so now I'm here. I specifically left this part of my plan open - planning for the unplanned to happen. and here it has begun. it's begun with my purpose.
so, what is my purpose? It's time for a new one.
It's also an opportunity to to review and project:
- What did it used to be that I thought I was here for? (What were my goals?)
- What will it be that the future heather will think she is here for? (What will the Heather to be goals be?)
It just occured to me that my current purpose is to clean out my own programming. My social, personality, society, chemical algorithms.
We don't even realize how programmed we are. I was looking through a book from the bookshelf this morning. It was about Native Americans from 1956. There were diaramas of "traditional" indian life. Mock ups from various museums. My favorite one was the indian nuclear family. The model of family life. It shows a woman tending a bowl in the fire, the man sitting on the bed carving and a baby hanging in a cradleboard. I really question this as a scene from indian life. What this photograph shows is the 1950 family model applied to another culture.
Did you catch that? That 1950's cultural programming of the nuclear family just hiding there in the museum display and the books you read as a child?
That's what I'm talking about. Noticing that programming. Being aware that it is there. Not that you can really do anything to change your programming - but you can be aware of it. And in that moment of awareness you have a choice - a choice to follow the programming or do something different. And really, like Gandhi said, it doesn't really matter what you do, but it is VERY important that you do it.
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