Utopias

       Utopias are counter intuitive.  They limit choice and agency and they are choosing the path of someones  future.  They are supposed to be paradise but, instead they are complete anarchy! They are going no where they will always stay the same; since there is no choice there is no progress, and without progress there is no paradise.  Of course they have predestination and  predestination is the reason why people rebelled; no one likes their future decided for them. Most people believe that they make their own destiny with the choices that they make. There hasn't been one utopia that has survived.  Each and everyone fails in some unique way.  Like the one I researched was Harmony, Pennsylvania. They had equal pay for everyone of the citizens; and the citizens rebelled as some wanted to be rich and above everyone else.  Some got sick with chicken pox and you can guess what happened; they burnt the place to the ground and the rest died from sickness.
          I like an imperfect world.  I never realized how lucky I am until I read "The Giver".  So there is sickness and death and sadness and loss but, I know what true happiness is and what good health feels like and I now whats it like to be alive. An imperfect world is an ideal living for most because most of us life is hard. I love this quote I heard" If life was easy, it wouldn't be hard." That goes without saying, we have to have imperfection to have perfection so when you remove the imperfection there is no perfection. No paradise. Nothing. I hope there is no more utopia attempts in my life or after my life. Because if life was easy it wouldn't be hard........