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Imagine

Posted on by philipdodson

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We are as humans all bestowed with the a gift – imagination.

This is a gift that we have truly taken for granted and lost the realisation of just how monumentally important it is to our very survival.

Yet the system strives hard to get us to suppress that gift, it scares the system, as if we were all to use it to it’s full potential, well we might just imagine a world without the people who control us. We might just imagine a world where we do not need a tiny few controlling and manipulating us.

If it was not for imagination, the human race would still be hunter/gatherers. We have dared to imagine so many things, yet here we are in the 21st century and so few of us now dare to imagine better, different, new.

Fear and conditioning (sounds like a bad shampoo) have paralysed us from using our imaginations. We have become so frightened of others judging us, so afraid of ridicule and so lacking in adventure. We live in fear of all the rules and regulations.

If the human race does not imagine, then the human race will die.

Don’t forget you are human

Posted on by philipdodson

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In life, when we are bombarded from all directions with advice, tips, recommendations, directives and instruction, it is easy to forget that we are all human. We are not precision engineered machines, that simply are programmed to do every single thing correctly.

In fact, even the best machines, or pieces of software, or automation, break down. Nothing is perfect, thankfully.

However, there is more pressure than ever to be faultless, to not say the wrong thing, to play safe to avoid mistakes.

We can also get drawn into the blame game and look for others to deflect blame onto, in order to protect ourselves.

It is important to recognise that others are only human too.

We will all have off days, we will all feel a little down at times, we will all have our challenges and that’s OK. In fact it is more than OK, it’s normal, we can choose not to allow the pressures or the criticism from others take that away. Equally, we need to be compassionate to others and use empathy, not criticism.

Be kind to yourself and others.