Politics

I'm about sick of charisma. People getting away with shit just because they have that intangible something that everybody just seems to eat up...WTF is up with that? Why are others drawn to these seemingly magnetic people? What, possibly, do they have to offer other than anything else any other person has to give? Nothing. They have the "Je ne sais quoi" and that's about it usually. They've skated by, in life, using their silver tongues or good looks to get away with whatever they want having everything handed to them... therefore, they have become emotionally shallow people devoid of any virtue. Now don't get me wrong...I'm not saying everyone ( I try not to speak in absolutes...nothing is absolute) is like this... just the majority of these charmers. And if you truly think about it, you will see what I'm talking about. The handsome or beautiful ones who never form any decent relationships due to the fact that they've never had to form anything longlasting. They always have someone else, right there waiting. They use up the people around them and move on. And then there's the eloquent, persuasive ones, usually able to talk anybody into doing any of their bidding. Like the consummate politician whose smiley glad-hands are ready to level the weak-minded that are just waiting to jump on the outspoken's coattails.

Here is the strangest part of it though. It's the way they make others feel. They induce those feelings in others. They instill the strong emotions that others feel when they are around them. So how is it, they bring out these emotions so thoroughly when they themselves are usually emotionally shallow. Charm should only take them so far but it seems the tentative and uncertain allow them to get away with murder.

Raised Energy

I've been thinking about how people get along as of late. I'm sure in your life, there were certain people that you just got along with, certain ones that you just couldn't stand and a select few who you almost immediately bonded with. Why do you think that is? I'm not speaking specifically of that "golden child" who has charisma pouring out of every part of their being that everybody seems to like, or his polar opposite...the poor nerd that constantly got picked on that nobody seemed to like. I'm talking about ordinary everyday interactions that either blossomed or fizzled based solely on whether there was an instant magnetism or repulsion between the two of you. For example, when I started my current job, I went in just being myself not trying to impress anybody in particular and there were some immediate synergies that started to happen. For some reason, I happened to get along with three guys (who were all in different departments and had nothing in common with each other) better than anyone else. All had different qualities and all three were in different age brackets (20's, 30's, 40's).

Another example is my sister-in-law. We get along great. Whenever I'm around her, I seem to be able to make her laugh and we can talk about anything. It almost feels as though the level of energy in the room is raised because there are so many positive emotions. Which brings me to my point... (anybody who's read "The Celestine Prophecy" will know what I'm talking about) We can raise each others energy levels by positively interacting with each other. We can just be ourselves without fear of humiliation or condescension. It is a truly amazing feeling when we feel safe, comfortable and not judged. It makes me wonder about all those people who try to make everyone feel horrible, either by physical or mental intimidation or ridicule. What did their parents or the people who raised them do to make them so disgusted with others that they feel the necessity to dominate or control everyone around them. These are people living in so much fear that they try to instill that fear into others around them. Personally, it makes me sick. Before I go on and on sounding like a hippie preaching, "What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?", I just want to say... What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? :)

Let me know your thoughts and opinions on this subject.

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

"The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it." ~ Voltaire

Connection via Articulation

Thank you all, who viewed my last post and thank you for commenting on it and thank you for coming back. What's great is that more coincidences came from the post. It is amazing, the coincidences that happen to us on a daily basis... but we have to be open to them. Unfortunately, we get wrapped up in the daily grind and dramas and tend to ignore them or pass them off as merely a few remotely interrelated events. OH! but they are so much more! Pay attention to them and they will yield the most profound results. People you meet will have messages that you could never imagine. Old acquaintances will pop up out of nowhere with information that strangely seems appropriate to some current context of your life. Dreams will start to take on a whole new meaning. Some may be agreeing with me, some may be thinking, "what's the big deal?". Well, if you consider that a coincidence has to happen in an exact instance to make sense, then it may make sense to you that you had to be in that particular place, at that particular time to have it happen, therefore you are supposed to be there to make it happen. Because without you, it would have never occurred, which in turn means the event that never occurred would have no significance. Basically what I'm trying to prove is that there IS significance to the synchronicities. Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung established the idea of a matrix that states the parallels were due to the collective unconscious, or "a reservoir of the experiences of our species." We are all linked, so is it so difficult to believe that these correlations don't have some underlying message for us. Now if you want to get all biblical, consider the concept of "Divine Providence". If God has sovereignty over us, wouldn't God have some system of order consequently with some signs of its existence, like the conjoining points of a web, where the connecting instance is a nexus that is more visible because more people are connected to it and therefore more likely to spot it.

So the next time you run into an old friend or passer-by that seems familiar, don't be afraid to look for the meaningfulness in the collaboration. Strike up a conversation to maybe get a nugget of truth or some divine inspiration.