WHAT IF — we chose to behave differently?

What if, we chose to behave differently?

If we organized society by different rules – what would you need to establish a new manner of being? New cultural and social norms?

What does our growth and change matter if it’s not reflected in the way we act, if not reflected in our own actions? Isn’t this what most people see as real? That space of action? And how those actions of ourselves and the people around us affect us, leading us to self reflect. The experience that leaves us with something to reflect upon.

Perhaps this is where so much of my disturbance arises, for I don’t wish to reflect on the menial and mundane aspects of society that so many take to be important topics. This would be, for me, found in those spaces like celebrity culture, popular trends, wealth and status, and getting ginormous homes in different states, etc. These things don’t seem to really be providing me with much life, much vitality, much importance at all. But then why is it such a big thing for society?

It’s true, I believe that my experience of the world should be reflected in the. larger world. Duh, that’s why I’m here.

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I have heeded the word of the people around me and the world around me for so long. I have let society determine what should be right for me, what I should take pleasure and interest in, and this is why I get so upset with the condition of my human experience, because it is difficult for me to see what is happening in the world, and not feel like I belong in the current with the rest of them.

It’s difficult being an outsider, being someone, who goes against the grain. Because, you’re no longer a part of the wood. You’re not a part of what you would think to be “the natural way of things”, you’re an enigma. A controversy.

A pebble in a tree. Perhaps. You get the metaphor.

But the (not so) strange thing is, I feel more myself as Nature than I do anything else. Of course, that should be the case, no?

It is true that the closest thing I have to feeling, to being, should be the thing that resonates the closest with Nature? The thing is, I have learned to fall into the freedom of natural order and the acceptance of my humanity as perfectly so.

I don’t want to “try” to be anything, for it’s in my nature to simply be as I am. 

So I will continue learning by interacting with the stimuli I have, moving through the world based on impulse and trial. It can be good to use your experience of Nature to build rules, to come to see patterns in the world, and make good judgements based on those patterns, those thoughts.

Essentially you are letting your natural rulebook determine how you move through the world, and what judgements you make on this world.

If we all approached ourselves, our bodies, our thoughts and those of other’s with such curiosity and inquisition, then we could start to shift our narrative towards a more “human” society.