Every day the Universe’s call to us humans is the same: Become better.
When we wake up, we have some key questions to answer. How will we learn from what happened the day before? What will we change based on new information we’ve gathered? Who will we be, during our time on this Earth? Will we strive to keep improving, or stay forever the same? What are we going to make of this day?
We can certainly say that right now in America we’re facing a huge call to be better. This has also been true throughout history—each moment we are given the opportunity to do better than we did before. And humans have learned, over time. (Maybe a little too slowly?) Even though times are still hard, we are living in the best time in history to be alive.
But current events continue to make it clear there is still so much for us to learn, and so much room to grow.
Because if we’re not growing, we’re dead.
You can accept and love the person you were yesterday AND strive to do better today. When I talk about being a better person, I mean becoming more aligned with Love and more Unified—with ourselves, our species, our world, our existence.
I believe that we are on the edge of a true tipping point as a human species to return to these values. We’ve been circling back to this spot again and again over the course of history, but the events of 2020 hit different. Because now we have tools humanity has never had before: instant news updates via social media, worldwide communication, accountability, and access to literally every form of knowledge from all of recorded human history online. What all this means is that there are no more excuses: it’s time to learn how to be a free thinker.
We need to wake up.
One thing in life is absolutely sure: we don’t know shit.
I’m sorry, I know that sounds harsh. But think about how little, in the grand scheme of the entire universe, we humans actually know. I mean, some people still believe the earth is flat. So there’s that.
Now, you may not be that level of uninformed, but you definitely know less than you think you do. We’re constantly making scientific advances that prove that what we thought was Absolutely, Certainly True was really totally wrong. And often what we believe is based off what other people taught us—especially when we are young and our brains haven’t developed critical thinking.
The good news is that our own personal experiences and research can open our minds up to new perspectives.
Most of our thoughts are rooted in beliefs that were given to us by family, religion, society, etc. Some of them may be awesome and helpful, but it’s likely many of them aren’t true or are rooted in hate or fear.
It’s up to us as we grow up to start to question and evaluate those thoughts and beliefs.
You must learn how to think for yourself by questioning everything.
I believe a big reason we experience so much pain and separation is that people have stopped thinking for themselves. Instead of doing the work to question what is true or not, we blindly accept and agree with whatever the people close to us think. We fit into our tribe. (Mark Manson’s book Everything Is F*cked: A Book about Hope is a great resource for more about this.)
I mean this sincerely: trust no one. I don’t mean that to be taken to the extreme, but we must acknowledge that, unfortunately, NO ONE has the answers.
Everyone is operating from their narrow worldview. No matter how woke someone might be, they still only can ever know only a tiny fraction of all there is to know. This is why it’s important to seek diversity in your own life: make friends with all sorts of different people, travel to many different places, have lots of life experiences. Then you can piece together those slices of experience to create growth.
Sometimes I run into this situation when readers DM me. I have had a lot of people reach out to me after I shared my story about my symmastia, asking for advice for what they should do. And while I can share my own experience, every single person and circumstance is so different that I can’t offer the answer, but only an opinion. We must each take charge of our own health and wellbeing. You can gather advice, but no one knows what’s right for you except you.
Living with a chronic injury taught me a lot, especially:
You don’t need a guru. YOU are the guru.
This is why self-love is so important, why it’s key to build a relationship with yourself. You need to learn how to trust yourself and your intuition. This guiding light will always lead you to the truth, if you can open yourself up to hear its call.
Yes, it takes work to continue to educate yourself to grow.
But would you really rather be just another sheep?
Learning is a lifelong experience. But our society is structured to prevent that. We get so burned out by our rigid and failing educational system that when many people graduate from school, they celebrate never having to open a book ever again.
We’ve made learning a miserable experience. And I get it: who wants to read again after being forced to read endless boring-AF books under intense pressure for performative grades? Even I took a long break from reading in my 20s, even though I’ve always, always been a bookworm. We prioritize other things.
But nothing should be more important than continuing to open our minds. This is how we’ll create a better world.
So start to ask yourself: Is this thought true? Can you know for certain that it’s true? What would it mean if it’s in fact not true? Meditation is the best tool to help you start to become more mindful.
Being able to grow is a gift. Don’t be afraid to change your stance, to take back what you’ve said previously, to admit you’re wrong. We all have been. We just have to do our best to learn and expand.
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What experiences have helped you become a better person? Let’s talk in the Comments below!
xo,
Amy
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