Everything Done Under the Sun

I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea of putting your life on a billboard—just living, like everything is public, or that everything you do under the sun is heard, seen, and essentially public information. With this in mind, how would you live your life?

Everything Done in the Dark Will Come to the Light

With this in mind, maybe it’s most wise to assume that everything done in the dark will come to the light eventually. Nothing that’s done in secret, whether good or bad, will be left unseen. Even if you don’t believe in God, what if you just made this assumption?

I think that living under this assumption really does set things into perspective, in a way that makes you more aware of your inner voice or your conscience.

Listen to Your Inner Voice

And so, with this assumption—that everything you do is 100% transparent, public, and recorded for all of eternity—I think the wisest thing to do is to listen to your inner voice. When you obey and listen to your conscience, everything just seems to work out effortlessly. The more that you obey that voice that tells you what’s right or wrong, whether to turn left or right, the more things just seem to work out exactly how they should.

My theory is, that little voice is God. Or—have you ever seen those pictures or videos or like those little cartoon clips where there’s a God or a devil on the shoulder? Let’s assume that you have God on one side, and the devil on the other. One voice is telling you to do what is right and just, and the other voice is telling you to do what gives immediate pleasure but perhaps at the destruction of yourself or others.

If you simply follow your whims for pleasure, or even succumb to emotional weakness—such as anger—and lash out, physically or emotionally abuse and hurt somebody, it’s kind of like the devil has a hold on you, and you’re just a slave to him. But what if you were a slave to God, and simply obeyed what is right and just, under the assumption that everything that you do under the sun actually means something.