Personal Meditation No. 114

“Your beliefs are your actions. What you say is just what you think.”

Embrace the Within.

I am in a diverse amount of groups on social media because I have a diverse amount of interests and always want to learn new things. I find the vast difference in what people focus to be enchanting and attractive. That so many folks can find so many different things to motivate them is reassuring. These people give me the hope that there are more folks out there looking, learning, and listening than I would guess at first glance. Groups are what we do as social creatures. We tribe up with those that share our beliefs and values.

Now there are negative things that can come out of groups as well BUT I like to overlook them as problems with individuals. Problems with self ownership and self control. Just like mobs can get folks all worked up, religion can get folks all worked up, patriotism can get folks all worked up, any group of people is predisposed to group-thinking. That is just how group dynamics work. It is up to each individual to be aware of group dynamics and be an individual inside the group.

You can blame the group for how you act BUT then you’re admitting you lack self control. And that’s great to acknowledge BUT that is then something you need to work toward fixing. I think we do really well at identifying our faults. We see people broadcast their problems all day long in living color or in video rants or in print on social media. Identifying our problems is never a problem. Working on those problems is.

I think a lot of folks are determined they were born being who they are and that’s where it ends. They believe they were born knowing how to walk and talk and drive a car. Folks don’t like to think that those things take education. That you have to learn those things. That you have the potential for those things but you have to make your mind figure out how to do those things. A lot of that misunderstanding is social. Folks tend to think all the learning in life comes from schooling. Folks want schools to start schooling in this and that pet project of their choosing. They want schooling to replace education. They want schooling to supplant education. BUT education happens everywhere. Education happens anytime. Education happens despite you. Sometimes we just don’t learn the lessons until much later. Most of us are stubborn. We are set in our ways, set on our path, stuck in a rut.

BUT we don’t have to be set or stuck. We can keep learning. We can learn right here. We can learn over there. We can in our car. We can learn in our job. We can learn outside. We can learn from our friends. We can learn at the gym. We can learn anytime, anywhere. We just have to be open to the lessons.

It’s easy to recognize your faults BUT we take very little time to celebrate our potential. I think we should celebrate that more. We should focus on the change. We should focus on the victories. We should focus on growing as a person. I will stop learning, stop growing, stop working on myself when I die, until then I have the job of becoming a better human. I hope you are clocking in to that job too.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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