As I said. Maybe everything doesn’t have to be so hard?
Maybe all we need to do is find our natural position in the world and then lean into it?
Maybe that’s what it takes to blossom?
I know that’s easier said than done. I know it can be hard to feel that what we have, naturally, to give to the world is what the world needs from us the most.
I know that in a world that constantly advertises its vacancies for people who are prettier than we are, or smarter, or thinner, or richer, or faster or fleeter of foot than we’ll ever be, it is hard not to see ourselves as inadequate. Not to try to be some of those things that the world seems to want us to be.
But maybe you and I are wasting our precious time here trying to become something we aren’t?
Maybe that energy would be better employed working out who exactly we already are and what we can already do and then developing that? No matter what the world thinks?
Have a look at Rory McIlroy in the clip below. I wonder if those commentators would have seen then, what they see now?
To see things in the seed, that is genius – Lao Tzu
(P.S. – this video is also for my husband and children – bet you never thought I’d use a golf example, guys…)
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Wish it were so simple or easy… 🙁 🙂
Well, I never said it was simple!!!!! Maybe we don’t do it because it seems so hard?
Right! 🙂
That video is pretty amazing. I agree with you we need to find our space and not be pulled in to what the world (or is it the media) feeds into our mind that we need to be. Sometimes I thing (and I have done this) that people strive in areas that they don’t need to be) our success. Sometimes we would do well with just carrying on with where we are and cherishing (truly cherishing)the progress we make.
I think you are exactly right. But we are told something other than what we are is needed – and wanted – so we try to fill the ‘order’ – it’s natural. We need and want to belong and so we do whatever it takes to make that happen. If enough of us start to change though then it can change for children and young people because we won’t be threatened when they want to be themselves. We’ll be glad. Even if they never become famous golfers!
Brilliant! Just Brilliant!
Glad you liked it!
I love this – makes me think twice about Ralphie teaching himself how to ride a two-wheeler when he was four. Is his skill riding a bike or not giving up? What were you doing at age four?
Well he clearly is blessed with natural co-ordination – I certainly wasn’t doing that when I was four – but actually my eldest son did that too. Also at four. He also has great co-ordination. The thing is that no matter how they use it this is part of their truth and reality and I bet it has an important application. Maybe cycling was not only to do with coordination for Ralphie but also adventure and conquering tasks other thought hard? Looks like he might still be doing that?
When I was four I was hunting for fairies – not sure if that’s a skill that’s quite as transferable!!!!
Mmm, actually I’m still wonderig what I want to become “when I’m big” so this is interesting… Where do you start if you cannot swing a golf club? 😉 x
I think the answer might lie in having a good long think about what you did naturally when you were little. (Except maybe the hunting fairies example – see above!!!)
Lao Tzu said it so well so long ago. I was told by a very gifted minister some years ago that I was always exactly where God wanted me to be. In other words,bloom where you are planted!
Such good advice. Especially if you add the idea to become the ‘plant’ that you innately are!
You never know, do you? Someone must have been paying attention and helped him develop that skill.
That’s a very good point. Sometimes small children don’t have anybody to pay attention to who or what they are so maybe we need to pay attention to it ourselves? It strikes me that even the children who receive a lot of attention sometimes end up not being ‘seen’ anyway as their parents accidentally project themselves and their own unfulfilled parts onto their children. I think Jung noticed that as well – just said it more elegantly!
Such a good example…and such wise words. I wish you could bottle them up and sell them for consumption and immediate efficacy…but truth is truth. This is truth! Debra
I think it is true, Debra (obviously!!) but it seems to be like the Holy Grail or a pot of gold or something in a myth or legend that only works when we search and suffer and find it for ourselves? Not that I’m not a fan of their being an easier way! Just have never found that one!