I read a story this morning, about a minor Hollywood star,
who went to the DMV, motor vehicle department in California…
he went in with a bad attitude, making a fuss right from the start…
and then later realized he had forgotten his wallet in a taxi…
and made a huge fuss about them letting him get by without some form
of I.D because he was a star and everyone knew him…
left and came back shortly to accuse someone of stealing his glasses…
and the moral of this story is that he was aware of one thing and one thing
only, himself…he had no understanding of the fact he was one of many people
in the DMV office, and given how many DMV offices we have here, one of thousands
in a DMV office and one of thousands engage in activity with the government here…
he was so lock into himself and his thoughts and his feelings that there wasn’t room
for anything else…
we get so lock into our thoughts and actions, we forget that we too
are also part of billions of people and a part of hundreds of systems…
or to say another way, we, individually, are just one atom in the midst of
billions of atoms…
to understand, really understand who we are, you must place us into
context, of each of us being one voice in the midst of billions…
you must become aware… and in doing so, begin to place us into
context…you want to know your place in this story… this human story…
begin by understanding that billions have come before you and billions more
will come after you…context is everything… context is just another word for
experience…and what is your context in everything? what is your place in everything?
do we ever rise above context? no, but we can make sense of and learn what
is possible within that context…
but the first step, the very first step is to become aware… place yourself in some
context and see your role within the many systems of which you are part of…
become aware…see every action you make as if you were on stage in a play,
does your action/actions make sense in the play currently going on?
what if you don’t like your lines? rewrite them…
what if you don’t like your part? get a different part…
expand your thinking about who you are and what is your role…
and all this can only happen once you become aware of who you are…
or said differently, once you begin to understand your context in life…
everything begins with awareness…
Kropotkin