We live in an age where both humanity and planet earth are
going through a lot of changes. If we look back roughly fifty years ago, we
would have generally known our place and role in society. Women were housewives
or secretaries, and men were the breadwinners, the heads of the family.
We had
guidelines reinforced by war-time propaganda and shows like “I Dream of Genie”
and “Bewitched.” We had a rough idea of who we were, and what we were going to
do with ourselves in the future.
In our modern day and age, we have no clear guidelines. We
currently find ourselves changing from a Type Zero civilization to a Type One,
and one of the products of this change is the internet, a technology that
allows us to be a constantly interconnected civilization. National borders are
no longer barriers that stop us from communicating and progressing together. We
are becoming global citizens.
This can be seen as a source of liberation, or intense
confusion. The internet allows us to be exposed to a wider variety of voices,
its wealth of information allows us to see that it is possible to live our
lives differently. We now know going to school, to university, getting a
‘respectable’ job, getting married and getting a mortgage isn’t the only path
we can take.
We know there are people out there like Steven Spielberg and
Bill Gates who lead particularly successful lives without university degrees,
and established an inspiring legacy for all of us. We know that we can publish
our own book on Amazon, we can build our own websites, we can manage our
businesses wherever we have wifi, and we can find a special someone online who
really shares all our interests, rather than selecting people at random in the
darkness of bars and nightclubs.
What can you do?
There is one secret, that is not-so-secret, that will let us
find the answer we are searching for. And it is inside each and every one of
us. It is our intuition. Our inner voice. Our gut-feeling. Whatever you wish to
label it. We all have it. If we tune into this voice, we will never go wrong.
It will guide us exactly where we want to go, it will make sure you always go
after what will make you safe, happy, loved and fulfilled.
The tricky bit is blocking out all the external voices, the
external expectations that cause all the pressure. These voices can be very
loud, very firm, and they surround us every day. Learn to recognise them with
patience. Ask yourself: why am I doing this? Why am I thinking this?
Why am I
feeling this? Is this my voice? Or is this someone else’s voice? Analyse the
causes and the consequences of every major decision you have made or are being
faced with. Was it made out of love? Or was it made due to pressure? Did I tell
myself to do this? Or did someone else tell me to do this? Is this what I want
to do? Or is this what someone else thinks I should do?
We are lucky we can use the internet as a tool to connect
with people who are going through or who went through exactly what you are
going through right now, as an added form of support. Do some research to prove
to yourself that it is possible to be different and do things out of the
ordinary. Only by being out of the ordinary can you become extraordinary. Learn
to trust yourself. Trust your intuition. It will guide you. It will make you do
things you might never have done. And it will feel right. When you have that
feeling, never let it go.
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