Thriving NOW… and Onwards into this day, this Year. Hearty New Year 2025 to my Freedom Kin everywhere.
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This feels so true.
When you’re young (especilaly in early teens) life can seem closed at times. But right now it feels more open.
I am curious, do we feel more open as we age? Like we have experienced life and crashed boundaries and turned ourselves into new personalities.
Happy new year to the whole freedom kin!
As an elder, I’d say that my experience is that people either get free or get rigid. A spectrum, sure, and… my sense is that seeing and embracing the image’s wisdom says that no matter where I am in life, or the path I used to get where I am, there are “almost” infinite choices about where and how I invest my energy.
As a younger person, I know that whole branches of possibilities were essentially blocked by parents and culture. I didn’t have the life force confidence at 18 to defy or renegotiate my “promise” to my mother, for example, not to make the same mistake she did and “not go to college.”
By the time I was 34, I could tell her – a former school teacher – that, no, we’re going to homeschool the kids. It will be better for everyone. IT WAS. A path that had not been open for her with us (homeschooling was illegal when I was a child, part of the Industrial Control Culture) I could take. Still take with my younger children.
The word “agency” comes to mind. A kin of the experience of Freedom, having Agency does mean we have more openness… because that is safer and definitely more thriving. We can choose, we can get resources other than from “the usual places,” and even choose who to identify with as “kin.” Pretty awesome, eh?
Rick
That’s nice. So if I choose this paradigm, I can get emotional support and ideas from other resources…other than my conventional tribe members.
When I hear “conventional tribe members” it connects me to survival. Tribes might EXCHANGE with other tribes for their own survival benefits. For Thriving, we can be generous because we enjoy that experience – of being a resource with and for others, too.
Indeed, the more we’re thriving the more that we feel connected (kinship) with those who share emotional values, spiritual connections, and Willingness to co-create. It’s expansive. Abundance!