individuality

“The discovery that the experiencer is the experience, is meditation.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Two people can be sitting next to each other in the same room of a hundred people, watching a sports game & may experience completely different things.

They are in the same environment. Surrounded by the same people.

Watching the same game.

Yet they have a different experience than the people around them.

Same thing if you’re watching a play, or reading a meditation book, listening to music, or walking in nature.

You may hear & read & see the same exact things that others are hearing, reading, & seeing, yet you have your own interpretations of the experience.

It’s good to have your own interpretation.

All children are living from their individual perspective until they reach a certain age & the world sort of takes away their individuality & tells the person what to think, how to feel, and how to interpret things…

So as we age we sort of lose ourselves as we conform to our surroundings, but what if we didn’t?

What if we kept our individuality?

What if we understood the power of conformity, & then we understood the power of our individual self?

What if we stepped away from the crowds, & decided what we actually thought about things?

Your perception is your reality.

And how we feel about it?

Do not disempower yourself by adopting other people’s perspective.

You are it!

“Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity minded.”

— Stephen Covey

Do you look for problems?

Or do you look for opportunities?

Seek and you shall find – if you’re looking for problems you will find them.

And if you look for opportunities, you’ll also find them.

But let’s look at the problem seeking for a moment…

It is so easy to find problems if you look for them – & it seems like the older people get the more they look for problems (especially problems about other people).

This is true for me at least – not me looking for faults in people, but realizing that people were looking for faults in me & my life.

I never wasted my time or energy thinking about what’s wrong with someone – but I found out that people do that all the time.

Some or many people are actively seeking scapegoats. Seeking someone to blame or find fault with.

And I didn’t know that people were doing that until I ran into a brick wall of people’s opinions about me & my eccentric ways, as I prepared for fame.

All of a sudden I went from opportunity & joy minded to problem minded. I went from living in peace to living in fear, and I began seeing problems with everyone & everything – which I wasn’t looking at before.

I lost my energy and my mind in looking outside of myself, towards potential problems, and I’ve been working hard to get my mind back with myself since then. It’s been 3 years.

I’m re-learning to lead my life & be true to myself.

I’m re-learning to NOT be like the problem-seeking people.

And I’m learning to NOT take on the fearful projections of the problem-seekers.

I’m re-learning a lot.

And I’m embracing MY perspective and MY beliefs.

And not worrying if people see a problem with me having my own perspective – because they will.

But some will love it too, and to those fans I say thank you.

YOU ARE IT!

Look For Opportunities, NOT For Problems