We have an illusion of safety, a wee chase, and run after as much as we can.
We think that if we get to a position where we can close the front door. And pull the curtains, even as the wind is blowing outside and it's raining, that we're safe and sound and nothing can happen to us.
It’s false, but it works.
We can get hit any minute with bad news, or bad luck, or something terrible. I always imagine it like walking down the street and turning the corner left. Only to encounter something that was unexpected. As Baz Luhrmann put it in the song, ‘We are Sunscreen’, something that hits you on , “some idle Tuesday afternoon”.
Still, off we go, safer and safer, more and more comfortable. What we're supposed to do is to use that to be better. We're supposed to use the safety that we feel, the comfort to push on.
To help more people.
To make things better.
To influence.
But as Maslow showed us all those years ago, so clearly. We get stuck in self-esteem.
We're herd animals, trying to fit in with the crowd all the time. And so, the more comfortable we get, the more we waste the comfort that we have and the safety that we perceive, in trying to fit in. In trying to wear the right clothes or drive the right car, or have the right watch, or go to the right places.
We should be using it better.
We should be using it for greater things.
But most of the time we don't.
Blog Post Number - 4827
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