That's word we pray

Yookoso!

Praying is not my 'cup of tea', hell, I do not drink tea, -and I am not a believer. But sometimes I wonder why do we pray ? Because we lack the courage to better our life ? Because we hate pain ? Because we want favours from god ? Because we can blame somebody else for the lack of things, or excess of disgraces ? Or is it because we do not want to CHANGE ? Hallelujah!
Religious believe is with us since ancient times. Our ancestors decisively linked disgrace to lack of pray for the gods favours, and openly hunt those 'infidels'. Religious leaders were favoured ones, they seemed to have the answer to everybody's disgraces, sorrow, or sexual anxiety. But too many of those religious leaders, humans like the rest of us, prey on other's fear to the unknown. So we learn to pray.

Often we feel pain or sorrow because we loose something or somebody, or because we do not get something or somebody we think we deserve. So we pray. But I think the gods, or other external forces, will not listen to our prays. We must DO something to better ourselves, we must move, we must act positive. Life questions are difficult to answer, but we have to get the answers ourselves: if your 'mojo' is too small, do not pray, buy and enlargement treatment right away.
We have been cheated long enough. It's disappointing, but the truth is that prays accomplish nothing if they are not complemented by action, by movement, by audacity. Does it matter if god's intentions are good, if his actions make us suffer ?
Think about it, the BELIEVE that pray will help is WHAT helps. The pray itself accomplishes nothing. What in the world will be the different if we pray ? There is no prove that things will be worse is we don't. And I think god hardly ever prays for help.

I think we pray to replace the feelings of misfortune with positive feelings, we elude the responsibility to do things ourselves and passed that responsibility to a superior being so we can feel blameless. We pray trying to feel ourselves better, to attract attention, to gain respect. Sometimes the need for change is evident, but most of us do not want to put the effort to make those changes. We feel comfortable with the status of things.

So when everything goes wrong, when you feel lonely, when you are desperado, or when in need; a good start maybe pray, but for your own sake do something about it. Move your lazy bottom, work things out; do not tell yourself that everything is going to be fine, because it will only if you make it be fine. Have no doubts about it.
I remember my sacred mother saying: “you should pray...” then chastise me with “...that I don't catch you because when I do...”

Changes are always difficult, and when changes occur nobody has a guaranteed outcome. Changes require effort, dedication, commitment, testosterone, and loads of viagra. But while we may not get what we want, we surely always get what we need. And that is good, very good.

Let's do things differently: change the city, change the clothes, read a book you don't like, learn to dance, get a new car, listen to a different radio, change hair style, participate in a movement for environment protection, or against that, accept you singularity, accept your craziness, meet new people, accept new ideas, eat different things.
And do not forget that when Muhammed asked Alá:
“Lord, are we ever going to be happy?”
Alá conclusively answered:
“Indubitable, my son, but not on my life time.”