Sharing our Intimate Self with Friends

One of the most frightening things in the world is to share our authentic selves with others.  We know, from early childhood, by blending in with others the perception will be one of competence, one of familiarity and one of warmth.  The others will feel comfortable sharing in return which has a pretty darn good chance of becoming an opening for a possible friendship. 

For the lonely, for the misfits, for the absolutely fantastic unique individuals not fitting into this mold we hide to prevent becoming ostracized.  Becoming ostracized from groups became the normal, usually in early childhood.  We were not chosen for teams.  We were considered weird, different, defective.  We were pushed aside in lines and bullied with adults doing absolutely nothing to help.  These actions by our "normal" compatriots eventually eroded our self esteem.  Being "different" was not a good thing, in fact it cost in ways which were often insidious by the very ways in which our uniqueness was exposed then ridiculed before becoming banished once again from a circle in which we felt free to be ourselves. 

Humans are a pack animal and our very survival depends upon our standing within the pack.  I really don't think I need to go into any more detail than this as we can easily view how people in a certain fraternity are handed opportunities that those not in that group will never have.  Promotions are based upon who one knows rather than what one knows. 

Enough unique individuals are of adult age now to question the validity of the old paradigm.  We, through exploring history, can easily see that it is the persons with a unique mind who gave the world most of what it considers the most precious.  Sadly, these people were ostracized equally to ourselves and only accepted on the surface of any group wishing to receive the reward of that Unique mind.  One trait that I have noticed, that seems to span those of a unique mind, is one of generosity.  Sharing their gift was never an issue therefor they were used. 

Slowly we have been questioning the very sanity of what is considered normal and in many cases raging against those arcane and antiquated ideas.  It is much more difficult to have a person of uniqueness thrown into a hospital and hidden from the world as insane these days. 

The royalty of our human race would prefer that we continue to know our place, stop questioning their methods and be good.  The problem is that we can not do this because we refuse to be "dumbed down".  We refuse to stay silent any longer.  We refuse to withhold the gifts which can only come from a mind thinking differently from the world.  It is only through these gifts that the human race will survive because our reliance on oil, coal, our polluting the very planet we rely upon must come to a stop.  The royalty has no stake in stopping it but they do have a stake in keeping those who are brave enough to speak their unique truth quiet. 

Lets not be quiet......