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Stephanie C. Bell's avatar

Important.

Shalini's avatar

Thank you Stephanie

Outtamydamnmind's avatar

This really hits. Cause and effect is such a tricky thing to see in real time, but your words make it tangible. I’ve noticed how much fear and old patterns can quietly eat away at curiosity and creativity, and reading this reminds me that reclaiming that energy is possible it’s just about tracing the effects back to their causes and making conscious choices. Thanks for this thought-provoking post. ✨

Shalini's avatar

Haha! I was not saying that but thanks, you interpreted it better than I would have planned to write about it. 😂 no what I was saying is that fear can cause us to lose inspiration and creativity among other things because we would always be operating in a fight or flight hijacked mode until the source, which is fear is removed.

It’s like the thorn that Paul was talking about. As long as it remains, we cannot live joyful lives in full throttle (I am using this word third time today! lol).

The cause is the fear that was injected in us and the effect is the loss of major parts of us as a result.

Lived experiences by the way! As long as fear existed, I couldn’t function as me. Today, the fear got taken away and now I am singing, dancing, listening to all kinds of music and enjoying life and also being inspired every night to write and enjoying everything and everyone also.

But until the fear existed and it was for decades, I didn’t even know this person existed within me!

Outtamydamnmind's avatar

Ahhhh, yes!! That makes total sense. I love how you framed it the cause being fear and the effect being this huge, unseen loss of parts of ourselves. That “thorn” analogy hits so hard, because it’s like we can’t even access joy or creativity until it’s removed. 💯

Your part about living that experience really resonates too. It’s wild how much of ourselves we don’t even know exists until the fear lifts. And now? Full throttle living singing, dancing, creating, noticing the little and big things. That’s powerful. Thank you for putting it into words like that! ✨

Shalini's avatar

Thank you for receiving my words and understanding them. This makes me wonder if I should add an addendum to my poems if they are not fully understandable

Outtamydamnmind's avatar

It’s all up for interpretation 🤷🏽‍♀️ sometimes people will see your words differently but having the space to explore what it sparks in someone else could be dope as hell 😊

Shalini's avatar

So you’re saying leave it and let people interpret it however they do?

Outtamydamnmind's avatar

Why not? We all have had different experiences that have shaped us and how we experience things idk could be cool to allow your work to be opened for interpretation ✨

Alisha Bee Forrester Scott's avatar

Hi Shalini =) I like that you are discoursing about the physical processes known as cause and effect. These are powerful aspects of reality, as are conscious experience, and social construction. Beyond 'pure' causality (like the perception you are using to align your understanding), your mind and being are also noticing abstract objects, and social realities. The cause and effect type of reality is about physical 'laws', and basically how those the ways of events beginnings will produce effects (most often we are noticing them according to natural laws). It is cool because your intelligence in this piece also suggests that you are firmly utilizing an understanding of 'social reality'... which is all about your beliefs and judgments, your role and relationship to your readers, AND any greater cultural meanings which you've gathered (or that exist through the human collective). Whether someone else is in agreement with you, and whether or not they offer an interaction with you, is often independent of causal laws... but certainly is equally real! =) Reality is such a cool realm!