Purpose by Jessica Huie

Author:Jessica Huie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2018-03-24T04:00:00+00:00

Having the courage to confront your weaknesses and arrest your bad habits is to be celebrated. You’re in the minority if you’re someone who looks first at how they can resolve to change some aspect of their conditioning before apportioning blame elsewhere. There’s a wholesome honesty about doing that which is badass – but yes, it’s confrontational and often incredibly uncomfortable.

In this way, we have an awful lot in common with lobsters – those soft, squishy creatures that house themselves within their own hard shell. As lobsters grow, their shell becomes stifling, smothering and painful. Eventually, the lobster can bear it no longer, at which point it hides from predators under a rock, abandons its old shell and fashions a new one. This process happens again and again throughout the lobster’s life, with its shells often looking completely different from the previous, so much so that the lobster in its new shell may be unrecognizable to its closest friends and even to itself.

Within this process of spiritual growth, the discomfort that can accompany the shedding of our old ‘skin’, whilst unquestionably the very thing that makes life open up to us and reveal its marvellousness, is not to be sniffed at. We’re dealing with shifting the ways of being that have accompanied us for forever, overhauling our views and expectations about ourselves and our lives, inevitably choosing not to compromise on what we know deep down is true for us. Often, truth isn’t the easy option and that conscious deliberate decision to speak when the room is silent, object when the masses are in unison, stand when your peers are seated, leave when the only certainty is in staying, is no gentle waltz. The comfort, though, is in knowing that forcing your growing anatomy to remain squished into a suffocating shell will result in the diminishing of your spirit. An unfulfilled, cosseted, squished lobster.

We can choose between a period of discomfort as we break free and transition from our old mould, or a lifetime of existing as a smaller version of all that we might become. Playing small, dimming our light, compromising on all of the magical possibilities just to exist in the ironically named ‘comfort zone’, is not comfortable, at all.

Don’t be fooled by the masses who dwell in this space. Most people are unfulfilled. We live in a world where we’ve all anaesthetized our truth, hiding behind a representative with an airbrushed social media life, rather than being our true selves. There is disparity in our society, with growing political discord, an increase in mental health issues, a lack of housing and health-care provision, an anxiety epidemic in our children. We’re more medicated than we ever have been before. What more evidence do we need to acknowledge that we’re not OK! So why the hell are we all fronting and pretending to be? Pretence has become our norm. It’s the normal thing to do to have surface-level, superficial interactions, where we mask who we truly are because the fear of rejection, of not being accepted, is intolerable.

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