Love's Gift.

@MsSsHussain

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. 

     I think we've all had moments where we feel like failures, failed, or were not able to achieve what we hoped for. If we didn't experience failure, how would one know success? But then I thought about the word failure - these thoughts were further explored as I watched this TED talk. I reflected upon the ideas of the speaker, and wondered how the word failure actually exalt the idea of self-hate, hurting the self, deep despair, or feeling a sense of unworthiness. Failure is the idea that one has not been able to achieve, or not at the point that one desired. But it doesn't mean that the object, act, or the point that was desired is not achievable. In this sense if we think of our word choices, how we decide to label a failure, we can think about how self-perceptions would dramatically change. These are details, probably very minute for some. But it is these details that could turn a person around, a life around, a human around. 

     Ideally humans who are service - focused have the desire to impact the many, but sometimes it is that impact upon one human being, that is equivalent to many, or even a million lives. As we move through the stages of life, unworthiness, or not being able to achieve what we had hoped for, or even not being at the ideal norms for a particular stage in life; is ok. While we have norms and labels for success and failure, each and everyone of us are an individual human being. Each of us having similar yet, different heeds as to how our needs are fulfilled.  Sometimes getting to the points we need to be at is simply a case of feeling loved, supported, cared for, nourished. Sometimes those who are the hardest to love, need to be loved the most.

     Ideas, advancements, goals, personal and professional matter. They have to matter, anything less would take away our sense of purpose, or who we are as a person. When our purpose is taken away, lost, diminished, we loose who we are. That is the very core and crux of our being. Our life purpose is continually made and re-made, as we grow and go through life. Its what makes us want to live, and breathe each and every day. Passion drives our purpose. When passion diminishes, purpose diminishes.

     There are many factors that influence this cycle, including political, and Government constraints that aim to control the flow of ideas, thoughts, and shutting down thinkers. This is not new. It has happened before, and even to many great thinkers throughout history, many of whom were artists. But I think: what is progress, social progress, and innovation, when there are still cycles such as constraining and limiting thought? As thinkers we know that not every idea will manifest in the physical realm, but there are the select few ideas that we focus upon that emerge visibly. 

     So I wonder what if we could allow thoughts to flow without external limitations and constraints? What if we could unblock the blocks? What if we could encourage the student right from the K-12 levels to the point of a Ph. D.? Everyone needs to feel that their ideas are valuable and worthy. While the point of failure, or not being at the point where we had hoped for might prove detrimental, one must look within, reach within the self, and realize that you are your source of hope, you yourself have to understand that you matter. Sometimes this self-understanding can be attained alone, sometimes it is regained from the loving presence of another human being, in the form of Gods image, Gods spirit.

My thoughts to share with love & kindness! :)

​Notes: These thoughts were originally hand-written on December 13th, 2018.
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