I haven’t done a very good job at providing an example of where structures tend to create bloating internally due to unhealthy designs in support vs restriction. That’s because I realized it’s going to take a very long example to highlight the points I want to make, and if I really want to do it well I’ll have to write a book about it instead.
Today’s theme on my social media pages (@themelissareddick on Facebook, Instagram and Threads) has been about free will and choices. I want to carry on that theme here, too.
There are many choices that we as individuals might not be aware we can make because no one ever taught us to see them clearly before. This can prohibit (restrict) your ability to even surmise (imagine) what your purpose can be, because no one has presented it to you as an option yet. That’s a problem, definitely.
It’s more likely in today’s society that people are actively DIScouraging you from looking at where your purpose is hiding. Like Mom hiding Christmas presents from her kids, except not the good kind of hiding. When Mom is hiding Christmas presents it’s because she wants them to be a surprise and doesn’t want the surprise ruined before Christmas. When parents or teachers or guidance counselors are trying to discourage you from looking in the direction of your heart’s desires, it’s actually not a good thing. Especially not for you.
The good thing about purpose is that no matter how many people discourage you from seeking it out, it will always be there bothering you. No matter how much you drink to try and accept the life you settle for when you’re not pursuing that which is driving you forward, it will somehow find a way to drive you out of that avoidance eventually.
Maybe today is that day. Maybe that day has already happened, and now you’re stuck in a life that is falling apart and you’re not sure where to go to fix it.
So today’s journaling prompt is simple: where are you avoiding looking to see if your sense of purpose can be found over there?
Acting? Singing? Dancing? Writing? Painting? Drawing? Sewing? Iron forging? Teaching? No one’s purpose is just teaching, honestly. Teaching is something you do once you’ve mastered your craft as much as you can on your own and now you’re ready to go further by sharing what you know with others and learning more in the same vein.
Farming? Building houses? Engineering? Architecture? Design of some kind? Spellwork? Again, no one’s purpose is just to sit around and cast spells all day. Or another way to put it is that’s everyone’s purpose on Earth. So no, not sorcery. That’s a byproduct of being human and believing in Magick, being able to recognize where you’re doing it in your own life.
Where in the world, in any civilization (modern or ancient), any society, any continent, any group of people in history or today can you look at even one person and say “that’d be cool if that’s what I came here to do”?
If your answer is “selling people”, “sex trafficking”, “being a hooker” or “pimp”, or some other human right’s violation…think again. Or go to a different website because I don’t have anything that can help you here. If it’s “buy slaves as a way of freeing them from their chains of captivity, and earn billions of dollars in order to do this seemingly humanitarian thing”…I challenge you to consider what the people you’re buying think about this. Do they want to be free? Or were they voluntarily selling themselves in order to not have to do all the work of building their own lives in a foreign country, but rather to serve someone else’s dream?
That is the easy way out, just serve someone else who’s doing the hard work of being able to provide you a place to live and meals to eat.
If you’re going to make this scenario your aim in life, you have to think through every single consequence that comes with your purpose.
That’s an impossible goal, by the way. No matter what purpose you choose. You’ll never be able to plan for every single real world element and consequence before you experience it. Your imagination isn’t that well-developed. No one’s is.
So who do you admire, past or present tense? Is it a real person or a fictional one?
I could go on a whole rant about how history is just gossip, really, at the end of the day. But I won’t. I’d rather you just focus on who inspires you and what they did/are doing with their time on God’s green, brown, and blue Earth.
Do you see a way, if you were to follow in his or her footsteps, how you could embody that purpose today?
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