Sunday, April 30, 2023

True or False: Questions for your Ever-Expanding Self


You are not a finished product.


You were not finished at the age of 5, or at the age of 10, or at the age of 15, or at any age you have reached since.

You are an unfinished product - and will remain so until you breathe your last breath.

You are not a product in the sense of a gadget or gizmo, a robot, or a process; you are a work of art; and moreover, a work of art continuously in the making; at no stage in your life will this artwork be complete; and at no stage in your life will this artwork ever be a write-off.

There were problems you had as a child which you overcame as an adult, and this is proof that you were an unfinished product as a child; likewise, there are problems you now have, which you will find solutions to - proof that you are an unfinished product as we speak.

You are a unique work of art, and you are meant to overcome problems in a unique way. The solutions that work for you may not be universally perfect or ideal solutions, but they work for you. They are related to the uniqueness of who you are, and everything that has gone into the making of you, and your life till this date.

Many artists were involved in the making of the work of art that is you, and more will be involved in the future.

Your parents, your caregivers, your teachers, your childhood friends, and other people involved in your childhood, were the artists of your childhood.

You have been able to choose your own artists since you became an adult.

You have been able to choose from a range of intellectual artists, social artists, physical artists, and spiritual artists.

You were also blessed to have some artists enter your life accidentally; you got lucky to have those artists enter your life; some of them were life-changing.

Finding new and unknown artists is marvelous and miraculous.

Some artists that you let into your world will challenge you to become a better version of yourself. They will be a source of motivation and inspiration.

Motivation and inspiration is often superior to physical help, it teaches you how to plant instead of handing you a bag of produce.

Opposer, obstructors, and questioning artists are valuable, and not to be overlooked or shunned; they help you find errors in your thinking. By forcing you to defend your ideas, choices, beliefs, and goals, you can be clearer about why you have chosen the path you have chosen.

Disappointing, distressing, and discomfiting events - which can be caused by direct, indirect, or master artists - will also have an effect on your life.

Because you are a work of art that's ever in the making, your life may not necessarily go in a straight line. There may be tangents, and even u-turns along the way.

True or false - you are an unfinished product and a work of art in the making.

Suggested next reading: The Other Artist

And a quote from Carl Jung - “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

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