‘I Seek To Understand’ …Travel Along, Day 8

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I seek to understand.  Everything is not logical.  To understand, you have to dig deeper.

Example: Politics

First, I want to say that I am definitely not into politics, so if someone is of one party or another that is their preference.

I just could not understand Evangelicals supporting Trump, when he does so many unChristian things. It didn’t make any sense to me.  Then, I watched the documentary: “The Family”.  Now, I understand.  That documentary made sense to me, and told me everything I needed to know to understand.  

Example: Friends

Sometimes an understanding comes out of the blue.  An understanding may be very simple.  When one of my best friends mentioned he grew up Mormon.  It explained everything about him that I didn’t understand, little idiosyncrasies.  With that snippet of knowledge, his whole way of being made sense to me. Ok, now I ‘get’ you. 

Example: Me

Sometimes to understand takes a lot of effort.  WTF happened to my life?  I didn’t understand.  Working with the subconscious, as a practitioner, now I understand the different dynamics that came into play and how they affected me.  Now, I’m happy with my life.

Example: People

I don’t even want to go there.  I was thinking about how it has always been said to not talk about politics at the dinner table.  Since I’m not into politics, I didn’t care.  After watching what I’ll call these two sides – it shows up in the two major political parties, and how it seems many of the people are so different on each side.  What I can say is, now I understand. In fact, I understand way more than I want to, and now I see the two sides in way more people than I wish I did, including people with no political affiliation.  

Ok, I will go ahead and give one example.  A woman married my wife’s dad.  She was, well, how can I term this in a nice way, ok, a real BITCH, and that’s being nice.  Mental wacko.  Oh, the stories, I could go on and on.  We did not understand.  We had never seen or understood anything like this.  Nothing was logical.  Nothing made sense.  What finally did make sense, was when we realized she was OFF, period, end of story.  Thank God she died.  I don’t feel bad saying that.  It was unbelievably horrid.  

Good riddance.  We learned a lot.  We eventually figured it out, in seeking to understand.  And then, there were the people she fooled, and even when we told some, they couldn’t/wouldn’t believe, since she was such a nice person.  Yeah. They weren’t affected, so all is ok.  

Then, when a certain person became president, I told my wife, well, here we go again. I understood.  I had been through something similar.   All the signs were in place, all the red flags.  At least, this person was not close by in our daily lives, sort of in the family so-to-speak.  Tuning into the news was way more than enough.  And to think, I used to think this was a pretty cool person because I was fooled by all the supposed wealth, the lifestyle.  Jokes on me.  I wasn’t happy with myself for awhile, because I was so fooled.  

And then, all the people who are still fooled.  They don’t want to understand.  Until it hits them personally, they don’t even want to know the difference, and probably even then, they still won’t want to, or care enough even about themselves.  Go figure.

That alone, is a good reason to seek to understand.  

Understanding actually can mean life or death for you.  In the family case: She died.  I didn’t. I seeked to understand, understood, and protected myself. Understanding feels good.  I feel solid.

There is so much to understand.  It’s still a steep curve for me.  That’s a good thing.  I seek to understand a LOT.