The Daily Question is an almost daily quick question to keep in mind and consider during the day. When you are presented a question of deep importance, you use your brain in a different way, a more critical way. When we develop critical thinking we become a more independent, knowledgeable, and diverse person. To start to develop some of these skills, read the Daily Question and keep them in mind.

Today’s daily question is on: What should be free? When I ask this I am thinking in the context of amenities and commodities. In some cultures certain amenities are in fact free to the eye. You do end up usually paying somewhere down the line, but in this case we will call these things free. In other words, I am asking what is a man entitled to for being a citizen. In some places education, health care, and other necessities are free. But beyond that, what else should be free, food, internet, housing, travel? There are many things required to function in the world today, of those what should be covered in taxes or other in direct forms of payment. Adding on to this, maybe you should be able to choose what your benefits are to be. Like some health care plans, you choose your coverage. Maybe you want internet to be included in taxes, or maybe you want health care, or maybe you want to bare minimum in both payment and benefits. What ever way it is, it is still a question that is easily ponderable and debatable.

So that is today’s daily question: What should be considered free and granted to you.

The Daily Question is an almost daily quick question to keep in mind and consider during the day. When you are presented a question of deep importance, you use your brain in a different way, a more critical way. When we develop critical thinking we become a more independent, knowledgeable, and diverse person. To start to develop some of these skills, read the Daily Question and keep them in mind.

Last night I went out and saw the movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Yes, I know it was a disappointment, but that is not what I am talking about. Unlike some movies in a similar genre, this movie did not pose many questions to consider later. That, and never really explain anything, there was not much to take out of the theater. However, the one question that was brought up was: Can the human race change and evolve in time to save earth? Interesting, of course the movie answered this question as yes. Whether this be right or wrong, I cannot say, but I think the question goes to a much deeper level in how the human species functions. if we are to save both our race and the earth then we must change. We do not know how long we have, it may be a few years, a few generations, or hundreds, thousands of years. In the end, we must change. This is something that must be embraced, can we change, when will we need to change, how drastically will we have to change, and do we have time to change. These questions and more are all imminent to the further evolution of the human race, for I fear without a drastic change we will lose much of what we know to love.

So that is the question of the day. Is it capable for humans to change and evolve in time to save the species?

“Whereas the average individuals “often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are,” self-actualizing individuals have “superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general.”~ Abraham Maslow

Imagine a life like this: You have complete control over your thoughts, your emotions, and have total self awareness. I like to call this a “powerful state of mind”. I think you could agree. Within yourself you are as powerful as can be. Your can step away and notice all of your actions. When in difficult situations you have the ability to determine your options and decide for yourself what is the logical explanation. You have confidence from knowing yourself, knowing how you react, understanding how you think, and knowing what makes you happy. These are some of the many aspects of self awareness that is key to a “powerful state of mind”.

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