escape

There are a thousand ways for me to escape the responsibilities of this life.  or perhaps it is by a factor of 10 or 100 or 1000.  The point is made. Not to end anything, for that would really annoy the folks who helped me to get here and set me back by quite a ways.  no - far more subtle.  It is doing things that are not true to my reason for being here - that is the escape. And the reason for being here:  now that changes with each person, so there is some divining needed. I spoke with a melancholic recently - and she said "I am an old soul; but I am not an advanced one."  I suspect she is advanced, considering the fantastic work she is doing to help break down barriers to those dealing with severe autism, but the point is that it is not she, nor anyone else to claim to be advanced, or not.  We are all working towards being one with God, and one of our biggest challenges (certainly mine) is to value and encourage development from everyone, in every situation, as they work through the issues they have chosen for this life - striving to develop, to move forward. I have written perhaps lightly of those who are newer to incarnation than others - but it is the same direction we all travel. 

so what about those responsibilities and how do we avoid them.  I could avoid them by being a reporter, a camera-operater in weddings, for parties for documentaries or for commercial television programming.  I could avoid my responsibilities by following doctrine closely, by taking advice without questioning, or by taking a job that remained constant year after year.  I could avoid my purpose in life by becoming an avid follower of Deepak Chopra, GI Gurdjieff, or a modern day saint. I could watch too much television, or drink too much booze, or overfill my wardrobe or buy that lovely Volkswagon bus or 10,000 other things that react instead of pursue. My purpose in life, working within the confines of an information and memory scrambler called dyslexia, is to gather and analyse cognitive and emotional information, learn to balance that with spontaneity and live a life that progresses my inherited values in a new age.  That means change is constant, my boundaries are always challenged and I struggle to find my own voice in the cocaphony that surrounds me. I balance appreciation of the sences with the fathoming of the depths. Empathise with the Russian Soul through the great works, followed by a trip to Botton village. For me to report what others do - not the point. To follow the great and the good, or the doctrine of Adam-Smith or any other great book, to repeat the same work day after day.  My soul would wither and die. And I speak only for me.

For everyone else, there are their own escapes and fulfillments.  They may overlap wtih mine, and I convince myself we are similar, but perhaps we are no more than distant cousins 5 times removed, simply in a similar place for a short time. Or they may not overlap at all and we could still be soul mates (or total strangers). For the Baptist preacher - is he in the right role? If it is my friend from Ghana - I suspect so. Was the Methodist minister from years past in the right role - for a while yes.  And then no. Perhaps our responsibilities have nowt to do with work....perhaps raising 5 children is essential to get the point we came for.  Or perhaps having no children is essential.  It's not for me (or you) to say; it is only for us to accept, support and encourage, nudging others toward the road less travelled.  For that will make the difference.