Samenvatting
This story is about going from Human-Doing towards Human-Being. From fear to freedom. The freedom within. Your freedom within. When people meet you they ask, out of interest, if you have a career, whether you are married, if you have children. As if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you’re happy… These questions you get asked are about figuring out who you are. But most of the time they lead to answers about what you are doing. You’ll say ‘I work here’, ‘I studied this and that’, ‘I live there’, and so on. What happens with these types of answers is that the Doing is actually defining the Being. When the Doing is good and works out, then all is well with the Being. For those people asking you these questions it’s a safe strategy; they don’t need to worry about your well-being if all you are sharing is your well-doing. In this story, I’m making connections between living out of Freedom or living out of Fear. I talk about how we feel and assume we have to measure up in a world that keeps telling us that we aren’t achieving enough. We go through similar stuff when we’re bringing up our children. We condition our children. And so it continues from primary school all the way through university and for the rest of our working lives. Never being good (enough). And not really being seen for who we are. What happens is that as we grow up, we change one of the greatest paradigms of our lives. Slowly, very slowly, we see our Freedom turning into Fear. We get it mixed up. We turn it upside down. We start as Human-Beings but become Human-Doings. This story is not a manual for swapping fear for freedom. This is my life-story, my experience of searching. I hope it can inspire you. I’m sharing the stuff I’ve learnt and what’s inspired me. My story is an invitation. An invitation to become, once again, a Human-Being. Because we have that choice. We can start today. Welcome Home.
Thuiswinkel Waarborg