Some days I realize I pose a bit of a conundrum as I juxtapose ideas about how unique and wonderful we all are while also suggesting that we explore ways to better ourselves. Why is this?
Right now, exactly as we each are today, we are still the one-of-a-kind-gift-from-the-Universal-God that was gifted to humanity with our arrival on Earth on the day of our birth. Yet since that day, we have been socialized, institutionalized and molded — both consciously and unconsciously — by adults, peers and our own devices as we absorbed all kinds of relevant, important, worthy ideas about who we are, how we should act, what we should do, where we should be at different phases of our lives, when we should do certain things and so forth. Plenty of irrelevant info was also processed and internalized as well. And maybe I should add that some information that may have been relevant at a certain time or place, might now benefit from an inventory update — much like we might sort through our closets to decide what still fits us in every sense of the word — and what does not.
Usually by about age 5, we started to look beyond our innate wisdom towards others in search of our answers. We stopped trusting ourselves and started believing others had those answers we wanted and needed. Juxtaposed to this is that there’s a lot of science and art research that touts that between ages 3-5 years old we are actually at our highest levels of creativity because we are still uninhibited — so our imaginations, curiosity and willingness to explore and experiment without fear of failure or judgement was at an all-time high.
And herein lies the reason I believe in constantly exploring opportunities to question, listen, learn, explore, process, reconsider, assess, keep, edit and go forward. None of this is a critique of our pasts nor those oh-so-very busy people who did their best to make us responsible adults. Rather it is an acknowledgment of life and its many constants. It’s also part of my search: To get as close as possible to the innocence of a 3-5 year old…with the wisdom of my 63 year old self. I don’t know if it’s possible. But I’m determined to try. As always I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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