It gets easier to be honest with ourselves along this journey of life. When we allow some integral dots to connect, storylines can at once coalesce and align. Instantly, we have at our fingertips a depth into our struggles and perceptions — and perhaps renewed clarity.
It’s interesting that we had these things as children. We could feel the excitement of something and simply go for it. We wouldn’t think about the schedule, the validity, or whether it would make us a living. Curiosity, openness, adventure, and a willingness to fail were all present in the moment, and if left to our own devices, we would dare greatly time and again.
Sadly, our parents, guardians, and institutions — struggling for validation and substance in their own right — begrudged us our independence and, through example and influence, eroded and suppressed our innocence, intrigue, passion, and play. The trust in our internal compasses waned, and exploration got segmented and sequestered, decided evermore by alarms and buzzers.
It is our innate desire to serve and please those we care about and respect, but we mistakenly established allegiances where they were only required by those who themselves had decided to give up on the immensity of a life well lived. Form, function, logic, and emotional dysfunction became the norm at some point, and we still tend to accept it.
However, the tide of rebalancing and resonance with our truth and higher ideals will not accept it any longer. We are living on the live wire of an elevated existence, which is shaking our foundations to their core. All of our existing systems need to evolve or be completely replaced. All of them. This unnerves the parasitic unconscious and the power-hungry, i.e., the manipulators. As a species, we are physically averse and unable to function as we once did without significant energetic consequences, both internal and external.
We owe it to ourselves to take pause and re-establish connections to our essential selves — no makeup, clothes, titles, or labels; no expectations, assumptions, presumptions, hardened concepts, or time constraints. Just the simple, naked, now.
If we can allow ourselves to be so bold, we may be able to reboot stagnant or break apart calcified processes within us; regaining the presence and persistence to overcome layers of imposed influence is today’s struggle. However, even dominoes can fall uphill, and when they do, observe the underlying patterns.
There, again, will be the excitement, curiosity, openness, and adventure. There, again, we will see the willingness to reveal, sail, and soar free of the unruly heaviness.
It never went away. Such is the nature of love.
Solvitur ambulando