I have no idea

What’s something most people don’t understand?

I’ve got to the age where I know it’s a mistake to think you understand this world or ever will.

That may surprise younger people, that I’m mid 60s and not completely inflexible, with the firm belief that I’m the authority on everything that matters and everything that doesn’t. That’s kind of the attitude towards ageing.

Don’t understand how the world works, only the inexperienced do. Stuck in their ways. Won’t move with the times. An anachronism in a modern world.

That’s far from the truth.

Firstly it still is our time, just our mature time. Secondly most older people do have firm beliefs honed over decades of life and observation, but that doesn’t make them wrong or stupid. Although sometimes we are.

Lastly, the young can be very certain they’re right and we’re very careful to smile quietly as they walk away. Why tell them? They will learn as we did. Over time. Through living. Through their own personal experience.

Personal experience is what shapes us all, and we shouldn’t mistake it for collective experience or a universal truth. The universal truth is love.

Spirituality

Two out of three people I’ve met have a story that they can’t explain where they know they’ve been helped. It usually starts “I’m not a medium or anything but…”

Spiritual living has taught me a great deal. Not just that spirit know a mind blowing amount, or that Source (God) can actually perform miracles, I’ve been the recipient. Mighty as the occasional medium or psychic may feel, at least 2/3 of the general public are well aware of the things we know.

Between connection to spirit, being helped by Source, and talking to the public, there is even less room for being a know all.

It may surprise people to know that the vast majority of people in the spiritual field are extremely humble, and focused on helping. No matter what the sceptics say. They’re also extremely funny.

All in all I wouldn’t dream of declaring one thing that most people don’t understand. Particularly as I don’t understand a lot. Especially violence and killing.

Why would anyone start a war?

Perhaps there is one thing…

Unless you’re an expert in something scientific, like Quantum Physics, and those guys do know a tremendous amount that we don’t understand, one thing too many people don’t understand is that you can’t understand others from your own viewpoint.

You can use your life experience to empathise, to try to understand, but you can’t know.

You can think that all people of one colour think this about another colour, but you will be wrong. We’re all too unique for that.

You can believe that one religion hates yours, but again you will be wrong. I obviously don’t count terrorism as part of a religion.

‘Obviously’ turned into ‘ungodly’ there, for once a typo where the phone got it right.

You can believe that your religion is best simply because it’s your religion, but that will depend how you and others express that religion through your words and actions. Also, you will be wrong.

You can believe that one political party or leader will change your life, and do everything you expect them to do for you, but if you need me to tell you that’s wrong…

But as my husband said – dreams are free!

You can decide that so called privileged people have a far easier life. Money might make the hard things easier, the available help better, but it can never be spent to buy back a parent, a child, a beloved pet.

However, the biggest mistake of all is thinking that what other people do in their lives has to have an impact on you. The rich don’t make you poor, you choose how to live your life. If you have a parent telling you that a mythical someone or someones somewhere will hold you back all your life. They’re wrong. Only you can do that.

I speak as a person who has held themself back. Yes as a result of my childhood and past, as a result of thinking that should never have been mine, but I still lived those beliefs that were not mine. Because I’ve was always told I was wrong I accepted that wholesale.

The crux?

Many people don’t question enough.

Deb xx