#530: Into Infinity
How learning is different for everybody, and a second thing I'll mention later...
The plan was not to write anything long-form this week. My brain has other ideas. A lot of reality has happened, and I have many feelings about it.
Sharing is something I wish more people did as a matter of priority. Somebody doing this yesterday gave me the opportunity to prepare myself sensibly for a process that I knew would be difficult, and it granted both space and time to be able to lean into what was, as it transpires, an equally important experience, just not the one that was happening for other people.
I’m being particularly vague here for a very good reason. Increasingly online, you will see people failing to factor in their own shortcomings when discussing things. Often, events and experiences are attacked for completely the wrong reasons. Sometimes, you are the problem. In the past few days, without exception, that has applied to me. My inability to manage perception issues did, and has caused friction.
The fact this took place both on and offline is a warning sign that must be obeyed.
Getting people to think past the reality they exist in has always been a tough ask. Right now, it is increasingly apparent just how blinkered some people have become, and as a result how their own needs can and do end up destroying other people’s enjoyment. In a certain light, it remains selfish, and utterly unnecessary. Education is the key to allowing everyone an ability to adapt themselves internally to change.
The problem, such as it has always been, is that a vast number of people have absolutely no desire to give up their comfort to accommodate others. They are, at their cores, selfish and arrogant, believing that they are somehow the genetically superior beings. God, I was told last week, is here to remind us that nobody is without blame and that we all need to pick up our game right now.
Religion is rarely a problem. The people who weaponise it are always an enemy.
What this all means in practical terms for me is a process of relearning, processing, assessment and then doing. By doing so yesterday, I am also mentally exhausted today, which is the limiting and simultaneously significant factor. If it’s hurting, it’s working when I exercise my body. Very much the same can be said for my brain, and therefore we are at the beginning of something significant.
There will be some pain, and some stress, but things will improve.