2021 is a profound rediscovery of self, although 2020 individuated and atomized our collective self that needn’t define us. My whole life, I’ve been rising above the labels that society has foisted upon me, but I chose not to let the label dictate who I was as a person, or decide what capacities I may have. It’s when we conform to labels that we surrender our potential to be a creative force in the world. Labels are prefabricated where our potential is harnessed, holding our creative energy captive, and bending it into this narrow-sighted field of options until the will is extinguished. This is because, when we focus our perspective into this narrow channel, we surrender part of our identity to conform to part of the group. All too often, we don’t do an internal evaluation of where we are going because the pathway has already been chosen for us. As a result, the options we are presented with are often rigidly intolerant in their expression. Right now, we need to be coming together and embracing diversity of opinion so we don’t get caught in the loop of intolerant expression. This is where discrimination festers and the psychology of the in-group and out-group reigns. We need to recognize that the creative will has no distinction; for if it did, it would become causally impotent because the individual would close themselves off to the power of possibility as a result of imposing too many constraints on themselves, limiting the height of their unconscious brilliance. It is wrongheaded beliefs that shackle us down. It is this belief that our creative must conform to a mold in order to be seen as a contribution. Humanity is more than the sum of its parts, and the creative will needs to be a manifestation of that. If we aren’t blinded by the prefabricated mold of society, our power to create will become more diverse and flexible to the winds of change that right now we are so fearful of. If we have this renewed sense of self, we will become an engine that no societal constraint can derail.
