Understanding is hard to come by, even when it comes to understanding yourself.
I recently recognized that I look for no’s far more often than I look for yes’. I succumbed to my ego, probing for anyway to use confirmation bias. I led myself down a path of anguish, often putting my thoughts on other people’s actions.I got lost in how the world worked around me, and didn’t see how I could work the world.
This isn’t to say that there were no walls built-in order to impede my progress. There are several systematic ideas and several different reasons why those feelings existed. A young black man in the united states is constantly facing his mortality in a system that has proven time and time again that it feels that his life is less meaningful, also a corporate structure where his ideas lightly. He comes from a community where those ideals come from schooling he receives, and further driven home by his parents,unknowingly keeping their children locked in the same mental spaces in which this idea of being less than exists.
These two things, these two ideas, can coexist. One must reckon with both to understand his full existence in this world. Perhaps as a reader, you aren’t a black male, but come from something else. The other gender, as well as the other races and ethnic backgrounds that lie within those races have different rules, come from different thoughts, and have different histories. Each person reading this has their own crosses to bear, and I understand that the pain from each is on the person who experiences them. If I ‘m and you’re stabbed, I cannot tell you are not hurt.
The only way we can help each other is to understand that we all have faults, and we all come from different places. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy. Try not to let one bad moment ruin your perception, because we all go through places of personal pain and horrid group think to come to where we are. We can all help each other become better.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 