In a world of constant turmoil where your patience has long run out and you find that your limited finances are sadly dwindling in solidarity with your patience—while increasing chaos and mind-numbing media cacophony scatter your remaining wits, with friends and loved ones backing away from your personal crisis situation in self-preservation—there comes a gradual inner realization that the only thing or person you have left to believe in or to rely on, is yourself.
During this tumultuous time of constant challenges, as difficult and inopportune as this ‘I’m cast-off-alone on an island’ discovery may seem to be, THAT is the very time when you finally comprehend how the only person you can ever truly rely on to have YOUR best interests at heart, is YOU. It may be devastating to you emotionally, or socially disheartening at the least, that this ‘you’re on your own’ discovery has to come about in such a severe slap-down manner, but it often does.
I know it may sound cynical and hypercritical of those closest to you—with both your family and friends considered in that stinging condemnation of desertion, but the fact is that this is YOUR life experience to live; and whatever decisions you make and/or repercussions that befall you arising from those decisions will fall primarily on YOU alone.
And those repercussions are meant to do so because this is YOUR learning situation and whatever life choices are to be made must be made by YOU, not someone else. That’s why you are here in this plane of existence—to raise your own consciousness—to increase your own awareness of all aspects of the human experience, from lesser learning endeavors to greater. Difficult experiences teach you to trust in your own judgment more. They help you learn how to believe in yourself even when others stop believing in you.
Just keep in mind that your actual decisions and actions whether later proven right or wrong, are YOUR responsibility alone here. And that’s what they are meant to be. You can’t push blame or judgment for your words or behavior on anyone else if things go wrong because this is YOUR show. YOU run it.
So in truth, YOU alone must focus on how best to meet whatever latest challenge is presenting at any given moment; and you must be completely honest with yourself while doing so. Self-awareness is our perpetual goal while in earth-plane; but self-awareness doesn’t mean self-focus because we aren’t in this human exploration by ourselves. Self and OTHERS are perpetually twirling a slow waltz across the life-experience dance floor.
While the decisions you make are yours alone—and likewise the responsibility for having made them, the fallout from those decisions can affect others besides you in unexpected ways, but that’s why this on-your-own ‘cast-away living’ is so clarifying for you. With the elimination of those once-trusted voices yammering in your ear, distractions have been removed allowing the bare-bones choices to be more easily seen by you, while also allowing for the ‘other’ people in your life to be more fully vetted for reliability in the process.
Anyway, I thought the image above and sentiment expressed within it are indicative of that harshly clarifying moment we often have with those we once relied on for guidance—whether friends or family. You don’t need tainted BS from others to make your most important life decisions. You only need total truth, which is often found only within yourself—BY YOURSELF. Learn to believe in yourself for those important life decisions. You are the most reliable, ever-constant friend you will ever have. If you haven’t realized that fact yet, you will. Believe in YOU and your own natural resilience to survive any challenge.
“Sometimes self care comes down to setting the whole damn thing on fire and watching all the bullshit burn.” (jennifergardenpoetry)
FINDING YOUR TRUTH 