[goldcigarettes]

i don't know about you all but i always had a problem with the word "service". it just seems weird to me.

do i want to be a good person and try to bring joy and happiness to the people around me? definitely

do i serve other people? i am not so sure about that. serve just seems so close to the word slave, to me, for some reason. do i control people? no. do i serve people? ummmm.... i don't know.

but as i was walking down the street the other day this word popped into my head... empower

for me it makes more sense to say are you one who empowers those around you or are you one who tries to knock others down in order to be at the top. this makes perfect sense to me.

and we see this everywhere. the capitalist way seems to be to try to psyche the other guy out and make him/her feel so small that they can not compete. or a company that tries to make its product as addictive as possible to keep the people coming back even though it is detrimental to the health of its customers.

the catholic church seems to have been very careful not to empower the people too much because they would rather them to stay dependent on the church for the answers. they don't want the people to be able to think for themselves and feel like the god the people are searching for is actually right inside of us. then the catholic church would no longer be needed and their money would be gone. this is an example of an organization that does not want to empower the people. hence an sts organization.

that versus the company that tries to make its product as healthy, vibrant and delicious as possible to help people feel good and live long lives.

is your first thought to sabotage another person's work in order to make them look bad and make yourself look better or help another person to do a better job regardless of whether or not they begin to do a better job than yourself?

do you empower the people around you or do you try to suck the life out of them to sustain your self?

i am not sure if i serve people but i know for sure that i always try to empower others. this helped me so i thought i would share.

love to all,
foo :d