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Step into the Light, Understand Illumination
2 years ago
'w'! Hello! Have you ever not known about something, but then suddenly... You knew? Of course, that's called learning! (A shame most cannot understand this...)
"Dear adventurer. You walk forward today to find your path. Several stones ahead guide you in the darkness. As you feel around, each stone is a spire covered in a different texture. One soft. One rough. One smooth. One warm. you find a circle of light ahead. As you step into the light, you feel blinded at first, but then you can see. You can see. You. Can. See."
Learning from our mistakes makes us grow. It allows us to understand the world better. Growth is good, it's progress towards perfection. Perfection is unobtainable as a totality, but nothing is stopping us from reaching and stepping towards it. Some might call it enlightenment, some might call it Nirvana or inner peace or even balance. Different steps along the way towards that find perfect form, perfect frame, perfect thought... But you will never reach it... So you learn. You learn that you don't need to reach perfection, but reaching each individual stepping stone set before you is more important.
Become a kind person, understand that others are always fighting a war that you cannot see. Being soft does not make one any less of a person; if anything, it imparts empathy. Empathy is a core survival instinct in a social creature. We work together, understand together, grow together.
Keep yourself from becoming a fiend on your journal, understand that those around you may offer incorrect knowledge or provoke you in order to gain something from you. You have to be rough to understand that you are not someone's tool. You are fighting your own invisible war. Others who don't understand, who don't acknowledge you, who sabotage you, should not block your way.
Become a person who helps others, understand that everyone is struggling, and everyone is suffering in different ways; even if they cannot admit to it. Helping another person is key to helping yourself. The computer you're on? You didn't create it, another person did. The bread you're eating? Did you grow the wheat? Even if you did... Where did you get the seeds? Did you know they were cultivated by others to what they are today? Nothing is done alone... And you should repay that respect to others. The path is only smooth if you have others to help you pave it, and you must help others pave their own path.
Keep yourself from becoming a cynical, self centered, and cold person. While maintaining yourself, you need to reflect upon yourself as well. The world is rough, it is hard, and many will tell you 'every man for himself' or 'you're alone in all this'. These phrases actively harm others. Do not let them get to you. You are never alone. You are always supported. People will help you, if you reach out. Hold that warmth in your heart, for it will guide you towards the goal. You will realize that people who helped you are vastly more important than those who hinder you.
Realize. Realize your mistakes. They are not a flaw. They are not bad. They are mistakes. We are all children pawing around in the darkness. We will knock over things while wandering. We will make mistakes. We will hurt people, we will experience and inflict heartbreak, we will even find the smallest inconveniences are just little mistakes. They are mistakes. You can grow from your mistakes. This light around you, it gives warmth, it gives life, it radiates... And you can share it.
Look to a tree. See every little flaw within the bark. See how the limbs aren't perfect, how they wind or spread or grow. See how each leaf is different in its own way. Little mistakes. Little imperfections. The tree learns from this. It has memories of its mistakes... But it survives. It grows. It adjusts.
Whether you feel unredeemable, or feel you've hurt too many, or feel you have shattered everything... Forgiveness exists. Growth exists. Learning exists. There are very few evil souls in this world; they do exist... They are not as abundant as many may think though... But remember... Most people are not evil, they just do evil things. Redemption is hard, because the human mind holds grudges, it holds hatred, it holds fear, it remembers. The more you've fallen... The harder it is to rise back up... But it is not impossible... And some people feel that they have fallen too far, not realizing, they're only within reach of redemption.
The path to change is hard... Human psychology hates change... It hates progress... Because the survival instinct within the human mind is to stick to 'what works'. It is a stagnation that needs to be fought. You must not become comfortably numb, you must not become a stagnant pond. Just because you are ignorant to your surroundings, doesn't mean they won't close in on you soon. To grow as a human, we must shed these instincts. We must grow. We must learn.
To be human is an interesting experience. I really do wish I could be something else. I am an aberration and an outlier compared to the populace. People don't realize... When you find an outlier, you do not burn it, you do not hide it, you do not destroy it... You study it. Why does it exist... An aberrant human offers insight that the human instinct may not be able to realize on its own... That is how we have grown. An example... Geniuses are aberrant humans. If everyone was a genius, or if they were more common, would they not be as special as we make them out to be? They are outliers. They guide us. Not all are guides... Some will exploit their knowledge to control others... Humans like being controlled... It's part of that 'social animal' instinct. A direction to go, especially if it means survival... Even if in the long term it may doom them... We don't think in long term, no animal does, they think of the now and how to not die; also how to reproduce, get food, etc. Survival things.
'w';! OH! HECK! I didn't mean for this to be long... Uh... I know maybe only... A few of you might read this? Even fewer still might even understand it? Um... One last thing...
"Those that need to grow... Will never realize it... Saplings who see themselves as a complete tree... But full of imperfections that keep spiraling."
When you offer advice to people... Those that need to hear it most... Will not hear it... Or if it challenges their world view, their brain actively FIGHTS it... Growth... Is an aberrant behavior... Sadly... But... It is also an aberrant behavior to be so caustic to others... We're social animals, after all.
"Dear adventurer. You walk forward today to find your path. Several stones ahead guide you in the darkness. As you feel around, each stone is a spire covered in a different texture. One soft. One rough. One smooth. One warm. you find a circle of light ahead. As you step into the light, you feel blinded at first, but then you can see. You can see. You. Can. See."
