In the culture that my parents grew up in, reaching your first birthday is a crucial milestone to celebrate.
And since my parents’ culture is also part of my culture, I wanted to honour that by posting today, on Being Meta-stable’s one-year anniversary, and after a five-month conscious hiatus.
One of the rituals is to place a bunch of different objects in front of the one-year old and see which it picks first. This is followed by plenty of creative interpreting about its future!
I’ll offer instead a list of questions in no particular order, any of which I would love Being Meta-stable to explore as s.he grows:
What are we uniquely placed to do in this moment?
What is the most important thing for us to do right now?
How might we reinvent the economy to value what we value?
How might we proactively influence ourselves and others to care more about people we don’t know?
How can we show up consistently in a way that will bring out the best in others?
What do we appreciate most about…?
What are we assuming?
If we knew that what we are assuming weren’t true, what would we think?
What would a generous contribution look like?
How are each of us making sense of this?
How might we better discern the right meta-stable state between being and doing, accepting and changing, challenging and inspiring, pushing and letting go, self-care and other-care, trusting in our insights and recognising how little we know, … ?
How might we accept impermanence with equanimity?
What questions will guide you through 2021?