What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a fairly common phrase in Western culture, aimed primarily at children, particularly in public education settings. I believe this notion is a disease of our time, a psychological sliver that distracts the mind and makes a slave of the spirit.
Tag: vulnerability
You can’t have it both ways. The mind will do its thing, and the heart will wait. They’re two distinct languages and are often at odds with each other.
There is constant distraction, busyness, and the superficial or fickle pursuit of passion, but there is little substance or ethereal glue, and we let the game define the rules. We need to return to the present moment. We need to recapture the fragments.
How can you know who you are or what you truly want out of life if you never push your limits, hone and adapt your skills, or discover new interests and abilities?
If we give in to the suffering, the energy will sweep us, as it always does, into the spiral, down and out of our presence, out of our now, out into the sea.