Becoming someone

From an early age, your environment shapes you. Moulds you into something, someone. From parents to school, to the workplace. The insistence is that somehow there is a need to be someone. The implication is that you need to become someone other than who you are.

Organised religion is no different. Organised religion is based on the premise that you are in some way not as you should be. That you need to become someone.

The framing is then reinforced and sanctioned repeatedly in almost every environment you find yourself in.

In every environment apart from the one that matters. The interior one.

The interior one is untouched, unformed, unfounded and pure. It’s who you really are. It doesn’t need to be improved or altered.

The basic, fundamental sense of aliveness always knows what it wants. The divine duty isn’t some pseudo-spiritual claptrap. It’s referred to as a calling for a reason.

External voices may seek to dilute or drown that out, but they can’t. Precisely because it’s so fundamental, it’s loud in its silence. And it will always seek to make itself known.

The real question is whether you will choose to force it into silence.