Life is fluid. Nothing stays the same. Air moves, water obviously moves, even earth moves. Things that seem solid, when you get down to their molecules, seem much less so. So why are so obsessed with the stationary? The permanent? Is our need for stability rooted in our childhood? People always say children need stability. (Although I always felt the little Minions of Chaos were the antithesis of routine!)
My point being that so many people strive for sameness in a world that seems to embrace the concept of fluid. Its almost like we’re aliens trying to impose a bit of our home cuz we’re on another planet. Forcing or expecting stability in an ever changing world.
When I was a child, I was taught we came from Heaven & return there when we die. I remember thinking Heaven sounded pretty dull. Perhaps our souls come to Earth to experience something a little different. You know, take a walk on the wild side for a change of pace. When I was soul searching religion & God in my 20’s I liked the concept of Reincarnation primarily due to MY logic that if a soul’s journey was to learn about being human it would take more than one lifetime to do that. We are just too complex. Not only is there the experience of life as male and then female, there is the experience of being good and evil, whole and damaged, a charmed life and one that never got the breaks.
This belief REALLY took the pressure off me. I didn’t have to be PERFECT in this life, because really, who is and who can be?! See my Christian upbringing left in me the feeling I had to be SUPER Good and change or I’d end up in Hell. And, of course, their definition of “Super Good” was something that clashed with my own definition of who I was and wanted to be.
But the beauty of ideas is they are also fluid. I think we forget that. We are so hardwired into the concrete of science and laws (and Science Laws lol) that we forget we, as grown ups, are just bigger versions of children. i.e. WE are also Minions of Chaos. Each of us an individual with our own unique set of beliefs, desires, drive, woes and pleasures.
My highest goal is to be as non-judgmental as possible. My strongest challenge is to be as accepting of those who do not accept ME for me, and therefore judge me, as much as I possibly can. It’s truly difficult. Especially when you just want to scream at them.
“Hey! Who made YOU King/Queen of the Road/Store/World!”
Because what we’re really saying is…
“I’m JUST as important as you, and dammit, you’d better notice that!”