Despite all the different theories of the purpose for this world and its order, mankind still suffers, and still doesn't understand why nature acts up on us this way. Aren't we the very reason for nature's cruelty to the living world?
When will we finally wake up and realize that we are all part of a whole, and everything we do causes a reaction and affects everything else, including our own emotions, causing us to make bad choices and experience cruel consequences.
Take the nature of hate and aggression for instance. When its not biological its an emotional state by choice. We sometimes chose to feel angry and destructive in this sort of cancer cell mentality, and this occurs from our psychological and emotional problems through dealing with life's stressful nature and the sociological problems we face. Common sense says we should strive to make life the least bit stressful for ourselves while learning about our own social behavior in order that we understand and control our emotions from getting the best of us.
Therefore I believe the fundamental and perpetual happiness of man ought to arise from value to himself and his own conduct. Feeling that his witness is high, he ought to be satisfied with the approval of his own conscience and not rise and fall in soul, like an applause meter, with the favors and frowns of his fellow peers.
When we do things to please others, that is when we seem to make our lives complicated and overly stressful. What society paints as a picture of normal life is not necessarily the right way for most people to live their lives.
Sometimes we are subjected to useless pain and agony over the inability to see what's best over what is placed upon us. We often forget that our neighbors are valuable to us and that we benefit from their works, explicitly that we should appreciate them.
However, never should we make our lives more stressful and labored over trying to impress them or in seeking their approval or validation in order to feel self-worth. That kind of thinking is where a person’s ego leads them into the wrong path or into a much too complicated a life especially, when they are doing it to maintain the wrong kind of friends.
In fact ego itself is a major cause of bad things occurring in our life. It is a big measuring stick for how much one suffers. The more ego the more suffering and the more they rid this ego, the less they suffer unto themselves. A fully developed person must have a natural instinct against the nature of egoism, while the opposite is true for someone who has not grown psychologically and spiritually.
Look at the egos of the great evil dictators, who plaster their face and their name all over the place. Look at what great harm ego does to the pride of a national leader, who will try and save face for his own needs rather than his people, like in wars. Ego can keep people from admitting faults, make them displace blame, cause them to disregard truth and what is right, just out of pride.
Ego makes discerning right from wrong, good from bad, light from darkness, very difficult for some people because they will always seek excuses rather then solutions.