Help Me Understand – Part 1
Hello reader. It’s been a moment since I last blogged. This is odd considering the number of dense and worthwhile thoughts which have coursed through my mind. I feel as though my tendency to internalize my thoughts has gotten to the point where my internalizations suffocate my ability to express myself. I feel inert very often, and the end result is that I leave no mark.
But reader, I want to pose questions to you. I also seek your counsel. Help me to understand the world I live in, and explain to me, if you can, why we exist in this particular way.
What do you believe to be important in life? What, above all else, do you seek to do in your lifetime? What is your passion?
Please answer these questions. You may reply with the answers or you may answer them to yourself, but pay mind to them, if you have read them.
What do you believe to be important in life?
I believe that expression is important, primarily creative expression and loving expression. You can’t go wrong with expressing yourself, and unleashing that captive artist within. You certainly cannot go wrong with expressing love. This does not have to be to a spouse. It should extend beyond family, as well. It is important to re-acquaint ourselves with our loving nature. Do you remember the last time someone truly complimented you? Or held you in a warm embrace? Hairs stand on end when we are paid this loving attention – proof in itself that we are all starved of love.
When in doubt, love. Even (well, especially) if it means taking the strenuous path. Work hard, sweat harder, and love without inhibition. When I am feeling down I need only to ask myself if I am being withheld the basic elements of livelihood: Do I love? Am I loved? Do I work hard? These tenets can be dissected further, but this is all we need.
What, above all else, do you seek to do in your lifetime?
You may not list acquisition of material things. Now, are you scratching your head? I hope you are not, but if you are, you need only to return to the child you once were to realize that life is not always about the end results we so frenetically pursue.
I seek to live. I do not have expectations for my lifetime. I seek to grasp every thread of this existence, and feel of its numerous textures. I want to be cognizant of my every breath, and I want to be left to observe beauty in silence. I will labor to avoid mindless labor, and achievements associated with that labor. Although I am not this person yet, I seek to be the person whose desires include only that which we already have: the full spectrum of human emotion, our ability to convey that emotion, and the medium upon which we may convey it (this lovely planet).
What is your passion?
What labor warms you, rewards you, and nourishes your being? What is it that you do, or want to do, which reminds you of the gift of life? Is it enough to simply live, to breathe, to walk to your destination, or to create structures in your mind – whose construction crews know no bounds – or do you need more?
My passion is to help others, to listen, and to teach. These are all woven together. I seek to open my ears, and my heart, and discard my ego so that I may truly absorb your story. And then, if my humble reservoir of knowledge contains a proper answer, I wish to teach you how to live better. My ears and my heart are open for you to teach me as well.
My passion to listen and to teach can be applied to nearly anything that is in place in our current job market. If your frame of mind permits you to construct the path to implementing your passion, you will see that the means to do so has always been there. Always, there is a family member who wants to talk, an urban youth who needs a mentor, or a new employee who requires orientation. And if you can find none of these things, then remember that you as well require nourishment.
I want to understand this world we live in, the culture that swaddles each and every one of us. I want to understand why fanaticism for material things often mutes the vital drumming of our own human nature. I want to know why compassion often sits idly by to wait as we all build our resumes and stack our accolades.
Because I want to understand, I wish to pose questions off and on, for as long as it contents me to do so. I encourage your participation, reader, because you are one of many people I seek to understand. Once I understand you, I seek to find a path to a better way of living, because it is within our grasp always; my intuition tells me so.
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What do you believe to be important in life?
This is a tough one because I’m constantly changing my mind. At times I think my own happiness is most important to me but being a compassionate person at heart I can’t be happy unless I make other people happy as well. Being in the service business I’ve grown fond of watching peoples faces light up when I give them a good deal or give them good news, but loathe the expressions I get when I give them bad news. So, I guess that’s what’s most important to me is making sure I’m making an impact on peoples lives around me and making sure it’s a positive one.
What, above all else, do you seek to do in your lifetime?
I think I would just like to be respected in all forums of my life. Take every skill I have and hone them to a level that people can awe and respect. My worse fear is to be forgotten about and cast aside. So, if I can avoid that before I die then I’ll have achieved everything in my life.
What is your passion?
To put it short, my passion is having compassion for everything and everyone in my life. People often say I have too much compassion at times. I say there is no such thing.