Growing up in, and being a person who has leaned towards controlling ways of being, I can completely understand how we as a species have got to this point in our world of trying to control everything. We are more controlled now than we have probably ever been, and I believe we have done this from a genuine underlying belief that we are making things better. And, I am not saying that all the control we have created through our laws and legislation and morals hasn't been just fine in the big picture of our evolutionary process -- but maybe we are ready for more.
I once heard it said that if we found the "missing link" in the human evolutionary process all we would have done is discovered two more gaps to fill, on either side of that link, to connect the whole chain. And I am thinking that is maybe what we are now tripping over in our western world of rules. Every time we make a rule have we just then created two gaps on either side of that rule that will then require another connecting rule to complete the book of rules on how we should be? The ripple effect, of creating two additional gaps for every one gap we are trying to close, seems to be turning into tsunamis proportions.
So, if we do not try and create rules and regulations, laws and legislation, about every possible human scenario, how does one know how to be in the world? Well, maybe we are ready to listen more to the inner voice, versus the outer voice? Maybe our next step is about trusting each other more? Maybe if we believed in ourselves more, it would be easier to believe in each other? Maybe we are ready for the goal to be more about our joy than the completed to do list? Maybe we are ready to see more of the 'geniusness' in each other? Maybe one day the generations to follow will marvel at how hard we worked at trying to do the right thing, when they just take for granted that they know how to be in the world?
Maybe.
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