
When the Alarm Goes Off
How often do you lie in your day to day life? At home, at work, in a social gathering. Talking to family and friends and colleagues. How often do you falsify the raw truth of your existence and smother that fire for fear of what it may illuminate around you, near you, inside you? If your routine is anything like mine was till a few years back, the answer is “nearly always.”
And why do we lie that often? Because we are entangled in a web of dysfunctional relationships, to which we bring our fair share of dysfunction. That is the best answer I have found thus far. Dysfunctional relationships are often based on genetic and geographic proximity rather than the qualities that make a life truly worth living—and a relationship worth having: Honesty, openness, courage, and integrity.
If that is the case, how do we move from a daily reenactment of our pathologies to a different mode of being, one that sparks a deep sense of meaning and fulfillment in us and the people around us? How do we jump out bed in the morning because we can’t wait to see what the new day will bring, rather than hit that snooze button one more time because we can’t bear the though of yet another 24 hour cycle?
I have found the best road-map to answer these questions here: https://www.freedomain.com/2019/07/18/real-time-relationships-the-logic-of-love/.