What happens to us over time?

What happens to us over time?

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The answer is many things, so I can only tell my story.

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50 tours around the sun on the spaceship planet earth has led me to this!

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I started off as a child to economic emigrants who were in search of better life but then when a family came the programming was in place to want to return home. Like every child I adapted without choice to the changing environments changing and I don’t really remember how I felt about any of it. I know both of my parents had different opinions, one wanted to stay in the ‘land of opportunity’ and one wanted to ‘return home’ so there was split energy for sure.

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We had what many would consider a ‘normal’ life or work for adults and school for children along with a brother to join me on the journey! It was pre anything mobile or anything on the net. We met each other in person, chat a lot, we made appointments and turned up even if those appointments were days or weeks out. We learned to trust each other in a very physical domain. Life was very local in its scope and information was very limited. A 1974 Edition of the British Britannica Encyclopaedia in static print was a privilege to maintain in our household as a source of knowledge.

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Growing up in Ireland, there were not too many outside influences. Radio, Television and Newspapers were the remote forms of information and closer at hand there were immigrants, but they were quite limited. A few Chinese people made great food and then began an influence of mostly European students staying to learn English and importing ideas like behaviours of what to eat when and new drinks and foods like coffee, prawns, paella, chorizo and many more.

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These portals into the unknown worlds began opening and we stepped through. And once you go once, you can never be the same again.

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We were also innocent of the system and the world mechanics that moved the financial world that we are fit within, but it had a huge impact on our lives. The soundness of currencies was shifting from hard to easy. We were also naive of the geopolitical games played by countries through the media to influence the future of the perceived economic empires through their invested interests leveraging debt, inflation, and taxation to drive forward their desires. We were also unaware of the laws whether they be of the land or the sea and how we are a set of nations or states and the hierarchies that we play a role in without knowing. And then on group levels, we were surrounded by ideologies and a growing consumeristic narcissistic culture placing the locus of control of most humans external to themselves.

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The world was wonderful in our eyes and yet these ‘shadow’ forces were growing and aggregating.

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At different times, we unveil layers of understanding of our environment, and I was hurt and disappointed to become aware of the previously background forces. And it was other people that made me aware of these forces like the layers of an onion starting with narcissism. That topic opened the can of worms.

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And the other side of that coin, was my introduction to self-trust and awareness as the powerful forces for good! These forces are internal and can be built up by ourselves to change our outlook for a future of hope and abundance to both defend against the shadow forces and shine light on them to eradicate their influence within our lives.

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Love is still the power that plays the most important game in our lives through its presence or its lack!

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A friend asked me today to describe my goals to describe myself, here was my answer!

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‘Firstly, I probably do not wish to define myself. I struggle with even words as boxes to capture meanings, so it feels an absurdity to even attempt define a person, at least myself, in any way of that nature.

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I do strive to become more aware, and it can often be painful to my ego, my emotions, and my models of the world. My models of the world used to get crushed and now they tend to expand and contract with cracks and stretch marks on a regular basis.

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I also strive to trust myself more by more often holding my word as a north pole of my action once I have given it. When I do follow through on that, I feel like I am expanding with the trust that I place in myself and it lends me to reach for massively bigger goals.

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I also like to connect with people who are bent on a better future. Peter Diamandis might be an example and his ideas on the Exponential Man! People with hopeful and expanded futures are attractive to me and I hope to emulate their energy. Books are my friends and those that expand elements of hope in my future get my full focus and attention. Books that empower me to change myself in ways that might have a positive contagion effect become almost like best friends. And environments that are new that require me to reinvent myself and environments that are supportive cultivate parts of me that I was unaware that were unattended!

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Finally, avoiding unhealthy people, attitudes, information, environments and developing better healthy boundaries for interaction with myself and others to be a continuous area of focus.

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I am not sure that I can squash the ineffable into the number '50' and the word 'life' and hope that my phrases above indicate my intention.

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It is my pleasure to live this life and experience it to the best of my ability, to learn to love more and in many ways they I did not even comprehend as I joined this world! Thank you for being part of my life!

#lifebeginsatfifty #thankyou