Don't wait to be understood

Do not wait to be understood. Do not try too hard to be understood. If it doesn't happen, it mostly doesn't really happen. Can they see past you through your eyes, through your energy, through your presence?

Can you see past someone's eyes and into their soul? Even if they are your oppressor, the reason for your pain, can you see beyond and see a small child crying for help. Things are not what they seem on the outside.

Martial arts is the quickest way to see into someone's soul and who they really are. When you sweat, bleed and go to absolute exhaustion and pain, you see the real person. Not the person sitting upright, keeping their emotions in check, their words carefully articulated and the mask is on. No. At breaking point, people will reveal who they are. And you also will reveal who you are. That is where often the beauty and simplicity of soul connection forms. I do believe all souls are meant to connect. Only social constructs and conditionings in the forms of judgement, ego, self-preservation etc. heave an enormous burden on the soul trying to break free and show its true colour.

Now to grow these eyes, this ability and vision to see past someone for who they really are, comes from struggling a lot yourself. There is no magic. If someone hurt you, did wrong by you whether it is intentional or not, it's easy to blame them. You WANT to blame someone to relieve yourself of the burden of turbulent negative emotions. It's easy to jump on that wagon of 'middle fingers to the haters.' It's easy to blame someone.

True strength is being able to channel that anger, sadness, frustration into love. Now this sounds very oxymoronic. Understand that anger is dangerous. It's a cycle. Humans ULTIMATELY, at the very very end of the day, respond only to love.

Can you see the beauty in the ugly? Can you love even though you are in pain? Can you love because you are in pain and so is the other person? Feelings are blinding.

Holding onto anger or anything negative or anything really, is a learnt skill. It may be from self-defence mechanisms from generational trauma, it may be learnt childhood behaviour or whatever cause. But holding onto negative emotions whether it be for a greater cause, is a learnt and habitualised behaviour. Just like learning how to walk the way you walk. Unlearn it. Free yourself from your own burden. Learn to love, be disciplined, keep clarity and walk, not run, towards where you are meant to go.