Floating Feathers by Zbar Ross I.S

Author:Zbar, Ross I.S.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Miles Trevor Press
Published: 2020-05-12T00:00:00+00:00

There’s no doubt I feel great freedom as a self-proclaimed superhero—that many of the things that tend to weigh us down or trip us up as humans now seem trivial to me—but it does isolate me to a degree. Those of us lucky enough to survive nearly dying without long-lasting harm know what I mean. I don’t judge people, but I do have trouble tolerating some of the petty concerns I hear.

“I need [this or that]. This one’s already a year old.”

“Did you see [insert name here] today? I cannot believe how he/she looks.”

“I can’t believe that play by [insert professional sports player name here]. What a joke!”

“I hate what [celebrity] named her/his baby. What were they thinking?”

The sheer number of inconsequential things people pay attention to, complain about, and take personally baffles me when what truly matters is the gift of life itself; the miracles of nature, the cosmos, and the human body; and striving to improve the quality of the lives of others by being compassionate, ferreting out injustice, and reducing suffering.

Many of my friends sense this change in me. Sadly, I have lost colleagues I mistook as friends, which I suspect is because they know I see through them. Or perhaps these friendships were always empty, but now with my clarity, I no longer see what I mistakenly thought was a constructive relationship. I take personal accountability for confusing fawning for friendship, but I’m also extremely grateful: I now have no problem discerning the people I can sincerely count on. Perhaps most interesting is that those friends with whom I now feel closer have themselves gone through significant personal trials. What we have in common is not only surviving the crucible but learning how to manage that new outcome for the better.

If you’re finding yourself in a self-reflective space right now, contemplating your own values and what matters most to you, you may wish you had the Clarity of Vision superpower too. If so, I’m here to tell you that it’s not exclusive to those who’ve survived a trauma—it’s attainable by anyone who understands the concept of an inflection point, or the mathematical location whereby a curve suddenly changes its direction. In simple terms, it is my physical trauma that now serves as my personal inflection point—the point from which I changed my direction, or my thinking. But anyone can visualize a new directional outcome. It merely requires an infusion of energy toward your desired state of mind, dedication to maintaining it, and enjoying the outcome.

For me, it all comes back to the many times I had fantasized about trying to change the world, particularly the world of medicine. I have now been handed an opportunity—and even a platform—to attempt to instigate that change in a much more constructive manner than when I was taking it on by myself. That is the purpose of this book: to start multiple conversations on a national level about the current, often misguided, practice of conventional medicine, to upend inaccurate assumptions regarding its technology, and to expose surreptitious conflicts of interest.

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