...about getting to know yourself

I spent an hour writing a blog about my views on the pandemic, and even as I was writing, I knew I would not publish it.  I looked at the words and asked, “what am I really trying to say” - the message that came through was:  Question EVERYTHING.

Question your motives and your perceptions; question your beliefs and your values; question the rules - and then question why you are following them or why you are breaking them; question your memories and the messages that you were given as a child; question what you are reading, watching, and listening to; question your feelings and your moods; question your traditions and your religious beliefs; question your thoughts and where and who they are coming from. 

​Yes, it is uncomfortable and scary to do this, it may create distance between you and others, it may be a free-falling kind of experience where there is nothing to hold on to, but it means everything to peel away the cultural and familial layers that, unbeknownst to us, influence every aspect of our lives.  Be brave, try to understand what makes you tick, choose your responses rather than allowing them to occur unconsciously.  And question everything.