Dreamscape Reflections, Systemic Injustice, and Mindful Decision Making

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NOTE: Today is October 19, 2025. This is a repost from my old blog, "Ang Blog ni McJeff," for archival purposes. I have retained the original date and timestamp.

I had a bad dream and it consisted of the usual themes: family members being irrational and loathsome, my pets either running away or being in danger, and me going back to school and not knowing what to do.

  1. family members being irrational and loathsome

    "Family" seems to represent the people that you are forced to live with. Now, obviously, no one in his right mind would want to share a home with irrational and loathsome people. When people are acting strangely, compulsively harming themselves or others, making unreasonable demands, or just being downright evil, all I want to do is to stay away from them. And that's what I usually do in my dream: I would run away. After all, why should I even bother arguing with irrational people? Why should I waste my time trying to fix them or fight them? They are hopeless and irreparably reprobate.

  2. pets running away or being in danger

    "Pets" are similar to "family" in the sense that you are also forced to live with them, but you have an irresistible urge to protect them no matter how hopelessly stupid and irrational they are. I suppose I don't mind them running away as long as they don't find themselves in dangerous situations. I don't want them being chased by a larger animal, or getting hit by a car, or ingesting something poisonous or inedible.

  3. going back to school and not knowing what to do

    I wonder: Do I actually have a subconscious desire to go back to school? Probably. Life was so simple back then, since I only had one main duty in life, which was to attend my classes. Now that I'm an adult, I have to take responsibility for almost everything that pertains to my survival and well-being. Not that it's a bad thing; I do, after all, love the autonomy of adulthood. I suppose it's actually that loss of autonomy that makes "going back to school" a bad dream for me. "Not knowing what to do," I think, is disturbing, not so much because I hate the feeling of being stupid, than because being clueless would put me within the power of those in the know. So yeah, I think it's really all about that fear of being stripped of my autonomy that makes this a bad dream for me.

 

 

Sometimes people don't work, not because they are lazy or incompetent, but because there's just no work available. And sometimes, the unavailability of jobs is due to a flawed or corrupt system, wherein there's actually no work scarcity, but only a few undeserved people are getting jobs, while those who are truly hard-working and competent are unjustly being deprived. This unfortunate state of affairs can be very confusing, and may lead the jobless to believe that they are intrinsically worthless to society. And if such is the case, if society doesn't see your value, if you can't find your rightful place in it, then you're left with three options: 1) rebellion, 2) indifference, or 3) self-contempt.

In situations like this, I can't help but contemplate on the benefits of communism and socialism, wherein ideally, there's equal distribution of society's resources. I say "ideally" because in reality, societies that have embraced these systems don't seem to be better off than the rest of the world. Far from being just, they actually granted even more power and resources to a select few.

 

 

We shouldn't waste our time fixing what isn't broken, nor improving what already is in an optimal state. More often than not, all that's needed to be done is maintenance rather than improvement, purification rather than transformation. Life is too short and unpredictable to be wasted on non-essential endeavors. The constant need to change things creates an illusion that you're accomplishing something, when in fact, you're just reinventing the wheel. Never allow yourself to get caught into this nonsense.

How then do we determine the proper course of action? The answer is obvious: We think. Whatever seemingly bright idea pops to mind, stop and think about it very carefully, not letting ourselves be driven by impulse but by reason. Of course, you shouldn't outright ignore your random ideas (since that's to deliberately stifle creativity), but neither should you put it into action right away. Only emergencies — that is, life-and-death situations — are exempt from this rule.

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