This is an age of extreme sport, extreme social media stunts, extreme plastic surgery, extreme politics and extreme personal belief … where you’re either for or against, where it’s about who you stand in opposition to.
This is the age of black and white. It isn’t the age of crossing barriers and seeking to understand or empathise. It might even be the age of “how far can you go?” where provocation wins over connection.
In this, balance isn’t sexy. And yet it might be more required than ever.
As has been said, this is also the age of anxiety, panic, depression. Of deep personal suffering and dissatisfaction. Where the old certainties of external life don’t apply, and people are left untethered, searching for certainty and belonging. They’re looking for it in extreme places too: in extremist groups like the alt-right and the jihadiis, who – ironically – have much in similarity.
Time spent forming a deep connection with the certainty of one’s being is not a “nice to have”. Especially in this time and age, having an anchor in your centre, in your own sense of what is Real and True, is critical.
Here, within you, is the font of all goodness, beauty, kindness, and compassion; here is the source of internal balance which begets external balance.
It’s from here, within you, where you can see clearly and understand. It’s from here, where you can connect and truly give, from where you can make the change in the world you wish to make.
Nurture your connection to your sense of Self. It’s needed more than ever.