Somewhere There is a Someone in Everyone!

Somewhere There’s a “Someone” in Everyone!

Prepare to Actively Listen - Part I

A Four-Part Series by: Matthews Wright, M.Ed.

Precisely Wright & Associates

“The unexamined life is not worth living” … Uttered by Socrates at his trial for impiety.

Background

Our lives are a collective of essential innate knowledge, “hot-wired circuitry”, learned experiences, and value proponents we use and unconsciously access each day of our existence.  They tend to guide us through our daily activities and thoughts.  Our lives are buoyed, consistently dunked or drowned by these intrinsic characteristics and choices we make.  Know also that there is no such thing as “no choice” – that is simply a choice that is actively taken not to choose.

Somewhere in the process of “progress” and “materialism” many have abandoned their inner voice; that ability to hear “the voice of reason” as our heart and mind speak to us.  We’ve stowed away the lessons gained from elders, kept stored and fresh the directions provided by parents, and deposited the learned situations remembered from engrossed relationships and observed experiences. In many instances, we’ve lost our moral compass!  Take heart, those lessons remain warehoused within us and readied for use as needed. At any time, information we’ve stored can be retrieved if the user has not lost their ability to hear with their heart and mind!  Once you are able to use your creative skills to move your imagination to ideal reality, you begin to master what’s known as the intuitive process!

For those of us old enough to remember the Rocket Eighty-eight Oldsmobile, Howdy Dowdy, Tang, transistor radios, or TV’s Amos n’ Andy, then you know that it was quite different from the times in which we currently find ourselves. Technology had just begun to weave its entrapping web!  Persons of color and the poor realized even more about that time. Yes, internment, “The Trail of Tears”, slavery, brutal Jim Crow and segregation had millions thrown over-board, hanged, starved, mutilated, raped and slaughtered at the hands of those who chose not to act as stewards.  The centuries have moved on from when a community of people was totally isolated and left to formulate and organize their existence and provide for their young and elders as best they could. Those who actively chose that path had done so after much thought and the opportunity to observe and question their surroundings to make personal sacrifices to firm up their value sets and thereby feeling more confident and assured about themselves, their communities and their made choice(s).

In 2016, urban and rural communities across America, we have to make some bold choices. We have to consider and choose whether we stand united to protect and secure previously denied opportunities of equity, or to choose to allow the status quo to continue in their manner of depriving and ignoring the concerns of the many! To achieve progress, the Someone in you needs to be released to collectively participate in attaining the true quality of life sought for future generations. For a minority to be irrationally allowed to continue the believe that human resources are considered to be theirs alone is regrettable and totally unacceptable! We must Stop Being 21^st Century Slaves!  Stand up and Discover that Someone in You!!!