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The Most Important Education

We are sleep walking through our lives.

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The Most Important Education

Knowledge is power.

We learn in school about the basics. Math, science, language arts, history, and foreign language- among other topics.

We are pressured to find out what we want to pursue for the rest of our lives at seventeen or eighteen.

We are under the influence that if we don't make X amount of money, we aren't worthy of having a happy or meaningful life.

We have been brainwashed to believe that there is only one way to be successful.

This is an article about the important things we avoid or are never told about.

To learn. To dive deep within.This is about us, you, me, the population, the human race.

This is about how we spend thousands of dollars on information and knowledge about hundreds of topics, but what we lack is taking the time to learn about ourselves.

How much do you know about you? How much are you willing to know?How deep are you willing to go? These are important questions that we must sometimes ask ourselves. The relationship that we hold with ourselves is the foundation of all the relationships we will encounter in life. Ever changing, ever growing, continuously evolving.

How afraid are we of stepping into the depths of the unknown?

Important questions to ask:

Do you know what you are ready for? Do you know what you're not?

Do you know what your love looks like? Do you know what your anger looks like?

Who are you when you are afraid?

Do you know how to be alone, really alone?

Sit with yourself. Hold yourself. Comfort yourself. Love yourself. Then give to others.

We are simply ignorant to the obligation to learn about our own self.

We confide behind walls that we build around ourselves as a form of protection, or so we think.

We do this everyday, out of habit. Disregarding our actions because when we are not aware of why we are doing what we are doing, we are sleep walking through our lives.

Numb.

There is a place within each of us that we intend to fill. We are born this way and throughout our lives there is a myriad of things that we turn to in order to fill this space.

Sometimes it is material goods. We consume and buy so much, but we still feel empty. Sometimes it is love from others. We date and maybe our relationships fail because we do not feel complete without another person.

Sometimes we fill ourselves with food, or drugs, or sex, or money, or any other possible thing besides giving ourself the time to heal, understand, find compassion, open our hearts and become a student of life.

The process of comprehending that we are enough.

Maybe the most fundamental lesson we will ever learn in our lives, is to allow vulnerability to become a part of who we are. Instead of running every time we feel earth shattering sadness, or leg shaking fear, we sit within it, and listen.

We move into this fire willingly, courageous, and ready.

Our knowledge can be stretched so much further than just the basics we are handed in every day society. Past the walls and barriers that are put up, past the superficial layers of "who we are supposed to be".

We will learn who we are.

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