Learning is the first step and it is a necessary one. You gotta learn how to learn. Learning how to unlearn the greed and cruelty foisted upon you by culture and relearning the love you understood before you were taught possessiveness, that is what you do the rest of your life. And well into the next one, if there is a next one. Maybe there is another one to come after all, who can know? But you have to learn how to unlearn the bad stuff and how to relearn the good. Which all takes time. Which is why I always go on about how maddeningly short our lives are but, again, who can say. Maybe with more time to kill before time manages to kill us, we’d just drag our feet even longer.
Identity, ego, avarice, confidence, stridency, surety, dogmas, binaries, fear itself and the hate that living in fear creates? Adulthood is letting all of it go! Having learned them and unlearned them, having truly understood them and their utter-uselessness that long way around, from experience.
That gap between what we believe we desire and what we actually understand is so much more damn vast than we will ever care to admit. Perhaps if we lived a thousand years or ten thousand years, we’d have the time to sort it all out. But again, even then, that’d be a long-shot and a half.
We damnable humans have to learn things the long way round to truly understand them, in cycle and in process, it’s the most frustrating thing about being one. Things we heard or read, we know, but things we experience full circle, we truly understand. And, maybe, afterwards we’ll share the lessons with divinity that it might create some less-cruel order with the knowledge you gathered.
Maybe. If not, it makes us treat each other better and that’s what really matters. You are not here to covet and hate and fear, you can change even now. You can choose to love! All it takes is one admittedly-difficult decision. You’re not pot-committed to hate. You cannot understand the light until you go through the darkness and transcend back up into that light all over again. This takes time and sweat and loss and effort on top of that choice, of course, but none of that holy journey happens unless you make the split-second decision to flip off the lights? Then flip them back on.
Unlearn greed. Unlearn fear. Unlearn hate. Unlearn tribal identity. See that a forest IS a bunch of individual trees and all distinctions in-between are merely meaningless distractions. Choose love. You are not the boxes you learned yourself into nor are you the opposite boxes they’ve set up, so you’re still trapped in definitions and declinations while thinking yourself so freed. Choose love.
You’re human, so’s everyone else. Choose love. You’re scared, so’s everyone else. Choose love. You’re sacred, so’s everyone else. The first big step to unlearning fear is relearning how to love.
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