Howdy there, SuperForest! Hope you’re all doing fantastic and up for a read.
First of all, I just want to say thank you to everyone. To everyone who has been reading my posts, to the team and the admins for allowing me to join, and to everyone involved in being an elite team of people on their way to perpetually create the universe. Not to say we are above anybody in any way! You may recall a song SuperForester Jason performed at the Life is Good festival a little while back called Sandisco Reggaefornia? Here is one of my favorite verses of all time, from the song mentioned:
“So take a good look and try for a moment
If you tried and you like it show the world that you’re belonging on it
Only those with open hearts and minds
Will get a pass on the fast track cash list line
But uh, don’t be laughing at whoever’s behind
Because everybody’s happy on their own damn time
And everybody’s craft be uniquely defined
Just as everybody’s ass be free and divine”
Clever. Forever clever. I thought the 3rd to last went “Everybody’s path be on their own damn time,” but either way! I love the lyrics. Again, thank you to all. You all are love.
I haven’t been posting too much on my own blog or SF, partly because my life’s been going phenomenally. That sounds weird, though, doesn’t it? Have you ever been so satisfied and content with things, that you have no words for it? I suppose that’s how its been.
However, as teenage hormones tend to go, a part of me has also been in a rather bad place in the past few weeks. I found myself in some sort of bizarre funk without an origin, and it picked at me more than I would have liked it to. Mostly because the hero in me was still somewhere in the depths of my soul; she was just lost and I had no idea how to find her. I was frustrated. I questioned my place in the lives of my friends, family, and peers. I questioned my place in my own life. Normally I love soul-searching, but when I go off on my spirit safaris, I tend to have a destination. This time I didn’t. But, I figured I had to start somewhere, or else I’d end up nowhere.
So I just thought for what felt like eons. I thought about where I was going into the future, and if my prospective finish line fit me. I thought about how scared I was of ending up miserable as an adult (as crazy a notion as that sounded to me. I never would look at myself as someone who would ever be miserable, for any reason). These ideas were pretty heavy on my head, and weighed me down more than anything else. I wasn’t getting anywhere worrying my life away (cough, cough!).
I switched some things around and instead decided “Hey. Instead of worrying about if I DON’T have a place in the lives of the ones I love, why not try to find where I DO have a place in the lives of those I love?” With this new direction, I found the positive thoughts came out much easier than the negative; such is the magic of SuperForest-ism. I seemed to have forgotten that, by gum, I DO matter! Whether or not its blatantly in my face, I matter, as does everybody else in the world.
One thing that stuck out to me a touch brighter than the rest of the newly lit stars in my mind was my government teacher. He’s one of the greatest men I’ve ever met. At our school, we do a little pre-class activity called “Good Things” where we share something good that happened to us that day. My good thing was that I had joined SuperForest.
I didn’t expect anybody to really care, but my teacher actually did; a pleasant surprise. He said he wanted to take a look at the site and what I posted, and subsequent blushing and fumbling of words followed.
I showed him the website before this lovely weekend began, so in expectation of him reading this: Thank you, Mr. Lerma. That little action you took led me to the point of this entire post, which I’ll get to shortly.
Everybody will at least once in their life asks themselves the following question: “What is my purpose?” I did myself, far too much, back in middle school.
Middle school, of all places, where the hardest math I had to do was dividing decimals. Where was I even going to find the answer to this so young? That was just the thing: I didn’t. And it drove me crazy.
It drives everybody crazy, because nobody has a surefire answer. One of the reasons I personally believe this happens, is because everybody is expecting themselves to be more than life. They question their meaning and worth with the intent of finding themselves somewhere beyond life, as if life just isn’t enough for them. As if they require something more than life.
Maybe it’s not so much we all want something more THAN life, but we want more OUT OF life. When you get down to it, life has endless things to offer, and somewhere in of our beautiful subconscious, we all realize that. We realize that there’s boundlessness abound, yet we’re only initially given a teeny-tiny sliver of that. Humans are all children inside of a toystore, and we’re given one or two toys alone. The entire emporium is there waiting right in front of us, yet all we’ve got is these few trinkets. Who wouldn’t be frustrated with life, in that context?
People want to be great, do great, but we simultaneously feel like we can’t for some reason or another. Nobody can be blamed. Our history is as cruel and oppressive as it is freeing and breathtaking.
I recently brought this up in a debate in my science class about the usage of fossil fuels and how we need to start looking in a new direction: “There was a time when people thought the world was flat. That changed. There was a time when people were killed because they were thought to be witches, with no apparent evidence. That changed. Things have to change, things have to progress.”
Feeling you can’t do anything will lead you to not do anything. Feeling you can do anything will lead you to do anything. That is one of the most prominent ideas of SuperForest, and it needs to be applied to the lives of all. Pardon me if I sound like I’m preaching.
You may recall one of my earlier posts, Think Big! This may be a continuation of that, in a way.
In light of thinking big about ourselves, what would happen if we all did this:
Q: What is my purpose in life?
A: To be a superhero.
Let’s just consider that. What if we all just classified ourselves as superheroes? Is our job not to live our lives in pursuit of happiness and helping out our fellow human? Are we not either a savior of ourselves or others by existing? Even the most “losery” person may save someone by setting an example for what they don’t want to be. Maybe said loser will inspire somebody to save them, thus making the inspired a hero.
Let us not try to pound into ourselves some sort of fundamental meaning that nobody can figure out. If you’re having difficulty figuring out your meaning, start big. Tell yourself “Well I’m supposed to be a superhero, obviously.” When you have that, then you can start figuring out how to be one, instead of being lost in trying to find out what you’re supposed to be.
In reality, our purpose just sort of becomes what it is. It tends to be at the end of our lives when we realize what we were meant to be, and hopefully have reached that. It’s very hard to decide now what your purpose is in life when you’ve relatively just started, no matter where you are. That’s like trying to figure out the ending of a book, but only seeing the cover. It’s much easier and much less stressful to go somewhere when you have an idea where to start.
For instance! I was playing a video game earlier and it was completely in Japanese. It was pretty tough figuring out what to do. I imagine if I learned Japanese, it’d be significantly more smooth.
The bottom line here is everybody is born to be a superhero. We were born to save and sustain. And even if we weren’t and I’m 100% wrong, I think you’ll find that at least considering the above to be true just overall makes a difference. Everybody, say it with me now!
What is my purpose in life?
To be a superhero, of course!
-XITVII
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