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Title: To Experiment Author: Peter GM Wright Date: 16 February 2022 Language: en Topics: Personal growth, revolution, experimental Source: Original work
To Experiment is to reteach yourself to yourself. To experiment is to
learn your true boundaries. To experiment is to change your world and
vis a Ve, the world. You can turn your life into an active recreation of
yourself. You can make beautiful what is broken, you can expunge what is
outdated and you can create a new you that is free from your
conditioning, free from your fear and free from the joyless comfort zone
that has your soul gasping for air.
To do this, to want to change yourself, is to somehow believe that at
your core you are a wild revolutionary that drips diamonds from her
thighs and spouts liquid gold his magic place. Okay, that's a bit
abstract, what I mean is "You know there is more to your life than a
joyless existence dominated by fear and a comfort zone".
To want to change yourself is the beginning of the revolution we all
wish to see. Because to truly change the world one has to change
themselves first. That is a path of an anarchist but it is also a simple
human path that is natural and comes quite easily to us all. They say
curiosity killed the cat, indeed you can die from experimentation, but
the goal is that the old you dies giving way to a new you.
If indeed you have had enough and want out, congratulations, that is
honesty and that is truth, which in essence is simple to understand,
it's valid and a worthy goal. Especially in a world that drags you into
small boxes of simple satisfactions that leave is empty and are anti
growth.
The first step in choosing the path of growth will be to choose to
include experimentation into your life. This may sound a bit wild, but
for an individual who has grown accustome to regularity and instant
gratification experimentation is the only way through.
To each of us experimentation will look entirely different. The great
thing about experimentation is that it is actually very healthy. If
you've gotten yourself into alcohol then sobriety is a terrifying and
wild ride, if you've found that controlling your partner creates a sense
of security I promise you your relationship will blossom when you
actively experiment with allowing others to be. Experience comes through
the act of experimentation, so too do honest and solid boundaries. Do
you like anal sex? Well now you know!
Change also takes discipline and the experimental path requires that you
allow yourself to choose options and actions that go against who you
believe you are. It's a revolutionary path that asks of you one thing,
let go and follow.
To allow yourself to be foolish for the image obsessed is a
breakthrough, or to allow yourself to be taken seriously for the sloppy
dressed is an act of rebellion. With every act of experimentation you
will learn something new about yourself and that will create space
within for the authentic you to begin to grow.
The way we now understand that for children to grow into healthy
balanced individuals they must be allowed to play, allowed to fall,
given opportunities to struggle. So too we must apply our knowledge to
ourselves. Adults are just boring children who forgot that the game
stuck in the mud is a metaphor: I herby crawl through your legs and
release you!
If you think you are perhaps too old or stuck in your ways to explore
then I ask you to look at your nearest rock. That rock is older than
your entire family put together. But unlike that rock you are not
destined to erode, you can grow and become.
So take that rock and put it on your windowsill. Use it as a reminder
that you are alive and that indeed your future is as open and amazing as
your wildest dreams. Whatever it is that you usually do after reading a
short article, go and do the exact opposite. Well done! You have
authentically chosen you, you have committed a revolutionary act,
perhaps for the first time in ages.
Peace and I love you.