Dear Reader
A wise mentor of mine told me today to resist the urge to see others as “stupid robotic inferiors” and to learn from them, to make a conscious attempt to view the world through different perspectives.
This is difficult for me to do. I know that in some of my writings, I may come off as arrogant, encouraging you to put conscious thought above all else, urging you to resist becoming the unthinking human, the robot who follows and does not listen, the one who watches with blind eyes the happenings of the world but refuses to analyze them…
These people that I urge you not to be are part of your journey, and you can learn from them. After all, they are human, and as much as you may not like to admit it, so are you. And so am I. i can tell you, I don’t like to admit it. Watch them. Place yourself in a position where you can see the people around you through an enlightened perspective. This is a place where you aren’t hurt easily; a place where you are armed with the knowledge of who you are. In watching others, in observation, we can learn from them. We can learn who not to be, we can learn new modes of thinking that may very well change our lives, we can learn more about our own minds, for there are things within our minds that we may not have discovered yet.
Many see my words and claim I urge you to be like me, but by no means am I a final product, or even something to model oneself after. I want to stress to you that I’m in the same place you may be. I struggle with myself. I wage war inside my head, between different philosophies, between what is and is not my self. I’m on a journey of discovery, just as many of you may be. I’m discovering my mind as I go, creating new ideas, throwing out old ones to replace them with those sturdier, fortified with beliefs and truths I’ve come upon. The mind is in a constant state of motion: changing, transforming, and hopefully becoming more and more beautiful, being closer to identifying its vessel.
Our lives are dependent on healthy self improvement, on making oneself all he or she can be. To be completely distant, to avoid observing your fellow human beings, to avoid empathy and compassion for those who want it is dooming yourself to learn from only yourself. With your own mind as the only source of knowledge, you will never reach your full potential. It is only by observing the world around us that we are able to grow. For upon realizing what we are not, we can come to the educated and enlightening conclusion of what we are.
