The journey of our future starts right here and now. Where are you going?
From the moment we were born we were indoctrinated with ideas, rules and opinions not only about the world but, more unfortunately, about ourselves. Our environment has highly contributed to the person who we are today. We were basically told how the world works and how we fit into it. It is time to review this conditioning and finding out who we really are and start creating our own worldview that will empower and enrich our lives and the lives of people around us.
Who is the person I truly am? Do I want to get upset about the things that I do? How do I want to be in relationship with my loved ones and my fellow travelers? How intimately do I know the people that mean something to me? And how intimately do they know me? Questions that many of us do not even consider asking themselves. Yet, this is ultimately the most satisfying journey that we can embark upon.
Looking at someone and feeling the deep connection fills us with grace and utter gratitude for live itself. Yet, too often are we willing to walk through life without taking the time to stop and to meet in that space beyond our everyday lives and struggles.
Welcoming these struggles as an opportunity to learn is an old taught wisdom. It is the path to liberation, to ourselves and to others. Every struggle is an invitation to ourselves. An invitation for new discoveries, new direction and new experiences as we move from the known into the realms of the unknown, where magic happens.
I don’t know why I am saying these things, I don’t know why I react like I do, I don’t know why I can’t just hold you and truly listen to your dreams and feelings in a supportive and open way, I don’t know why I am the way I am but I know one thing: I would like to know because I don’t want to miss out on my children growing into adults without me knowing them and them not knowing me, because I would not like to lose you (even though it feels like I lost you a long time ago), I would not like to live through life without ever experiencing the multitude of emotions that are available to us as human beings. I would like to grow into the person I want to be.
To do just that, thought, requires that we stop. That we let go of our shame and guilt which has never been ours anyway, and that we open up to the vastness and depth that life has to offer. Truth resonates in every cell within us. If we can’t feel this vibration then we have truly never touched, never seen, never listened and never loved and the sad thing is: if we can’t feel this vibration then we have equally never been touched, never been seen, never been listened to and never been loved not because there is no one there that cared but because we have not allowed ourselves to receive. What are we punishing ourselves and others for? Life is too short.
There is an old Navajo saying “what ever happens here on Earth must first be dreamed”, and Vincent Van Gogh said “I dream my painting and then I paint the dream”, so let’s start dreaming from the very depths of our full human beingness and create that person that we truly want to be. There is nothing that holds us back, except for ourselves. This world is too sad for too many of us, so let’s start dreaming big and let’s begin now!
By Halka Beseda
And here is a wonderful piece of music by Marvin Gaye: Where are we going? Enjoy.
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