# A Frustrating Path By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2024-07-26 If the creator(s) of the world and all things exist and if they gave humanity free will, I suspect they are extremely frustrated. In all likelihood, one would never see if they met the creator(s) as it hardly seems like a thing we would imagine from them. Perhaps the creators have it all figured out and are not frustrated, but why create something one knows would go off the rails? Either such creators are sadistic, profoundly beyond our comprehension, or overtly optimistic about what might be. In the end, I suspect it could all turn around, but watching the process unfold has to invoke frustration, even if this was the plan of the clockmaker(s) all along. Looking around, one can see the tools, ideas, and systems to make things better. Yet, many walk right past them, and others intentionally block them from others due to fear and misaligned incentives. Maintaining calm and dealing with these problems under such distress is a skill identified in nearly every surviving religion and way of being. This commonality provides evidence that the nature of humanity's relationship with the world is in some part universal. It is arrived at by different people over the course of history many times over. One could view it as a message of solidarity passed down through the ages. Likeminded people have encountered this time after time and codified their response. Perhaps this gives the creator(s) hope within the sea of frustration. It could give one hope as well. #### Related Items [[Frustration]] [[Progress]] [[The Human Condition]] [[Religion]] [[Free Will]] [[Hope]] [[Skills]]