Article by Ilchi Lee writer of book “healing Society”.

Time is money is the motto on which everything runs. After all, there are always others who will be spending their time constructively while you are stuck in traffic. You will be falling behind. Somebody else will take over your job, your security, your family, your everything, and you will lose if you waste any more time in this damned traffic. You will lose the game.

From where does this anxiety come? Where else—our competitive social paradigm. We think that in order to survive, we have to be better than everyone else. Prof Ilchi says our fear of losing is what drives us. We have forgotten that we are all interconnected, not just with each other, but with the whole cosmos, and that what affects one part affects every other part. We have forgotten what our True Selves know.

In the midst of this almost instinctive anxiety, human beings are nevertheless looking to escape it. We somehow know that there is something better than all this constant instability. That’s why we try to explain away our anxiety with logic, conquer it with religion, legislate it with government, and soothe it away with therapy, only to fail.