Real Growth

Imo society has seldom demanded or required a person to be mature, intelligent or operate from integrity. Usually these traits are brought about by one who has an internal driver to seek them, or life rattles an individual to the point they have to face the facts and handle thier suffering in a different way.

We are a culture of ideals and morals, rules and regulations. These rules are often assumed as good and necessary, but how seldom that realization is someones own. The diffrence of knowing integrity and living it are like knowing about the events of WW1 from a textbook versus experiencing the zones of combat, the press chambers, or an intimate friends death. When you live it, taste it, experience it, it becomes your own.

  Talk is cheap. Imo.. we are a very immature and idealistic species. We arent taught how to acess our potential in school, and often we arent guided by our peers to a higher aim in life. Even religions have fallen short, they have failed.

We create a code of conduct,  but rather paying homage to the creator, instead we idol the code, fall below the code and are forced to act it out. When someone goes against it, there is judgement, distress, and gossip. When someone rises above it there is praise, reward, and awe. Its lies in the mechanics of it all.

But.. youve gotta leave theoreticals and deal with whats at hand in the best way you can. Rising above social conditioning (which is violence) takes everything we have. It takes time, effort, sacrifice, patience, resource, it takes self understanding. Real growth is in the hands of those unafraid to go against the masses, someone with courage to seek the truth and reciprocate it to others too. Real growth. Real knowledge, comes from direct experience.

Stop making more ideals and start realizing the significance of the ones your sitting on. Stop projecting outward and your journey of self knowledge begins. Its a relationship you can grow along side till your hour of death. Its the big picture, the heros journey. It doesnt belong to anyone, until it trusts its belonging to you. Once you claim it, noone can rob you of it. Its so essential.