{"id":6744,"date":"2013-10-08T03:03:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T07:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=6744"},"modified":"2013-10-08T03:03:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T07:03:15","slug":"there-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=6744","title":{"rendered":"There and Back Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Global Conversation Community. It is wonderful to be back into writing. Through all the chaos of the transition into college, my body, mind, and spirit certainly have not been in all the same state of Oneness. But now, there is more harmony in my life. There is more peace, there is more wellness, and there is more wholeness. And I am grateful for every moment I have of it. <\/span><\/p>\n

But my story is not unique. It may be personal, but it\u2019s incredibly far from original. Every second of every minute of every hour, people around the world are forgetting the path and finding it back again. In retrospect, it is impossible to lose the path, because every step of your journey is a part of it. But yet somehow we seem to lose our consciousness of that journey, and awareness of why we are on the journey at all. So, for me in the past month and for the rest of the world, I only ask, \u201cWhy do we lose the path?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the past, I would have said that the reason why is because society has told us to run away from the truth, to hide under the covers, to bury our heads in the sand. Yet now, being on my own, I\u2019ve realized there\u2019s far more to it than that. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been easy to \u2018pull the blame card on society\u2019 all these years. We\u2019ve been in a state where we have seemingly very little control over our lives. So when things are wrong, and we don\u2019t like them, we point to our family, our friends, our state, country and government as the source of our problem. They <\/i>said it wasn\u2019t allowed, <\/span>they <\/i>said it was the wrong thing to do, <\/span>they <\/i>said that it would be a disappointment. With an accumulation of these thoughts, it has become a stigma of control loss. <\/span>\u00a0And yet, once we finally do get into that state of freedom, we realize that <\/span>the choice is completely ours. <\/i>Society may tell attempt to tell us what to do, but at the end of the day, we know that are the ones making the final decision. On love, on life, on everything. It\u2019s our<\/span> internal<\/i> choice. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever we have decided has manifested our reality. IF we have decided fear, then we have CREATED fear. If we have decided guilt, then we have CREATED guilt. This is nothing new, nothing that is groundbreaking. However, it\u2019s about being aware of those decisions. <\/i>For the majority of the planet, the answer to the \u201cwhy\u201d question above is the external societal distractions. But now, look for that answer to the \u201cwhy\u201d internally. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At the very least, ask yourself daily:<\/span><\/p>\n

Why did I choose to manifest this in my life?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

IF you do this, you WILL learn A LOT about yourself. You will find things you don\u2019t like. You will find things that you have attempted to hide or dissociate from. But being aware <\/i>of these mental blocks, being <\/span>conscious <\/i>of these ego pitfalls, is what makes the difference. It\u2019s what makes us remember the path that we are on. And knowing why, we can choose to bring back love, peace, and joy into those spots of chaos, confusion, and turmoil. And who doesn\u2019t want that?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So, in retrospect, always understand your reason, and always understand your choice. When we stop asking, we lose ourselves, and we stumble in the dark. To walk so blindly is to live the \u2018society\u2019 way, and what has that led to but more loss of self? But to ask why is to always look at our purpose, at our meaning, at our very reason for life itself. And that is what I\u2019ve discovered, and that is why I\u2019m back for good. <\/span><\/p>\n

(Lauren Rourk is a Feature Editor at The Global Conversation and attends Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. She can be contacted at Lauren@TheGlobalConversation.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>)<\/span> <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello Global Conversation Community. It is wonderful to be back into writing. Through all the chaos of the transition into college, my body, mind, and spirit certainly have not been in all the same state of Oneness. But now, there is more harmony in my life. There is more peace, there is more wellness, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[1347,1410,251,1408,1409,587,245,1177],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-younger-generation-take-on-things","tag-college","tag-journey","tag-lauren-rourk","tag-lost","tag-path","tag-spiritual-journey","tag-teen-spirituality","tag-transition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6745,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions\/6745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}