Joshua Bell - Regina Spektor

The need to belong

The need to belong. This seems to be universal. A persons need to fit in somewhere. Youth will join gangs or find Jesus, God, Buddha, etc. Some will find work as their belonging, and some use their family. There is no end to the things we want to belong. Groups, clubs, political party, religion, schools, colleges, towns, city, states, country. Now we have a place to belong, we build up pride of these things, and will defend them as our self. We become the place we feel we belong. You read this and think this is true, but you don’t stop to think is it right to want to belong. You don’t see this as selfish. Why is this Selfish? I’ll tell you why.
Lets start with the guy that belongs to work. You may know him as a workaholic. He belongs to work, and gives everything to his work, and has little for anything else. Okay, but how does this apply to religion or families the strong building blocks of our country? When you belong to a religion you belong to that religion. How many different religions our there in this world? Lets just say there are many. You belong to your religion, and give everything to your religion, and have little for anything else. It’s a big world why would you want to limit your knowledge. I promise you God does not limit his. As soon as you belong to any religion you create pride. You can deny it all you want, it dose not make it true. There is no deity that ever belonged to a religion. Religious people lead in pride, and do so selfishly. Deny it all you want. You’re the one who has to face the truth in the end. Anyone who has really studied religion will know this is true.
You can be spiritual, and not belong to a religion. Okay, I know I will not change many minds about their religion, there is just way to much pride in them for me to be able to do that, so I will stop here. But what about the Family. Belonging to a family is great, how could it be selfish. Okay, first I must say family is great. Nothing is wrong with family. It’s what you consider as your family when the problems begin. It has all the problems of a workaholic or any religion. It is a knowledge stopper, and is very limited. It doesn’t take a village to raise a child, it takes the world. And again I will not change many minds. Pride man kinds mortal enemy. The limited thinking of Country, State, and mind will never let truth through. If it creates pride it is wrong. There is nothing to belong too, you are who you are. This has been taught to us for thousands of years, and here we are having not learned anything. It makes me sad. I know things will just keep going as they have for thousands of years. I belong to nothing, and I own nothing, and I am happy.

Regina Spektor @ In The Venue, SLC