A recent podcast on Ned’s Radio Hour, had me full circle to what I have always questioned, conformity. In a world perceived with certainty I feel outcasted still questioning validity; to whomever said that the older we get the wiser we become, I would counter with the thought that a curious mind is the wisest for it is unrestrained to limitations given by man.
Our mind, is the potential safe haven for a world filled with expectations and like-minded people, not because we don’t know how to think for ourselves, but because society has made it easier to agree than to stand alone thereby only learning what is necessary to get the job done. The capabilities of man are not within other individuals, but the potential that lies within a creative mind that explores the depths of infinity.
Too many of us, myself included, fear failure. We want to not only do our job, but do it at its best capability. In doing so we expect ourselves to be flawless, but, how do we know we are doing it the best way if we limit it to what we have only done. We must flourish by taking the leaps and not fear failing; rather learn to embrace failure. Failure is proof that we are trying something new, that we are taking initiative and that we are worth our own investment.
Almost as worse as failure is the fear to be vulnerable. Society has conformed to the belief that if we are vulnerable we are weak. But, it is within the vulnerable that lies trust, and that takes more courage than all else. We need to put our walls down, we have become so infatuated with proving ourselves to one another that we have lost the common ground to what makes us human… we mess up, we have emotions and we are not perfect. In order to relate we must have common ground, and we touch and better build a trusting structure with the willingness to be “real” to understand ourselves and trust ourselves, that we are our own worst critic and for what it is we are lacking, there’s a world out there that too has flaws.
Inevitably we are creators of our own lives. As big, or as little, of an impact we want to make is determined by time we are willing to spend working on ourselves and learning one another. The world toward positive movement can not be tackled with the expectation that change happens over night, and that thoughts alone change outcomes, but that we are one… that no man is better than another, that materialistic possessions are not determinants of who we are as people, and that where we are going was prepaved by where we’ve come. We are given the choice to create something wonderful. We receive what it is we give, but shall never make decisions expecting the favor in short-term return but to be patient that the measurement of our return is how we are molded through our character.
