to hang onto as I resided in the county jail for two months, due to my inability to find bail money.

All I could think about in my scarcity mindset, was life is not worth living.

The Course in Miracles states, "There are areas in your learning skills that are so impaired that you can progress only under constant, clear-cut direction, provided by a Teacher."

This is where I would remain until being bussed off to prison.

A prisoner is a prisoner, and believe me, it can make one feel like life is not worth living.

Nor would I have to live any longer with the person I 'd so desperately been trying to be for so many years.

"My career is finished, life is not worth living," I would repeatedly mumble to myself while chained to the inside of the van with others who seemed to never give up hope on the rides back and forth to the jail.

To the world I was just another convicted felon.

The Course in Miracles further teaches, "Do not attempt to teach yourself what you do not understand, and do not try to set up curriculum goals where yours have clearly failed."

On this day before Christmas Eve I had not yet been sentenced, but, taking my lawyer's advice to never give up hope, I pleaded guilty to charges of forgery and theft that would send me to prison.

I thought it was odd that there was no plea bargain.

My attorney insisted I trust him.

Once back at the jail, I noticed the young female deputy who unlocked the leg irons from my swollen ankles was about the same age as my twenty-one-year-old daughter Megan.

While the young deputy escorted me down a long corridor leading to my cell, I briefly recalled my own headstrong twenties, a period where I 'd never give up hope.

I 'd never gotten into the kind of trouble I was in now while trying to convince myself to never give up in life.

The deputy apologized and was pleasant as she smiled with a gesture like saying, never give up hope, and pointed for me to enter the tiny cell where I would remain for at least another thirty days.

I still was to be sentenced, which would mean one more round trip to the courthouse and back, and I was told that due to prison overcrowding I would have to wait for a prison bed.

In my case I was broke, so how could I possibly have the attitude of never give up hope.

To making your life worth living!

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Message From the Universe: A Life Worth Living

"If it wasn't for needing you there so much, I'd need you here.

"Thanks," on behalf of all those in your life right now who are just too busy, or stressed, or sad, to see how much you add to theirs. (You know who I mean.)

Hope you had a fabulous weekend, 

The Universe"

We all have a role in this planet, and this great power given to us from above, comes great responsibilities. Never undermine your presence on this planet. It is not about your size, or your wealth, or your statute that correspond to the amount of impact you can have in people's lives. The little things you do can make a huge impact but you need to start somewhere. When you see someone in need, lay a hand, help out, see how you can make their lives a bit easier. Never hesitate. Always take initiative and be the first one to reach out when your inner voice suggest it. I know we all have our crap to deal with, it's a given, but I am sure that many are in worst crap than you are, so it's always good to help, either way.

You have a mission on planet Earth, but the problem is that we do not have a clue what it is. Some people never accomplish their mission, live their lives, go meet the angels and come back down to try again to accomplish that mission. As many researchers were able to prove that consciousness remains even after physical body dies, we can say that there is an infinite possibility that the reincarnated soul may have recollection of their previous life and remember events that actually NEVER happened in their actual life. Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, have experienced life after death and have seen the process of a mild reincarnation after being in a coma for 7 days. He wrote the book Proof of heaven to describe his experience with the general public. He tried to understand how all that could have happened, especially when his neuro-cortex showed no sign of activity, which for many medical expert, could have diagnosed it as illusions if proven otherwise. Nevertheless, NDE happens and occurs in many cases around the world. Can we say that in the case of Dr Alexander, the angels sent him back down saying that it wasn't his time and his mission wasn't yet accomplished? Did a power from above intervene in his well being to kick him back to life after his severe bacterial meningitis infection and come out alive and healthy? It is hard to explain why certain people will succumb to the illness and others won't. Despite these many questions, we should all be fortunate enough to live a healthy life and allow ourselves to be given an opportunity to make a change and be better people. This is what life is worth living for.

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The Purpose Of Human Life, Even For Perceived Failures

I think this world may be something like a maze and we are the rats in the maze. What we need to do is find our way out of the maze and sometimes we get a little tired of hitting dead ends and that's what puts us in a state of depression or frustration or simply not wanting to live.

The concept I have for the purpose of life is that we have to find a way out of the maze and that maze is of course the thoughts and emotions we feel based on all the wrong turns that we made in the maze during our life.

If we can actually find a way out of the maze, that will change everything, and that to me is the whole purpose of our existence. To find our way out of this maze is not just for our own sake, but the sake of all the other rats in the maze called humans.

I think that depression is when we see life as all about 'me' but when I remove myself from the story, and if I become irrelevant, and my life is just to get out of the maze for the sake of every rat on the planet so we can all find our way out, then it makes life worth living.

Maybe it is like the 100th monkey effect. When enough monkeys solve a puzzle, all of a sudden all the other monkeys can do it also.

Now the question is, what happens when all the rats get out of the maze, or even if only a few get out. Will that mean the experiment is over? Then what happens?

There are many ancient sayings; 'As above, so below." or 'The microcosm in the macrocosm'. 'The child will emulate the parent.' The Sufi say; 'He who knows himself knows God.' There are many such sayings all telling us that basically, to know our creator, whatever you perceive that to be, we only need to deeply understand ourself. And we do run rats through mazes to learn many scientific discoveries, so why wouldn't our creator be doing that as well?

If this is true, we are presented with a very complex next question which is, each person is so different from Hitler to Gandhi, so how could I know God by knowing me? I as an individual am so limited and God must be unlimited.

A possible answer to this is that each individual is far more complex than the limitations of the ego personality that we currently live. That is to say, you may be evil but you have good in you, and likewise, no matter how good you are, you have evil potential in you as well.

Thus we can conclude that if enough humans or rats can solve the maze by accepting whatever they are as the individual and devoting their life to change, hopefully we will just work on change for the better and not become criminals, but for the bad to become more good, and in that conversion we actually progress through the maze, and finding our way out, can lead others through. Then when enough of us little rats make it through, the experiment ends.

If this is what our life on this rock floating in space is all about, then no matter how bad a person is, they play a vital part in the liberation of all humanity. In fact, the ones who have been so called bad may play a greater part of more value in their reformation as they will have a wider and more varied amount of experience to help overcome the pitfalls and traps of the maze, helping others to avoid the quicksand and open manholes.

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