Personal Credo - Nelson

Nelson believes that what is important to us changes at different phases of our life

Transcript

Let me go back a little further: To understand this world that we live in, in this vast Universe, even the wisest people see only 1% of what's going on. Insects and animals have better eyesight than us, dogs have a better smell. We only use 10% of our brain to perceive and imagine. With these limited skills and knowledge, how can we possibly understand what's going on in this vast Universe?

I've evolved over the years. When I was younger it was all about me. I became a Man and a bit wiser through failings. That's how you learn - through mistakes. I realised that in life you have got to give it meaning. You've been blessed with this life. It’s up to every one of us to give it that meaning. It's different for each of us. My path in life is connections. I used to think it was all about money. That's why I became a plumber; I'm also a kindergarten teacher and I love that. But it's not about money any more. When you die, you can't take any material things with you so it's about what you leave behind and all your loved ones. That's the meaning of my life - my family and (names given) my friends who I really respect. That for me is like past lives. What I'm saying is that energy will get recycled one way or another. You may come back as another human being, you might come back as a bird, but my knowledge of that is limited. All I know for sure is that in this life since the Industrial Revolution we've been socially conditioned by government, by education, by religion to be part of a cog in a functioning Society. Many people think that that's your purpose in life, like, a house price which should be affordable. We are not talking about what is universal, about what we are absolutely. We've been conditioned to say ‘So you've got our lives at the moment because of this, or because of capitalism from the Industrial Revolution, as well as to pay off our house. The main thing isn't that it will take you all your life to pay it off. We wake up unnaturally at silly hours in the morning and are part of this Cog, as I call it, for the economy and it is false. The economy was set up by man and everything that we're living is very, very unnatural. It's not to our Rhythm. That's why there's a lot of mental health issues at the moment; it's because we're slowly coming away from our natural lives.