Day 217: Rome wasn't built in a day

Someone recently was explaining to me how they are getting impatient and cannot see a new world being made anytime soon, that there isn't enough being done quickly enough to make the changes necessary to improve the world.

In some ways this perspective is true, because the changes to our economic system and how humanity lives has been a slow process already, and time is always against us.

However what I want to highlight within this blog, is that an empire, a new monolith of existence takes aeons of time to get in place, then same way in which it took aeons of time for this current system to build up as it has.

Rome for instance was simply an idea in a group of persons minds once upon a time, then through trial and error, contraction and expansion over the next 300 years - Rome became one of the largest and most advanced empires in the world at the time.

So the original visionaries of Rome did not live to see their dream become a reality - with huge societal projects, we have to understand that we may not necessarily live in this body long enough to
see it come to fruition, to see the fruits of our labour bloom - but as long as we design the path, live the blueprint through our own example, then our children, or their children will see the victorious end results of all this.

Look inside yourself and you will see that it is your worst habits, your worst fears and patterns have been built up for the most years of your life, and are the hardest to shake - because when something has taken a long time to design, it can take equally as long a time or longer to unravel this design and build a new design.

So patience is key, but sometimes we expect too much of ourselves too often, wanting the results done straight away, wanting  to see all the fruits of our labour right now. In my experience expecting too much from yourself all the time is a stressful concept, because the ego is going directly against how physical reality works - physical reality works according to developing muscle memory, throughout years of physiological expansion.

But the ego is never satisfied with waiting, the way our minds are programmed is to want everything now, in the same direct fashion that we can imagine, desire, or fear something in an instant.

We have to learn to be more gentle with ourselves, to be patient but diligent, to not be so hard on ourselves when it comes to improving ourselves and the world at large  - because in reality we can only break patterns and develop sustainable changes effectively, according to what is practical, meaning only as quickly as breathe by breathe, one day at a time, one step at a time - as much as our pre-programmed mind desires, there is no short cut cheat to get to the end result of anything.

So if you find you get impatient and frustrated often, when things don't move as quickly as you want, and if your finding you are doubting/judging yourself and humanity because of this, then I suggest you join me in my next blog as I continue to expand on this point and provide the solution of self-responsibility and self-corrective application.