I think this need to appear as all powerful in the eyes of others is a doomsday project.. TBH! And exactly what level of fear and insecurity and self doubt is it coming out of? I just love the fact of egoic people being humbled.. It’s so hard to see those who are suffering due to the puffed up egos of others lathering in so much shame its hard for them to rise.
Last night I read the most heartbreaking post about a young girl who is being relentlessly (and may I say demonically) bullied at school. Lucky her grandmother found out about it as the young girl didn’t want to bring that kind of trouble home.. This loving innocent girl was more worried about others than her own heart. This just makes me so sad (and dumbfounded to be honest!), it calls to mind my sister attempting on her life after her husband abandoned her in that dark room while saying she did not want my mother and father’s happiness to be affected by her pain.
This kind of thing needs to change.. It makes me question what kind of intervention we need in schools so that kids know its important and safe to open up, that they will be heard, seen and believed.. but it also made me question why we feel we need to hide so called ‘weakness’ or why we judge ourselves as ‘ugly’ when we are naturally beautiful, why we make so many gross interventions that only make us seem more ugly and put money in the pockets of those invested in a cult of narcissism… Its a sad situation and its one that needs to be called out..
For me, I no longer want to be ‘great’ or ‘the best’ at anything, to be honest I’d just rather be a grateful member of the normal human ‘race’!
It is very necessary that a man should be appraised early in life that it is a masquerade in which he finds himself. For otherwise there are many things which he will fail to understand.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Emerging From The Dark Night 