To learn it’s an amazing thing. We learn in school, we learn with friends and life, we learn from mistakes and successes too, but if we just stay there, paused in a controlled and assumed way of thinking, we will not be ready for Life’s real challenges. When Life demands of us, a fast straight forward response. Usually our response ends up in tears, screams or a total system shutdown, but where does that lead us? Only to regret. That “I should have known better” feeling. Should you? Yes, we should. But for that we need to erase some of the things that have been taught to us. Yes, we have to question and search for other alternatives. We have to challenge and rebel against man made assumptions, and go back into the wild…
We have a nature that is getting override by ideologies that instead of really moving us, they paralyse our real natural call for thinking and feeling. Knowledge is great and the more one invests on it the further his views can reach, its fundamental to materialize and experiment on our thoughts, but if we don’t own any intuition, or creative open thinking, in times of trouble we will not find the right answer, or at least a good one.
So we really need to reach back into finding our nature, our five sensed being that understands Life’s rhythms, that incorporates in his thinking the patience to wait for the right season, the need to grow in order impress and call attention when one must, to know when to recoil and wait for better peaceful times, instead of blindly demanding all for now, I want it now, I want it like this, I, I, me, me.
We know we are losing connection with what we most value, but there are so many names, concepts like morals and values telling us to what we should obey that we no longer think beyond the rules, and sadly, many times in a unhealthy way, we stop feeling and stop being true to our nature, we loose the ability of being intuitively sharp.
One way we can realize what we are, is to go back to nature, and watch how things follow a certain order, but never without an astute vigilant state of existing. This is so important.
This astute vigilant mental state can work for moments of crisis, of fear, but should also be present in purely enjoying the pleasure of being alive, of being in the world, but note, not on a solitude state, instead. exist involved in a community. Yes, we need to feel confident in our own strength, abilities and capacity to defend what’s most vital to us, but don’t exclude yourself from being with others. We need, in every way, to be involved in a community. We need to exist in community.
Heard this term not so long ago, “intellectual humility”, which is when one keeps asking himself, what can I learn from this, how is it that this could be different? For fear of showing ourselves vulnerable and fail, most of us choose to almost always act as having the right answer, but we know where that leads us… fights, war, crashes and very sadly, to blindness in forgiving and the lack of openness to change and grow.
The inspiration for these thoughts comes from some sad past events, that I so wish could be changed, but also from the richness of having met a country and people that pursue their inner wilderness. Þakka þér fyrir (Thank you in Icelandic)
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