How do you feel when you make a mistake?
It is a trick question really considering that at the point you make a mistake it feels exactly like doing the right thing. It is only when you realise you have made a mistake that the feelings arise.
Sometimes the feeling is quite immediate like a slip with a knife while cutting vegetables but sometimes it is very delayed such as choosing the wrong career. It is of course possible to make a mistake and never know.
These may be the worst of them as we go about our life doing all kinds of harm or having our potential severely limited yet, never know. Ignorance is bliss?
What if we are in that stage now? A place where if we just recognised the folly of our ways we and all others could have a fundamentally better life experience, a life of plenty. Many people think that it is possible yet, how many are willing to admit that their own actions are part of the problem, that it is they who are mistaken?
This is the issue when it comes to solving the world's problems, they aren't the world's at all, they are ours. It is easy to find blame and scapegoats but it is very difficult to take a step back and check if it is actually us. The reason is of course that we feel right but, perhaps we just haven't discovered how wrong we are.
Pretty much every wise person on earth has said something along the lines of be the change and take responsibility but we do not take it to heart enough to actually be that change. I think what holds us back is fear of failure, fear that we might try and still not make a difference.
No wonder change takes time.
Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
Written on the phone.