Create Your Own Myths
It's not delusional to want to live in such a world. And if it helps someone heal, then it's a beautiful thing. No one who talks to their plants insists on laws and jail time to force other people to converse with flora. It's simply how they choose to live, and helps them find balance in an often unbalanced world.
How many beliefs have we once held tightly to, only to now barely remember, or have forgotten completely? Things that in the moment seemed extremely important, that are now just faint memories. Some were beneficial, and helped get us through, led us to better ways to be. Others we only know of now from the shape of the scars left behind, most often beliefs pushed in from the outside.
And how many more beliefs have we had that we've never really even considered? So many little things we have picked up and discarded without ever fully acknowledging.
Humanity places such a heavy weight on itself, with things like faith and belief. As if they are critical issues that everything depends on, and the only alternative to being right is being wrong, which often means suffering. But what if, just maybe, the only crucial thing about what we believe is that our faith in it makes us more compassionate towards ourselves and others? That what we believe is only as important as the outcome of believing it, how it compels us to interact with ourselves and the world around us?
What makes you want to live? What makes you matter to you? What makes you know that you are important, that in all of history not a single being was more or less valuable than you are right now? And if you do not know, then what would draw you forward, while taking joy both in the not knowing and journey discovery? What would make it so you are not at all afraid of never having the answers?
We were not made as individuals in order to follow any set formula. Construct a myth for yourself. One that sets you free. With no penalty for being exactly who you are right now. With no fear of being wrong. Because being healed is more important than being anyone's definition of right. Being completely free to grow is more important than being right. And if it helps you heal and compels you to grow, it's not wrong. It's necessary.
You're the only one that can experience you for you. You are the only one that can feel around inside yourself until you find those ideas that set you on fire. Only you have the ability and the right to tell you what will set you free. No one else can tell you with certainty what stands between you and unconditionally loving yourself. You're the only one that is inside you experiencing it for you, and can give it a name. Give it a story. One in which it cannot stand against who you are right now.
If you are currently holding on to a myth of not being worthy of kindness, respect, adoration, unconditional love... Regardless of where such a belief originates, understand it's nothing but a story you tell yourself. The reality that fed into it has passed, it is no more. Whatever you tell yourself now to undo it has far more basis in reality.
And if you can't do it all in this moment, that doesn't matter. The seed has been planted, and the goal is growth not instant perfection. Not the growth of becoming something new, but of uncovering who you are has always been worthy of unconditional love. Otherwise it would be love conditioned upon becoming. And that's a much less liberating concept, no? Even better, if there is no condition to achieving it, it is something you cannot fail at.
So what will it take to get you there? To do the work of tearing down walls and digging up inner truths? What do you need to believe that will turn your beliefs into tools that will help you?
Create your own myths. Not lies you tell yourself to cover up how you feel or what you don't wish to deal with. But the story of you, that defines what you need to be now to uncover how you feel and confront what you need to deal with. A faerie tale is not just a faerie tale if you love yourself at the end of it. Neither is a myth merely a myth if you find unconditional love for others in the telling.
And if in the end you are standing before an angry Creator insisting you explain why you had faith in something other than what you were told, you have every right to look them in the eye and say, "I deserve to be happy and whole, so I could love others as they deserve. So I believed what gave us that." And if this Creator doesn't understand, they were never a creator worth having faith in anyway.
And if in the end you are just the result of energy's ability to condense into matter and temporarily become self aware, and there is nothing left that identifies itself as you... What did you lose? While you had the moment, you owned it. You gave yourself the freedom to be wrong, and the joy of exploring you, making full use of self awareness and a sense of identity.
More than anything, you are worth it. You are worth the work and worth the discovery. Exactly as worthy of being whole and healed as everyone else who has ever lived, no more, no less. And you deserve your own myths. You are a mythical being after all, and an unalterable historical truth, the one and only you.
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