Growth: A Decision.

As I close my eyes and drift away to a land where there is love, health, peace, and blessings. I wanted to take the time to think and reflect. 

     A Bildungsroman is a genre of literary text that is usually about the psychological and moral growth of a main character. It is also known as a coming of age story that focuses on growth from youth to adulthood. I think that a Bildungsroman not only happens through the years of growing through youth, It can happen through the many life stages that we grow through, and even major events that require decisions. This is what I thought about as I sat in the park. Once again to embrace the beauty of Mother Nature. As I touched the grass, felt the sun upon my skin, and the wind gliding through my hair; I wondered and thought about land.

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​     Land belongs to everyone. Before there was any social construction about who gets what, or who this or that belongs to, everything belonged to everyone. However, society develops, evolves, there becomes meanings attached to everything. And it is these meanings that shape how we think, act, and behave towards anything. These meanings shape our core values. And of course it is these values which will eventually decide for us. We can live, grow, work, prosper, in lands where our values are incongruent to our own. But it is these
in-congruencies that will eventually create a dis-equilibirum within the self. It is the dis-equlibirum that will eventually lead us back to a point where we can, and will feel a sense of congruency, a point of equilibrium. We need to feel this connection between mind (what we think) and body (what we do).

     So as we learn more and more about the societal constructions of the world, we eventually come to understand and grow through this learning. We make choices, we make decisions,  that will contribute to our prosperity. Environment should never decide for you, but it is the social meanings that are attached to the environment that are involved in our processes of making decisions. In this sense a Bildungsroman happens not only from the period of youth to adulthood, this psychological and moral growth happens as we come into a heightened sense of awareness of the workings of the world, through the stages of life, and major events that require decisions. 

Dedication: What we go through, we grow through, are you ready? These thoughts are dedicated to all human beings, and to our Earth, our World. My thoughts to share with love & kindness! :) 

Notes: These thoughts were originally hand-written on October 20th, 2017.
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