Sometimes It's Easier to Cope and Get By in Abdicating the Call for Greater Confidence in Self or Others

That's a mouthful.

Part of this might be tacked up to streamlining, simplifying, "purifying".  Going minimalist, as many great spiritual people have done.

 

Emotionally we do this coping mechanism or natural trick to lessen the stresses and pressures that we place on ourselves. Lower or lessen the expectations, then we can claim this as modesty or humility, or some type of noble aestheticism, like an ancient monk of old, East or West. Nothing but little or no luxuries or comforts, or perhaps lesser job or career expectations, or marriage desires or hopes, or some other tangible or emotional goal that we defer to something else or nothing...

Began a week or more ago. (Seems like longer, maybe it was..)

Now it is Veterans Day, the former Armistice Day from 11:11 am on 11/11 1918.

I wrote a piece about the margins today, and that is probably related. 

Mediocrity, maybe.

Just getting by. Making due. Not excelling, but only doing the minimal, or the most that one can which may not be enough for others.

But we know there is better.

We must do better...

Work "beyond" the margins. 

If possible.

Abdicating the call for greater confidence. If that makes sense.

As a dozen English teachers would ask,

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN ?"

Precisely.

I published this and then I realized that I did not address the confidence in self or others, part.

Self-confidence, that is a real thing. Hard to maintain, or perhaps develop in the first place.

It would seem that that happens to many of us in the margins...