While there are myriad theories of the cause of humankind’s misery, which happens far too often to far too many people, it has to be said that the basic cause of that misery is humankind’s inability to do what they ought to do, and replacing such by doing that which is in disharmony to Nature’s God, and thereby suffering in one way or another, the penalty for that disobedience. In other words, anytime that we do something morally wrong through the exercise of our free will, we have quite obviously weakened our ties to God, by our own volition, and in order then to strengthen back those ties, we are going to have to work very hard to make sure to do the right thing, instead.
The misery that we suffer from is often not from our misunderstanding of what is right and that which is wrong, but rather it is our stubbornness to insist that our way is the right way, even though intuitively we know that this isn’t right. In life, there are going to be presented to us, time and time again, decisions that will necessitate us sacrificing something of our ego or of our desires, in order to do the right thing for those that we congregate with, and in many a case, when we fail to do the right thing, it is not because we aren’t capable of doing so, but because we willed to not do so, for whatever dubious reason.
It has to be said, that every step upon the wrong path, must be made up by a step upon the correct path, and the sooner that we recognize that we are continuing to walk down the wrong path, and thereby make then the determination that we will not continue down that path, the sooner that we will begin to mark our return to the right path, by taking action to do that very thing, as opposed to just thinking that we should do so, but never seeming to get around to actually accomplishing such.
To somehow believe that the decisions and actions that we make that are wrong, will somehow be okay in the end, is foolishness and is not borne out by the results that we will see in this life or the life beyond. To be gifted with free choice is to be gifted with the opportunity to make good on such, or to fail to do so. Those who make poor choices will experience some degree of misery, for they have not done what was meant to be done right, and having failed in that task, will duly have to pay the price for that disobedience.
For all those that expect their judgment to be an easy day, it is almost certain for them, that it will not be, because they are apparently not even cognizant of the mistakes that they have made. In this world, we will be tested, and those who have the courage to do what needs to be done to pass their tests, are those who will rise above misery into enlightenment; whereas those who have not, will rue their stubbornness and stupidity, for in having been provided with free choice, they have sowed poorly, and will thereby reap the whirlwind.