YOU Are Worthy and Deserving
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
One of the most difficult things to deal with in the world today is how many people want us to live small. A relatively tiny percentage of the so-called “wealthy” and “powerful” care for only what advances them. The rest of us are expected to be grateful for the table scraps they’re “generously” tossing us.
The messages are overwhelming. Do this, that, or the other thing, in the way we insist, or else you’re not worthy and deserving. Of what? Being, having, doing. Buy that bauble, unless you want to show how unworthy you are. Use this service or reveal how undeserving you are. Vote for this party to show why you should be worthy and deserving of the spoils of your labors. The messages are clear as mud, full of artifice and bullshit, and can be utterly distressing.
The truth is that you, whoever you are, are worthy and deserving. Why? Because you’re the only you that there is, and you’re here to experience what you desire for your life’s experience. The meaning of life is TO LIVE, and you’re worthy and deserving of that.
You’re 1 in 8 billion
It’s easy to feel lost in the crowd. There are 2 distinct ways to look at the notion that you are 1 in 8 billion. The first is that you are less worthy and deserving than some percentage of 7,999,999,999 people on Planet Earth. The second, and frankly more accurate, is that you are just as unique and worthy and deserving as the other 7,999,999,999 people on Planet Earth.
What makes anyone more worthy and deserving than anyone else? Wealth? Nationality? Religious affiliation? Placement in a hierarchy? Power? The answer is none of the above.
I can name a handful of people, including politicians, celebrities, and business moguls, who are held up by many as more worthy and deserving than others. What makes them more worthy and deserving? I know their names, what they do and have done, and yet nothing makes them more worthy and deserving than anyone else anywhere. They just happen to have achieved a degree of notoriety and/or infamy.
You and I are no less worthy or deserving than anyone else. Why? Because all of us, all 8 billion plus of us on this planet, are worthy and deserving of living life as fully as possible. And because what lights each of us up varies, there’s more than enough to go around.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t challenges and struggles to overcome. But nothing makes you less than anyone else, because all such stratification is utterly artificial. Every single label is based on artifice, and that makes nobody truly greater or lesser than anyone else.
What we’re most worthy and deserving of
When all is said and done, I believe that the things we all most desire are intangibles and immaterial. I can’t deny that having money, technology, and living in relative freedom doesn’t make it all a lot easier. They do. But they are not the main desire anyone has. It’s intangibles that drive most people.
Love is first and foremost, but not in the romantic sense. Love in its purest form is understanding and connection. I see you, recognize you, and empathize. From there, you forge together kindness, compassion, and caring. That, above all else, is what everyone desires. And everyone is worthy and deserving of it.
Even the most awful, disrespectful, terrible people on Earth want kindness, compassion, and empathy. All of them want people to fawn on them, show them adulation and love. They just go about it in utterly maddening, dangerous, selfish ways. Why? Because they see even intangibles as finite. There is only so much to go around, and the false lack, limitation, and scarcity of consumer culture is applied to the immaterial. But nothing could be further from the truth.
There is an abundance of intangibles. There’s more than enough love, kindness, compassion, empathy, caring, and even joy to go around. Even when you attach money to these, all you need to do to see the truth is to recognize this: “They” can easily find the money to waste on a pointless war. Billions are always, somehow, available. Which means that money could instead be found and used for education, medicine, and other more useful and more universally helpful needs.
Nobody is truly any less worthy or deserving than anyone else. To understand this truth, start small, where you have all the control.
Be kind, compassionate, and empathetic with yourself
It’s all too easy to believe you need to be/have/do this, that, or the other thing, to prove you’re worthy and deserving. That’s not true, however. You are worthy and deserving. Just by being.
Where this often goes wrong is when genuine selfishness occurs. Too many things labeled as selfish aren’t truly selfish. Practicing self-care, setting boundaries, giving yourself grace, and the like, are not selfish. Genuine selfishness is knowingly taking in a way that causes harm because you actively deny someone else the same good. It involves malice of forethought and wanton unkindness.
When you believe that you’re unworthy and undeserving, for any reason, you set that up. Consciousness creates reality. Believing yourself to be less than tends to lead you to find evidence to support that. It’s not the truth, however. You are the only you in the world. And as such, you’re here to experience life in its fullest. That means you’re worthy and deserving of whatever you desire.
But work goes into being, doing, and having things. And that begins inside of you. It starts with learning what you’re thinking, what and how you’re feeling, your intentions, if your approach is positive or negative, and what actions you do and don’t take. Conscious awareness of this is mindfulness. Mindfulness lets you make choices and decisions to drive your life to be where, how, what, and why you desire. When all is said and done, you’re worthy and deserving just like anyone and everyone else.
Nobody is better or lesser in any real way. All such notions are artificial. When more of us see that in ourselves, we gain the ability to challenge and change the collective consciousness for the better. This begins by recognizing that YOU are worthy and deserving.
Recognizing that YOU are worthy and deserving isn’t hard
It’s all about practicing active conscious awareness (mindfulness) of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and the positivity or negativity of your approach to direct your actions.
When you recognize and acknowledge that you are worthy and deserving of living the best life you can, simply because you’re you, you can start to look within to apply active conscious awareness to make more of this. Knowing that you’re the only one in your head, heart, and soul, and that’s true of everyone, you can recognize your own worth and deserving and make mindful choices and decisions to claim the immaterial things you seek, and share that good with others.
This empowers you. When you’re empowered, that can, in turn, empower others around you.
Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity — from the vast cylinder that exists between them — shifts life in ways that open you to more potential, possibility, and the like. From there, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you in the here and now.
The better aware you are of yourself, here and now, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, it can spread to those around you and empower them, too. That is an amazing conduit to help reason overcome fear in the collective consciousness.
Thank you for coming along on this journey.
This is the six-hundred-fortieth (640) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, reblog, and spread the positivity.
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