I know this sounds simplistic, but until we stop the inputs to our psyche (via the information device connected to our hand 24x7), I don’t see a way out.
I now live in a world where everyone is looking down and living elsewhere except the wonder of the present moment.
“This is not the end of the world. It is the end of a narrative.”
This felt like truth spoken from inside the fracture - not as fear, but as recognition. To me, it reads as an invitation to stay responsive rather than afraid. Thanks for sharing.
I think it’s becoming harder to hold a shared story when our lived realities are so far apart. The distance between the haves and the have-nots feels not just wide, but almost unbridgeable, to the point where one person’s daily experience can feel utterly foreign to another’s. In that divide, alignment becomes difficult, even when the desire for it is sincere.
So much of this fracture is amplified by media. After spending the past year shouting fire, fire, fire from the rooftops, I’ve come to a quieter, more painful acceptance: I will keep speaking up and doing my part, but perhaps we are in a moment where things must fully fall apart before they can be woven back together. Maybe only after that unraveling can we remember how to meet one another again.
And the answer comes observing people in my coaching practice: who in reality start moving before it is really uncomfortable? A very small minority, in fact.
So yes, it is highly possible that we wait until nothing hold to start making changes. Yet I have also spend 25 years in countries who had lost everything, and it is not a pleasant experience.
So somehow, like you, I keep sharing and letting my voice hear in the grand orchestra.
An I try to stay curious and open to what is actually happening.
I often say "I wanted change and now that it is happening I don't really like the flavor of it".
Such a resonant piece, individually and collectively. Humans are ink dots on a seismograph measuring the tremors within our foundations. The great unease is here as we whisper to ourselves, "What is my play in a world I no longer want to be a part of?" Healing what troubles us is impossible if we don't share the same reality, and the kaleidoscope gets more complex at every turn. There is hope, but only if we earn it. If the human scaffolding rebuilds itself. And that starts within, not out there. Trying times.
I see ( i was replying to another comment of yours....) that you have read this piece too.
Great.
When the story falls apart, we also have an opportunity to create a new one, a new narrative.
As I mentioned Mark Carney's speech at Davos, this is exactly that, we have an opportunity to show the. world what the middle power only can do: create stability and a future we want to belong to.
And I think Europe is at an advantage for that because of its multiplicity or languages and cultures, it is harder to sway one way or another. Yes, it also creates bottlenecks and inefficiencies, but may be these are the wrong words, may they are constraint that prevent the excess of the super powers, some form of "check and balances" in a system that is loosing its stability.
Many folks feel the social fracture, but:
1. They cannot name the source.
2. Have no idea how to repair the dissolution.
I know this sounds simplistic, but until we stop the inputs to our psyche (via the information device connected to our hand 24x7), I don’t see a way out.
I now live in a world where everyone is looking down and living elsewhere except the wonder of the present moment.
Love your work.
Thank you Gustavo, yes it is indeed scary to walk around just about anywhere, and see everyone just looking down at their screen...
“This is not the end of the world. It is the end of a narrative.”
This felt like truth spoken from inside the fracture - not as fear, but as recognition. To me, it reads as an invitation to stay responsive rather than afraid. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, fear leads somewhere, being open leads somewhere else... we are al free to chose. Love
I think it’s becoming harder to hold a shared story when our lived realities are so far apart. The distance between the haves and the have-nots feels not just wide, but almost unbridgeable, to the point where one person’s daily experience can feel utterly foreign to another’s. In that divide, alignment becomes difficult, even when the desire for it is sincere.
So much of this fracture is amplified by media. After spending the past year shouting fire, fire, fire from the rooftops, I’ve come to a quieter, more painful acceptance: I will keep speaking up and doing my part, but perhaps we are in a moment where things must fully fall apart before they can be woven back together. Maybe only after that unraveling can we remember how to meet one another again.
I have been pondering that question for so long.
And the answer comes observing people in my coaching practice: who in reality start moving before it is really uncomfortable? A very small minority, in fact.
So yes, it is highly possible that we wait until nothing hold to start making changes. Yet I have also spend 25 years in countries who had lost everything, and it is not a pleasant experience.
So somehow, like you, I keep sharing and letting my voice hear in the grand orchestra.
An I try to stay curious and open to what is actually happening.
I often say "I wanted change and now that it is happening I don't really like the flavor of it".
Life is not without a sense of irony.
If there is a God, or a conscious universe, we are it’s cosmic little joke.
Such a resonant piece, individually and collectively. Humans are ink dots on a seismograph measuring the tremors within our foundations. The great unease is here as we whisper to ourselves, "What is my play in a world I no longer want to be a part of?" Healing what troubles us is impossible if we don't share the same reality, and the kaleidoscope gets more complex at every turn. There is hope, but only if we earn it. If the human scaffolding rebuilds itself. And that starts within, not out there. Trying times.
I see ( i was replying to another comment of yours....) that you have read this piece too.
Great.
When the story falls apart, we also have an opportunity to create a new one, a new narrative.
As I mentioned Mark Carney's speech at Davos, this is exactly that, we have an opportunity to show the. world what the middle power only can do: create stability and a future we want to belong to.
And I think Europe is at an advantage for that because of its multiplicity or languages and cultures, it is harder to sway one way or another. Yes, it also creates bottlenecks and inefficiencies, but may be these are the wrong words, may they are constraint that prevent the excess of the super powers, some form of "check and balances" in a system that is loosing its stability.
Love
Thank you Cindy for your thoughts on this matter.
Love this! Thank you.
Thank you Cindy!