Question Everything! My Response to the Bi-weekly @TribeSteemUp Question
Today’s question comes from @TribeSteemUp:
If You Could Teach/Show Everyone In The World One Thing, (Something That Has A Huge Impact On Humanity)What Would It Be?
If I Could Teach the World One Thing...
If I could teach everyone in the world one thing that would have a significant impact on humanity, it would be to question everything you think you know.
Society expects us to do many things like getting married, have children, work at 9 to 5 till retirement and spend a few years (if you are lucky) doing the things you dreamed of, but are now too old to enjoy fully.
When you start to question yourself...
You see you have a choice. You can be who or whatever you want to be. It doesn’t matter what others think, or if it is not what is ‘normal’.
What matters that you live your life on your terms. I’d say not to hurt anyone, but some parents have a particular disappointed face or tone if you go against the norm, or friends frown at your quirkiness or eccentricity.
Life is really is about you, being happy in what you do.
I spent too long in a relationship where I was miserable, but it was comfortable, and I had got used to life like that. But when I saw the impact it was having on my children, I had to rethink it and found the strength to end it.
But those are wasted years in a way, I can’t get them back, but I can make the most of now.
Perhaps, the reason for going through that was to be able to help people in the same situation gather the strength they need to make that hard decision, or ask themselves some difficult questions or suggest avenues to try to improve the situation if that is possible.
When you start to question media…
You start to see that the world is not as it is portrayed by the media would have you believe.
There are two sides to every story. Even multiple witnesses of the same event will tell the same story in totally different ways because we each have a different perspective.
But in terms of media, it is put in a specific way to frighten us, to invoke anger, even hatred or give us goals that are impossible to attain or keep forever - like the beauty industry for example.
When you see the news (which I personally avoid like the plague as it instantly zaps me of happiness and energy as it is also possibly designed to do), remember to search for alternative views and think about the face of it, what is the deeper meaning, what are they trying to hide.
Often a major piece of news hides something important that is going on somewhere, and it is a decoy to what is really going on.
When you start to question rules…
You realise that a lot of the laws and rules we live by benefit the few, they are not designed for us to be free, but to restrict our choices.
I struggle with sending my children to school. I know by sending them there their little brains are being taught a certain way and that they run the risk of being brainwashed into thinking there is only one way. Somewhere along the line they stop questioning and are moulded into little society soldiers.
Unfortunately, at the moment I am not able to offer them home-schooling, one reason being particularly selfish that I would not want them here 24/7 with me as it would drive me absolutely nuts and the other is financial, at the moment I need my day hours to work and earn my living online.
More examples?
One word…
Banks.
Thank goodness for cryptocurrency, I really do hope it is part of the future in that way.
When you start to question religion…
You see that religion is a means to control the world for many thousands of years - it causes wars and us to act in specific ‘moral’ ways, not stand up for ourselves, turn the other cheek and is full contradictions and stories borrowed from each other and ancient sources.
It really has been a clever construct to control the nations as faith in something is fundamental to humans.
People think that their religion is 'right' and the rest of the world is wrong, even if they don't verbalise it, you know they are thinking about it.
In my humble opinion, Mother Nature has all the nurture we need. It whispers through the trees, in the birds' songs and ripples through the wave.
Of course, they are things like where the bunnies and eggs come from at Easter, which leads into other questions like the crucifixion. That wasn’t actually a question I asked myself, but this post: What came first, the egg or the bunny? : Origin of Easter Symbols (It wasn’t Ishtar!) by @alchemage really got me thinking and provided the inspiration for this post today. :))
Of course, there are many other things to question, but that is where I end this post today.
What questions have you had surprising answers to?
yes yes yes, we need to question everything, that is one of the things I have taught my girls always question everything and listen to your self, take responsibility for your own happiness and well being. Great answer xx
My daughter gives me many questions that I can't answer, actually her questions is represent my questions too 😊
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Yes, my daughter actually reminds to ask questions too as some I have to really think about as well.
I try so hard to teach mine this too, but the art of letting go is proving quite tricky hehe
Oh I REALLY like this answer, @hopehuggs! The fine art of questioning sometimes appears to be a dying art. And never before in the history of humanity have we had more information - it DEMANDS more questions! Nice post - great answer.
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I suppose as we get taught acceptance it goes beyond what it should. Kindness to others and questioning the state of the world are two separate things.
Such a great response, Hope!! This advice has taken me far in my life... off the beaten trail but hopefully one filled with more gritty truth 💓
I like the sound of off the beaten trail - one day. Maybe I will have that barge I dreamed of as a child, or a gipsy caravan pulled by a shire horse hehe