Hello friends,
hope all is well today.
Many people are feeling like it doesn’t matter anymore, whether it’s midweek, midday or the weekend. Lockdown is taking a toll on many; people are feeling cooped up and bored.
As the lockdown rules tighten down and the world will slowly be leaving their “boxes” everyone on this planet is and has been affected in some way. However small or big the awakening was, I hope we all are going to do what came up for us better. I hope we will show up better for ourselves and each other.
Yesterday I’ve written this article https://tdenchpatel.com/why-the-new-world-will-have-no-space-for-old-ways/. When I noted this topic down, I was going to talk about some specific angles but when I got onto the page to write I just let what was coming through pour out. When I re-read the article, I realised it wasn’t over and that the main point of why I wanted to write the article wasn’t even in the article.
I realised the article was unfinished and there are a lot more points to be made. Please take some time to read the first article on the link above so that you can follow this one. This article is going to focus on people and that value in people is going to be the determining factor in the new world we’re entering.
In the article in the link above, I mention that people can no longer be put under classifications, boxes, and I talk about how in the last twenty or more years a child in some part of India can be adopted in pretty much any part of the world. When that child grows up, (by the way there are already a lot of them who are working right now) sits down for a job interview, or whatever the reason is that they’re sitting in front of you, are you going to ask that young adult is your parents White, Indian, Black, Coloured? Where were they born? It’s stupid, you haven’t asked them that in the past, so you won’t dare to ask them that today. That is why most people go by assumptions. To expand on this topic, with the free movement we’ve had up to now there are now more than ever more mix raced citizens in this world. If you’re not mixed-raced be prepared for the level of knowledge people hold now because of access they’ve had and have up to now through travelling, internet, jobs that never existed in the past.
Let’s think about this for a second. Today you’ve got yoga teachers, meditation experts of all races, in all parts of the world and once upon a time, yoga teachers, yogis who taught these practises were all from the same culture and religion.
What made me write this topic down is because most foreigners right now will agree on this. Think about the time you were a teenager, what were the first things you did when you started earning money? Where did you go? Was that influenced by the people you’ve met, the movies, music videos you’ve watched or the books you’ve read?
Even though my first move abroad was a final push through an unfortunate event; my first full-time job where I was held at gunpoint. As a teenage girl, I was fascinated with overseas. Forgive me, if this is going to disappoint you. I was fascinated with the United States of America and the United Kingdom because in the nineteen nineties I saw this, how much a local person respects another local person to how much a local person respects a foreigner from the United States of America or the United Kingdom. That was the first thing that got me. Today from that observation I can tell you that everyone wants to be respected, heard and feel valued.
So, what now? I’m back in the country where I was born after being gone for eighteen years. Living one year here as a fully grown woman I can now look at the young adult who left eighteen years ago from a different perspective.
Again, I will disappoint you. She left a world where she already had all the wisdom available to her with a false belief of what life really means in the external world. The belief that was projected and what a lot of “educated people” stated over and over again, “Africa, India, Philippines, Mexico oh! Those places have no standards.” This statement just wipes off everything one could have earned internally and externally by growing up in that country.
Once, I met a traveller from the United States of America, whose best recount was from living with Native American Indians for some time. He also gifted me the book, The Celestine Prophecy. (Sorry, just shocked that I remembered the name of the book and the colour of it. It must have been important). He said the book has basically just been passed from one hand to the next and that’s how it became a bestseller. I then carried on with the tradition after reading it.
Using this article, I want to transmit this, that wherever you go, whatever you do, whatever you choose some of the oldest values taught, traditions, stories, messages, practices and more still are very powerful, they’ve always been. So better not lose it, better not lose what made you the you that you are in the first place to understand its value. Enlightenment and the way it comes to you is a gift, the people you have around you in that space and time is a gift, the energies present in that time are all gifts. Find a meaning in the new, but don’t lose that essence of you. Ask a traveller who had lost what they’ve known to find out better. – T. Dench Patel, 20 May 2020, 16:08
So, if you’re starting now with recreating this world, create it in such a way where people remember your footprint, the prints that made you unique before you went out looking for something in the external world that was never there in the first place. Don’t let people tell you who you are, show them who you are through your unique prints. This will inspire people to be themselves more, this will inspire people to share something in this world which we all have never seen or known – T. Dench Patel, 20 May 2020, 16:15
Yours sincerely,
T. Dench Patel
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