Everyone is on a path to find treasure. We set out on personal journeys to find a truth, object, or experience that we believe to exist. Why? For one simple reason: We become a witness to people who have received or found their treasure in the past and we make an imprint into our minds that if we embark on a journey to find our own, it will give us an acceptable purpose to live our lives.
But if purpose defines the means to the end, and the end being the state at which we formulate a discrete sense of gratification and jubilation from achieving imperfect solace, how is it that some people do not fully find the sunlight at the top of the horizon when their purpose is fully established? What separates the people who find their way from the people who drift off into the darkness, never to be seen again, with a life that was truly never lived to its full potential?
Hesitation. Commitment. Change. Failure. Loneliness. Anxiety. Sadness. Setbacks.
Confidence. Vision. Courage. Success. Laughter. Love. Happiness. Promise.
Different emotions manifest themselves into images that are transposed into reality. Like the eagle that spreads his wings on route to its plethora of peaks, we discover the essence of emotional intelligence. The way we speak, the way we understand, the way we feel, the way we live. If we can control the emotions that cause us to diverge from our optimal path by eliminating our weak habits and channeling the behaviours that provide us with energy and strength, it may give us the direction that we need to continue on the path towards our metaphorical sun. However, these emotions that we experience are only a small piece to the underlying abstraction we attempt to manipulate within ourselves.
Ourself: A complex system.
As we exist today, we are someone. We represent ideals and stand for causes that coincide with the fields of morals and values that have been organically grown from within. We live, we breathe, we grow; we search for higher meaning. We however, are human, and succumb to the wrath of complacency: the plateau that every being faces at the crossroads between contentment and purpose.
At this point of reasoning, a distant fallacy lingers. A choice can be made to accept our weaknesses and imperfections because governed is the thought that our higher power created us different, but equal. In case of question, some resort to their embodied truth that doing no better than they are capable of and becoming no wiser than their intellect can comprehend is acceptable. The trap of being in our current self looms as we reside comfortably within the environment that consumes us and the outcome that awaits us.
Consequently, if it is ourself who controls our own outcome, minus the higher powers that govern the environment in which we cease to exist, then it must be true that our current self must evolve to the self that it must become to reach its self hypothesized state of fulfillment. The closing of this gap, no matter how narrow or wide can allude the most nimble seekers on their journey. It is the complexity of the system and the process in which we make this transformation that prohibit or inhibit the change that is required. Like any environment, the system can work for us or against us and the process can grow the system or make it contract.
But however so complex, the system can be divided into three: mind, body and soul. And in digesting these three commonly misunderstood subsystems we come to an understanding that the inebriation of life demands the sobriety of the people that surround it. Alfred Tennyson explains this eloquently in a defining statement in his poem, Ulysses: “I am a part of all that I have met”. For the experiences that we encounter in people make us submit to worldly connections that create insurmountable bonds. Bonds that can stick together in any metaphysical and imaginable state.
And if it is our relationship with people that enable us to further explore the passive themes that define our existence and our sense of self, and if we decide to learn from the lasting lessons that have been bestowed upon us during the defining moments of our most testing times, then we must look to seek out these connections as necessary it is to receive water in drought. For a connection that is missing between a parched traveler and the water that bleeds from the gated river can determine the exploration of mental, physical, and spiritual boundaries to which one’s expansion can become limitless.
By the same token, any inclination or idea of sustaining our current self should spawn no light and be given no time of day as the self imposed bounds we create for ourselves serve as obstacles, rather than the rays of light we require to reach the treasure we all conspire to obtain.
Just like the eagle that maneuvers its emotions towards its course of serenity, so too can we use the positive emotions and the connections we establish through time to converge to our state of becoming. However, all of this comes from within. And as we travel the journey that we all pursue, to the sunlight that we all urge, we must be mindful of the one common truth that has been engraved into the horizon that leads to the treasure we all seek: being yourself is the half truth to the liberation of becoming yourself.
Be or Become.
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