invisible cage

a long time ago in my first year of university, the professor began his lecture with this:

“don’t believe what I teach you just because I said it.

question it, go research it, ponder it, find whatever you need to understand and make it your own truth.

because when we stop doing that, then we have turned into robots.”

I remember that moment.

I remember being a robot.

I remember becoming aware of what I believed.

then I questioned where some of these beliefs came from.

where did this programming come from?

because I didn’t install it?

so who did?

so who did…

I don’t know and this really bothered me.

my own questioning was met with internal resistance.

as I faced my own conditioning.

and the resistance is severe.

ever hear the statement “old habits die hard”?

yeah.

many of us never get to the point where they get to kill a habit.

it is that hard.

it’s that hard…

it really is!

I had to find a way to get past my own firewall!

this is the hardest part.

literally finding ways to hack myself in order to see what’s going on within.

but the conditioning is so strong.

as we have a lifetime to endure it.

all that time for us to build the invisible cage we find ourselves “living” in.

I do have one thing working in my favour.

one thing that the conditioning can’t stop.

because I was born with it.

Curiosity.

and I want to be free.

/#chasingbutterflies