#maturation

In our formative years, every person begins creating a self that can keep him or her company through later stages in life. It requires concentrated effort to create self-hood. The task of creating a fully developed human being is an ongoing process, an open-ended assignment. The goal of self-hood is to evade slipping into a state of thoughtlessness, where we fail to take ownership of our thoughts, deeds, and lifestyle.

Perception of a self is not simply about actuality. Human beings’ identities are self-generating and people constantly revise and recreate the story of their being. Coming-into-being, not being, is the highest expression of reality. We only attain the fullest knowledge of a living thing including ourselves when we know what it was, understand what it now is, and understand what it can become. We do not know the truth of a living thing’s existence until we discern its entire history from development to demise.

Frustration passes like razor blades Raised voices over my tongue Rooftop horizons watch smokestacks evaporate Letting off steam too– A predator roars before the bite To measure out our worth Death is inevitable to prey Pray they take what they can, needn’t be easy Anger is the child within Foolishly unwieldy of my body Protecting me when I am wronged I have grown too great for Anger to see clearly through my eyes Soft is the soldier, that’s suffered in war Battles fought waking, or taking some more Quieted word, beneath padded quilt Slower to burn, laden heft with guilt Frustration is razors once slung down my wrist Renewed and unchewed from my throat Spit with blood, cutting words to us all As storm slips my lips, pass too–just a cloud

AAA ok I remember you made a post about Casper’s half-sisters but I can’t find it anywhere 😭 how many does he have? 3? 4? His story is getting so good I love Coco already 💖💖💖

Unfortunately crises in culture, as well as those of personal maturation, with which they are intimately connected, do not resolve themselves immediately upon recognition. They come upon us and are resolved in their own time. It may help to understand them as events of 'cosmic consciousness,' ontological in nature: we do not have them as much as we are held in them even as we are summoned to deeper consciousness and consequent transcendence.