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People

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We share this planet with 7 billion + other souls, other people. We are surrounded by others every day, well unless you live in Greenland or a remote island.

People are what makes life – the stories, the sharing of knowledge, the giving, the helping and all the things that connecting can bring. The creation of shared experiences. The creation of memories and legacies.

Yet we have managed to create a society where more and more people are lonely, where more and more people trudge like drones to and from the factory, helping to build the dreams of a tiny elite. We have become paralysed be fear of the demonised humans that we are taught to hate.

We have created distrust, judgement, fear and isolation.

We have allowed ourselves to become a disposable cog in the system and we have allowed the myth makers to make up the rules. We have allowed myth makers to isolate us from others.

The solution, reach out to others, break the habits, talk to strangers, talk to your neighbour, talk to someone on the train. Don’t allow others to disconnect us from people.

Move out from the masses in the centre of the circle to the edges where life happens and make connections. Don’t accept the society we are fed, the myths, the rules and become connected to others.

What we leave behind

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The key to life is to create memories that will last in the heads of those we leave behind at the end of our journeys.

People talk about legacies, and the legacy to leave is a great memory in the heads of all the people that we encounter in life.

During the journey, it is also important to create and leave great memories in our own heads too. None of us will reach the end of our journeys and reminisce about shit that we owned, we will look back on the activities we did with the people who mattered.

In order to create these we need to focus always on creating those opportunities, not on focusing our energies on working hard to earn money to buy a lifestyle.

What we leave behind in terms of possessions does not matter to those who get given them and certainly nothing to us. What will matter is what you leave in someone else’s head.

That requires clear communicating what we stand for, our values so that we surround ourselves with the right people, who will not judge and who will appreciate us for what we are. Then we have to think, do and say good things, we have to work to be ourselves and to make sure that we are kind and loving to ourselves.

That will enable us to be happy and happy people create good memories for themselves and leave great memories in the heads of the people they meet on the journey.