Learning from our mistakes makes us grow. It allows us to understand the world better. Growth is good, it's progress towards perfection. Perfection is unobtainable as a totality, but nothing is stopping us from reaching and stepping towards it. Some might call it enlightenment, some might call it Nirvana or inner peace or even balance. Different steps along the way towards that find perfect form, perfect frame, perfect thought... But you will never reach it... So you learn. You learn that you don't need to reach perfection, but reaching each individual stepping stone set before you is more important.
Become a kind person, understand that others are always fighting a war that you cannot see. Being soft does not make one any less of a person; if anything, it imparts empathy. Empathy is a core survival instinct in a social creature. We work together, understand together, grow together.
Keep yourself from becoming a fiend on your journal, understand that those around you may offer incorrect knowledge or provoke you in order to gain something from you. You have to be rough to understand that you are not someone's tool. You are fighting your own invisible war. Others who don't understand, who don't acknowledge you, who sabotage you, should not block your way.
Become a person who helps others, understand that everyone is struggling, and everyone is suffering in different ways; even if they cannot admit to it. Helping another person is key to helping yourself. The computer you're on? You didn't create it, another person did. The bread you're eating? Did you grow the wheat? Even if you did... Where did you get the seeds? Did you know they were cultivated by others to what they are today? Nothing is done alone... And you should repay that respect to others. The path is only smooth if you have others to help you pave it, and you must help others pave their own path.
Keep yourself from becoming a cynical, self centered, and cold person. While maintaining yourself, you need to reflect upon yourself as well. The world is rough, it is hard, and many will tell you 'every man for himself' or 'you're alone in all this'. These phrases actively harm others. Do not let them get to you. You are never alone. You are always supported. People will help you, if you reach out. Hold that warmth in your heart, for it will guide you towards the goal. You will realize that people who helped you are vastly more important than those who hinder you.
Realize. Realize your mistakes. They are not a flaw. They are not bad. They are mistakes. We are all children pawing around in the darkness. We will knock over things while wandering. We will make mistakes. We will hurt people, we will experience and inflict heartbreak, we will even find the smallest inconveniences are just little mistakes. They are mistakes. You can grow from your mistakes. This light around you, it gives warmth, it gives life, it radiates... And you can share it.
Look to a tree. See every little flaw within the bark. See how the limbs aren't perfect, how they wind or spread or grow. See how each leaf is different in its own way. Little mistakes. Little imperfections. The tree learns from this. It has memories of its mistakes... But it survives. It grows. It adjusts.
Whether you feel unredeemable, or feel you've hurt too many, or feel you have shattered everything... Forgiveness exists. Growth exists. Learning exists. There are very few evil souls in this world; they do exist... They are not as abundant as many may think though... But remember... Most people are not evil, they just do evil things. Redemption is hard, because the human mind holds grudges, it holds hatred, it holds fear, it remembers. The more you've fallen... The harder it is to rise back up... But it is not impossible... And some people feel that they have fallen too far, not realizing, they're only within reach of redemption.
The path to change is hard... Human psychology hates change... It hates progress... Because the survival instinct within the human mind is to stick to 'what works'. It is a stagnation that needs to be fought. You must not become comfortably numb, you must not become a stagnant pond. Just because you are ignorant to your surroundings, doesn't mean they won't close in on you soon. To grow as a human, we must shed these instincts. We must grow. We must learn.
To be human is an interesting experience. I really do wish I could be something else. I am an aberration and an outlier compared to the populace. People don't realize... When you find an outlier, you do not burn it, you do not hide it, you do not destroy it... You study it. Why does it exist... An aberrant human offers insight that the human instinct may not be able to realize on its own... That is how we have grown. An example... Geniuses are aberrant humans. If everyone was a genius, or if they were more common, would they not be as special as we make them out to be? They are outliers. They guide us. Not all are guides... Some will exploit their knowledge to control others... Humans like being controlled... It's part of that 'social animal' instinct. A direction to go, especially if it means survival... Even if in the long term it may doom them... We don't think in long term, no animal does, they think of the now and how to not die; also how to reproduce, get food, etc. Survival things.
'w';! OH! HECK! I didn't mean for this to be long... Uh... I know maybe only... A few of you might read this? Even fewer still might even understand it? Um... One last thing...
"Those that need to grow... Will never realize it... Saplings who see themselves as a complete tree... But full of imperfections that keep spiraling."
When you offer advice to people... Those that need to hear it most... Will not hear it... Or if it challenges their world view, their brain actively FIGHTS it... Growth... Is an aberrant behavior... Sadly... But... It is also an aberrant behavior to be so caustic to others... We're social animals, after all.
I've been studying humans for a while now. It's the only way to blend in. *Beep!* Huhuhu! 'w'!
But uh, I was raised that kindness goes a long way... And life is a journey. Hate will always beget hate, it will always result in harm... "That person hates X/Y/Z" (can't just put X, that's a plaaaatfooorm~) then why do they hate it? Is there a way to stop it? Is what they hate causing harm? If not, then why don't they stop? (Why did the wind outside howl when I wrote that...) It's understanding others that we can grow and form bonds. But many don't want to understand... They don't want to grow... They stagnate... You know the types. You've run into them.
If I wanted id hunt down authors who echoed my world view. But truthfully I'd rather build mine upon facts than anothers opinion.
My world view is that the world is a machine. Every piece of it has a purpose, and understanding what that purpose is will help in understanding how to deal with it. Shame I'm not a mechanic, huhu! 'w'!