Standing Apart – The first step that we need to take to get our homes in order is to connect with the world around us. We aim to help other people find their meaningful causes and projects so that they may also find meaning in them. It is particularly important to make this distinction in this era when there are so many leaders who are trying to impose their agenda on their people.
I think they have forgotten that service does not have to be selfish in any way. As a result of the fact that we have succeeded in becoming great, we will need to be quite different from the egoists and extremists who have taken over leadership and invaded the minds of the world. There is no doubt that so many of our so-called leaders have become increasingly sad in the last few decades. It is because they are afraid of becoming unpopular that they do not make tough or expedient decisions, preferring instead to talk endlessly, constantly compromise, and follow party lines against the needs of the people. Our courage will make us stand out in the midst of fear, while they are fearful.
There is a great deal of dismissiveness towards those without a position of power or equal to their own, and they rarely speak with ordinary people or those on the front lines of society. Even though they are elitists, we will remain humble and in close contact with the people we lead while they are elitists. Their goal appears to be to always appear buttery, buttoned-up, and logical so that they never engage in passionate debate or demonstrate any displays of emotion.
They begin to lose their humanity and become like computers, detached from their hearts and dispassionate. The world has abandoned feelings, but we will live with fire and draw in a world that is in dire need of authentic emotion and connection. In addition to their tired appearance, they seem older than their age, their voices and expressions indicate a lack of buoyancy in their voice, while their tired, long faces and distant gazes are telltale signs of exhaustion. In contrast to them, we shall exude vibrancy as they lack it.
