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THE SCENES OF AN EMOTION LITERACY E-ZINE MISSION
STATEMENT THE FAMILIAR VOL. 1 ISS. 2. Missed an issue of the familiar? Click here to browse through our entire back-issue archive! |
editor's preface On the bulletin board of a local elementary school, I saw a page of rules excerpted from a book authored by, shall I say , an inordinately remunerated local, famed business man. His first two rules are: "Life is not fair, get used to it." and "The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself." I have one question to the author of these rules: whose world are you speaking of—the world at large, as you perceive it, the world that directly encircles you, as you perceive it or the world with which you are most familiar, as you perceive it? It is my firmest belief that worlds are, in part, comprised of people and people are not statues—they bend, grow and change. In an emotion literate world, the hard and fast rules that this man sets forth are most reflective of a rigid frame of mind, one that does not collaborate, flow within or recognize the river of feelings or their uppermost relevant place in the worlds we share. Further, "Life," "Real Life," "The World" all have one thing in common—they are terms that hold different meanings, depending on what and who has taught you—the "who" is key. "Life" in the purest of senses, is an unending energy, it’s the forms the energy inhabits that give it its sway, a sway as varied as the direction of a breeze. Of course, if the acquisition of money through very conventional means is the primary motivation, then, perhaps those two rules rule. Still, even the most conventional of means can shift direction and so can primary motivation and so can our feeling-stilted system of values. To the author’s first rule I ask—who treated you unfairly and expected you to not notice or remain mute about your sense of personal injustice? To the author’s second rule I ask—who didn’t care about your feelings and who in your world held your sense of self in ignorance or unyielding disregard. Final note: If this is your view of life, do you enjoy the money you make living in a world that mistreats you so or do you use it to shield yourself from the pain that permeates the world characterized by your rules?!
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