It is something the way some people approach their belief system. Some people go to such extremes after changing, and nothing changes in their life. It does not seem to matter to them though. They think if they wait a little longer, they will be rewarded.
What I see they end up having is a blame system. They decide what their life should be like. They make an attempt at being the new them. When it does not work out they try it all over again. After a number of tries they start accusing, and blaming, because they are not rewarded as they feel they should be. It is a new version of the, “Emperor’s New Clothes”, only in this story the Emperor does not walk around naked. The Emperor in this version of the story had his clothes washed, and given back to him.
Unfortunately, the new laundry service that washed the Emperor’s clothes made a mistake, and the clothes no longer look to be the same clothes the Emperor sent off to be cleaned. The laundry used some new cleaning product, and a new sequence of cleaning the clothes. What happened is the clothes are not the same texture, and colors not what they were before they were washed.
The clothes feel different to the Emperor because they have new texture, and colors, so the Emperor assumes they are new clothes. What the Emperor misses in this thinking is about the clothes themselves. If they were indeed different clothes than the Emperor sent to the laundry, that would mean someone else received the Emperor’s clothes, and the Emperor received their clothes. Because the Emperor thinks these clothes are better than the old clothes, there is no need to change anything – as the laundry made the mistake. The mistake seems to be in the Emperor’s favor, so of course the Emperor is quiet about the switch.
The laundry does not have the dilemma they thought they would, because so far everyone thinks the clothes they wear now are better than the clothes they sent in for cleaning! So the laundry, other than have some anxiety over who may complain about their clothes, has no real problem at the moment.
Now the Emperor has been wearing his new clothes for a while. While the Emperor likes the new color and texture of the clothes, it seems something is not quite right with the clothes. The Emperor was sure that these new clothes were special, and as soon as they were put on, everything would start changing in the Emperor’s life.
Sadly, for the Emperor, there has been very little change except for the few days of vibrant enthusiasm of wearing new clothes and feeling pretty good about it. The Emperor notices little by little the major life change he is expecting is not happening! The Emperor can not understand what is wrong, and starts to get a little disgruntled.
The Emperor talks to some of his new friends who think they have also received the new clothes. They all seem happy, upbeat, and on a new path in life. Maybe their life has changed, and maybe it has not changed all they pretend it has, but it makes the Emperor angry thinking he is missing out.
There is no belief system I know of that is built around the idea of an all powerful being who waves a magic wand over new converts, and changes their world because they changed their clothes. If there were any instant payoff belief system, you can believe the whole world would be there already. But there is not one anywhere here…changing your clothes does not change your life.
If you wait for some all powerful being to come and make your life better, because you decided to think differently, I hope you have a comfortable spot to sit and wait, because it won’t be happening in this lifetime, in this reality. That is the stuff fairy tales are made of, and the best we can do is read about them.
I have learned in my life – if I want positive life changes: I have to be active in the process; today is a good day to start; blaming my belief system does not change anything.
