I've noticed that nowadays people seem to be really hung up on difficulty. When someone is given advice or criticism (good or bad) or a plan of action, etc., the first response tends to be something along the lines of, "well it's not that easy" or "that's really difficult." And I've always struggled to understand what the person is actually trying to communicate by responding this way.

There seems to be a lack of curiosity in the world. It seems like people don’t particularly enjoy moments of discovery. It’s as if they don’t want to know the secrets of the universe. Being an extremely curious person myself, I often wonder why this appears to be the case and, if it’s true, how to help those who wish to cultivate their curiosity.

Have you noticed how fearful people are nowadays? How it crops up in everyday speech? How it appears to have become the default emotional response to anything “other”? Fear has taken over as our emotional overlord and I believe it needs to be cut down to size.

I have noticed throughout my observations that people are not very purposefully introspective. Everyone goes through times of introspection, sure, but from those I’ve spoken to this is very rarely a self determined exercise. By this I mean that something has happened within that person’s life which has forced, in a way, their need to go down a reflective path in order to come to terms with what has happened. Of course, there are a multitude of reasons why someone wouldn’t want to engage in introspection, but I have also found that some people don’t seem to know what it means to be introspective or how the practice can help them grow as a person.

When it comes to processing events, especially significant and negative ones, some not only struggle to cope but it can be so overwhelming that the only response is to simply shut down to what’s happening. So say something has happened to you. How do you move forward?