The Richness Of Reality
Reality is full of richness and all that it takes to see it is to open my eyes.
My public journal where I share weekly reflections on how I’m unlearning.
Reality is full of richness and all that it takes to see it is to open my eyes.
There is a magical space where life feels effortless to me and where I feel most alive.
Life feels like walking a tightrope. While I want to get to the other side, I have no choice but to focus on taking one step at a time.
Each week has seven days in it, and none of them are called “someday”.
It is my own shadow that ironically gets in the way of me being able to see the fullness of my life at times.
In the face of The Unknown, we have options and get to choose how we show up.
The human condition is to want what others have, believing that it is better than what we have. It is to feel dissatisfied.
I feel lost in the current movement on racial equity. It has triggered a deeper reflection on the influence of culture on identity.
The richness of race, beyond my own, has continued to shape me in profound ways.
My empty spaces are filled with information, possibly the most valuable information and definitely the most relevant information that I have.
The company that we keep, the content that we consume, the contemplations that we explore, all shape our values.
In the pursuit of individual independence, we have run away from one another, and perhaps even run away from ourselves.
A fourth crisis is beginning to emerge, a result of the cumulative intensity from the health, economic and social crises.
Just when we thought Facebook might have been turning a corner, it is clear now that this is one dog that does not want to learn new tricks.
What I have learned about myself after 100 days in lockdown
I have been one of the lucky few, who somehow slipped through the cracks of a society and a system designed to discriminate against so many.
Like the Coronavirus, discrimination is a villain that continues to infect all of us.
There is a difference between working a lot and being productive. We may be working a lot, that does not mean that we are productive though.
The many social inequalities that we are witnessing are but symptoms of a different issue.
Over 500 hours on Zoom calls in the past 10 weeks have taught me how to be both productive and present.
Each moment is an unconscious expression of who I am.
The state of lockdown that we are in would have been completely unimaginable and absurd to talk about, even 100 days ago.
Evidence of our evolution from ‘More Is More’ to ‘Less Is More’ is in every direction I look, outwards and inwards.
This is a stressful time and I had previously made balance conditional on the issues facing our world be resolved.