Corona Judgement Twenty-Part 2
Look around you…look up…look to your left…look to your right…if you are not alone…look very closely at the people in your home. What are the thoughts that come to your mind as you look around you, be you alone or in the company of others? Is it difficult for you to move away from the television or other electronic devices? Is it difficult to resist calling family or friends, to talk about topics that if you really thought about it, do not have considerable value or worth? Just talking for the sake of getting a quick shot of dopamine?
I ask this of you because, we are in a time that is unlike any that has been seen in our modern time. The predominant emotion that has gripped the world is FEAR.
However, I propose that the dominant action and emotion should fall under SELF-REFLECTION.
When true self reflection takes place, then you can come to a place of true JUDGEMENT. Get over yourself and that corny term “Don’t Judge Me,” the hell with that, you better put yourself under the spotlight.
One the most trending and “worn out” words over the last four years is “narcissist.” What better time to be self centered, self involved than in a time when our movements are limited to an extreme and the predominant person in which we are forced to occupy our space with is…ourselves.
This is not only a fearful time for many as it relates to the outward appearance of world events, but the shutting down of many of the comforts that people have grown so accustomed to such as driving to the nearest Starbucks
going to the barber shop or hair salon
and people are craving the club experience
At the center of these activities lie the intent and the desire to escape current reality much in the same way that has been the status quo.
The idea of accepting this worldwide pause and looking at it as an opportunity to find out who we really are and what has led us individually to the life situations that we find ourselves in, is viewed as a some new aged bullshit.
The object of this piece is not to focus on individuals who have been diagnosed as suffering from mental illness and substance use disorders. No, I am focusing on your average person, who by all accounts would have be “considered” a level headed person.
As a matter of fact, millions of “level headed” people view sitting alone for one day, let alone several days and thinking, analyzing, reflecting and JUDGING themselves as a form of torture. People do not want to reveal and deal with those personal mental layers that hold unresolved tramas, like an old breakup of a relationship, being booed while participating in a sporting event, being laughed at in public because you had a booger in your nose etc, etc, etc,.
Harry Taylor, who studies social isolation in older adults, particularly in the black community for the Institute for Human Development says that “it’s one of the worst things that humans can do to their overall well-being, adding that “the mortality effect of social isolation is like smoking 15 cigarettes per day.” In older people, social isolation seems to exacerbate any preexisting medical conditions, from cardiovascular diseases to Alzheimer’s, but its ill effects aren’t limited to those over 60.
Then later in the same article Taylor says. “This is the first time since we have been alive that actively practicing social isolation is a method to improve health.” Are these people featured in this article speaking out in defense of people or working to destroy the mental health of people, by focusing on all the negative possibilities of being alone?
What is complete whole mental health without authentic SELF-JUDGEMENT.
People can tell you you need to change an aspect of yourself over and over again but, until YOU recognize what needs to change within, you ain’t gonna change shiiieeett about yourself! Furthermore, the same patterns that have led you to this point will continue, I’m sure you have read and heard that before.
How do my words make you feel? Can you…have you…taken anytime in the last two years, two months to look deep and ask…who am I…why do I do what I do?
Do you have the courage to even attempt to do that? You can listen to all the motivational speeches that you want but, you are still left with you.
My intent with this piece is to expose you to and to make you think about the word JUDGEMENT.
Two etymological definitions for the word Judgement have their origin first in the year 1530 and it is defined as “a sense of discernment.” The second definition has its origin in the year 1610 and it is defined as “A divine allotment, event regarded as an expression of divine displeasure.”
Something is not pleased?
