We know that the official version of history is bullshit. Most people can’t remember what they had for lunch the day before let alone have a handle on decades past, not to even mention centuries and millennia hence.
Remember, historians/thinkers of prominence have ‘approved’ opinions and corrupted souls. They’re not good actors, they’re useful characters. The Communists go as far to call them useful idiots. They’ll swallow and say anything – and I’m gay!
Westerners have a terrible habit of feeling relentlessly guilty (I can attest to this!) and acting as if they’re a scourge on the planet. We’re not, we invented all the great stuff – to make people’s lives simpler and more abundant. We constantly berate ourselves for being manipulated, for being duped, it’s just how it goes. We learn as we go, we seem to think this is some terrible moral affliction. It isn’t. It’s the process.
We’re obsessed with the need for progress without having any of the reflection of how things work, of how we can be in a steadier state of flow in everything we do. The preparation for any event takes far longer than the real-time execution of it. No time to stand still, to pause, to consider – no time to be bored (something I am focusing on more and more at the moment – it’s cropping up everywhere).
Peace, solitude, quiet, reflection and observation, honing the ability to tune into immediate surroundings. Don’t think I am saying this is an overnight, easy task, it isn’t. We’re obsessed with speed and have forgotten pace.
The past is a place you can learn from.
Read things.
Watch things.
Listen to things.
I don’t give recommendations for ‘what’ to consume as I don’t pay attention to recommendations.
The stuff I need just comes up naturally.
I trust the process more and more and I see the past not as a way of righting wrongs but of living life better from here on in.
Every event is part of you.
Every step taken is irrevocably part of your history.
We fight so hard, wasting so much time, wishing things were different. They aren’t and never will be.
Spend each day doing as well as you can.
Acceptance is my new name for the past.