Is "giving" all we have?

So recently, my teacher showed me this video and asked me to write a blog about it. This is one of those "inspirational" and "philosophical" video about life so if this is not your thing then you can just skip this blog.

To be honest, this video confused the heck out of me. However, I'll try my best to interpret what this video is about and, hopefully, give you my opinions about the subject.

In the beginning, the video talks about how the world is "fragmented" and "full of distractions", that we're always so busy thinking about what we're going to do that we choose to ignored everything else. Then the author says that we are focusing too much on the external world and not the internal one. What does that mean? Is the author saying that all the stresses and distractions of our daily life are the things that prevent us from journey into the internal world? That would make sense since with all of the issues and distractions that we worry about everyday (issues such as work, school, social expectations,etc. and distractions such as the Internet, TV, games,etc.), we don't have time to discover who we are or socialize with anyone anymore.

Have you ever been in a situation where someone would ask you something about yourselves and your respond was "I don't know!" This kind of situation has becoming more and more frequent in teenagers, who spent most of their free time either on their phones or computers. The result is that many teens don't know what they want to become when they grow up, some aren't even sure what their hobbies and interests are (like yours truly). In the beginning of the year, seniors at my school were asked by the school counselor about what major they're going to choose for college, and about half of them didn't even decide yet. It seems that with all of the distractions and problems that are surrounding us, our life has become a repetitive cycle of working-frittering. If people aren't working, they're most likely to use their technologies. People just don't socialize like they used to anymore. Like the author said, "...we are alienating from each other..."

The second topic that the author discussed about is the fact that westerners value rational thinking more than meditative thinking. What that means is, westerners choose to believe logic and rational thoughts over guts and feelings. You might be asking "How is this a problem?" Well, like the author said, "language is incapable of  portraying reality." This means that mathematical equations, research documents, science experiments, etc., they are just "maps" showing us what reality looks like, they aren't reality itself.

This kind of thinking, however, is useless in carrying out practical affairs. But the author uses this way of thinking to show us that nature is a field with stuffs in it that influence each other. He believes that it doesn't know or doesn't care about what it made up of, how can it do what it does, why it do what it does, or anything relating to that subject, it just do what it normally do. This "attitude" of nature is something the author called a "flow of energy", an "...urge of nature wanting to be free." (This is some serious hippie stuffs right here, not that there's anything wrong with being a hippie.)

This "flow of energy", according to the author, should be allowed to flow freely and not stopped. The author believes that blockage of this "flow of energy" is the reason why we aren't happy, that if we "...undo ourselves from all physical, emotional, mental, spiritual blockages and social expectations to let room for this flow of energy to run through us...", our purpose in life will unfolds through what we give to the world.

This idea seems pretty good to me. However, there's something about his video that I don't agree on. It's the fact that he claims companies that protect their companies with copy rights are blocking nature's "flow of energy", that they're trying to fight nature!? The author praised the millions of people in the world who are giving out their knowledge, talents, love and compassion for free. But something like that can't be apply to companies because their goal is to make money. How can a company make money if they give out their products for free? Or let others steal their intellectual property? I know the author means well when he said we have to give things to the world to realize our purpose, but is it so wrong to protect your work? The title of this video might be "giving is all we have", but this makes me believe that it should be "we should give out things for free". Trust me, almost nothing in this world is "free".

Overall, this is a very interesting video with a lot of meaningful messages. This blog is just to show you how I feel about this video, so feel free to show me what you think about the video in the comments.