We are Social Animals
Connecting to others makes our journey path that much easier
It seems obvious that a person with a sense of purpose and a mission to fulfill would need to have a specialized language as well. I decided that a good place to begin would be to distinguish things that happened to me, which I will call obstacles, from those things I had obviously chosen to create — which I will “problem.”
I made the definition even more specific. I created the ground rule for my new life game that a “problem” is the direct result of limited and ordinary thinking, whereas an “obstacle” was a “real” situation or circumstance that needed to be overcome or transcended.
Using the concept of a formal science*, I began to refine what made something of an obstacle. I defined it in this way:
“…an obstacle is some person or circumstance that seems unrelated to anything I have consciously done and which reduces my effectiveness, limits my freedom, brings me some level of discomfort, and keeps me from getting what I want or need irrespective of my attitude about it.”
After exploring all this, I soon understood that it is extremely difficult to solve a problem if you do not know the specialized language associated with that problem. Often the obstacle is not the challenge; it the language needed to access the solution that is the obstacle. Before one can create or access this language, one must have a basic understanding of systems and how they work.
People require community and fellowship.
Yet we are also hierarchal, competitive, and altruistic in nature. These facts define how any of us is going to make decisions. Integrating these human qualities requires community.
The longing for community is associated with a felt need for the richness of deep, complex, and evolving relationships through extended networks social, as well as through business and familial relationships.
There is an ever-growing desire for community, especially because of the increasing alienation in society. This alienation is partly because of the replacement during the 20th century of the extended family by the often unrealistic demands and commonly dysfunctional realities of the nuclear family. Part of what Facebook and other social networking sites have offered us is ways to create a sense of community without the risks and benefits of intimacy.
The Takeaway
We have entered a new age driven by multiculturalism, globalization, and the slow and inconsistent but continuous tribal merging of interfaith, international, interracial, and interreligious marriages and friendships.
Author: Lewis Harrison is a creative writer and psychonaut. An Independent Scholar and a Results-Oriented Success Coach, He has a passion for knowledge, personal development, applied game theory, self-improvement, creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and story-telling. He is a practitioner of Transmoderm Zen. You can read all of his Medium stories at [email protected].
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When I feel low, it is a sense of community that raises me up…
I am part of a Zen fellowship. I teach about Zen, problem-solving, and creative thinking. This is where I get many of my ideas. Below is a simple Medium story about Zen
