In moments of self-reflection everything revolves around one question: Am I living my life right? In the past century several guru’s stood up and announced that they had the answer: No, you are not on the right track and I’m the chosen one who can teach you how to turn your life around and live well.
Let’s be clear from the start: right and wrong are human value judgements dictated by culture and society. In a primitive natural environment, as you would get if you could eliminate humans from evolution, then there would be no right or wrong. Animals do what they have to do in order to survive. Period. Add humans to the equation and suddenly the story changes. Early on in their evolution people have learned the value of cooperation. When you assign different tasks and jobs to different, well equipped fellow humans, then together you can master and overcome animals that are bigger, stronger and faster then you. That’s how social structures are formed, that’s how societies started. On different locations on earth different societies evolved with different jobs and functions and a different set of rules. These are the rules you need to commit to if you want to be part of that society. These are the rules that determine if you are right or wrong.
On top of that we have long since succeeded in building societies where individuals no longer need to concern themselves with the question if they will survive to live to the next day. Barring accidents you will survive today. Which as a consequence means that the things you are going to do today, do not necessarily have to contribute to your survival. You could even do things that are contra productive to your wellbeing and very likely still survive this day. And the next and the next. This is what makes people wonder if they are living their life right. Wonder if they are doing the right things. But, just like in a natural environment, this question has no real meaning. Knowing that your actions of today probably won’t have any lasting effect on your long term survival, no actual right or wrong can be labelled here.
So the only thing that really matters is: do you yourself view your actions as right or wrong? This depends on what you consider important in your life. And so we address the actual problem: we do not contemplate enough over what things we really value in our life. What do we really find important? The answer to that question differs for everyone and that is why there is no one solution that fits everybody’s needs.
Floanchoring urges you to, as often as possible, consider what you are doing and ask yourself: What do I really want from life? What do I value? The core of life itself is Change, so the answer to that question differs through time. It changes, evolves, its alive itself. So the question needs to be asked over and over again. And it’s really hard for anyone to come to an answer all by themselves. That’s where Floanchoring can help. Making the journey together with others, asking each other questions and putting the answers to the test. It’s a process that goes on as long as you live.
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