The Power of Not Giving A Damn

So much to unpack in this statement. No, I don’t know if Freeman actually said it, but it has a LOT to offer, so I don’t care.

Why do we care so much what other people think about us? Understand this and you begin to take control. I sincerely wish you to consider the following model of how it works.

We are born helpless, and ego-less. Pure sensation, joy and fear and passion for life all mingled in the first cry of awakening. No. Let’s turn that around. White light isn’t the mingled colors of blue and yellow and red. It is the origin of those colors. In the same way, primal emotion isn’t a mingling of other emotions, but the origin of them. Pure ALIVENESS. But we have needs. If we are not protected, not fed, not held and loved…WE DIE. Every one of you, no matter what your conscious memories might be, were nurtured as an infant…or you would be dead.

Consider that.

Now…we have the innate understanding that without the approval and love of those who protect us, we die. DIE. So we evolved cuteness, and burbling, and smiling and happy love-face in a feedback loop with our parents’ hind brains…unless you want to look at it as a spiritual reality, in which case our joy and the joy of our parents and families all intermingle to create something greater than the whole. Look at it however you want: survival, emotions, or spirit. But understand that it isn’t about understanding. Those circuits aren’t about intellect. Infinitely deeper than that surface crap.