The Beautiful Whole

When we started our adventure, we didn't know what the outcome would be. We simply headed out to see what we would find. Discovery. As is usually the case when someone does something like this, I found myself, not physical locations. (although we did find a few of those too.) We made our lives bigger by making our house smaller.

Humbled. That's how I feel after 18 months of living on the road. I am not impressed with the "modern world" persona that I created for myself, and more conscious of my "natural world" self. I really am just a human unit and my value is one human unit. My value is not what a promo video or website says.

I have a meaning the transcends what I represent as a consumer, census figure or Google search. The fact that I am a "common" human makes me instantly immense, an equal part of a much greater whole. I am entitled to no more or less than any other. It is great to be an equal part of the beautiful whole. (That doesn't sound right when I say it out loud.) 

I lose track of the beautiful whole in the "modern world." Easy to think about just the lonely me. Easy to think one person deserves better treatment, food, respect because... is there a reason? Our modern world often rewards the aggressive, the dominant, the bully, the cheat, the vulgarizer; the cold, heartless efficient computers churning billions of calculations. I don't know how you got your money, maybe you did something bad to someone. Maybe you are a rich criminal.

How can I make the modern world reward all of us, especially those who do not press their advantage? I have an idea. What if I make a charitable donation in every transaction? What if instead of trying to scrape every last dime off of every last person, what if I try to make sure that there was a little extra for them in it every time? A little something to feed hope. Maybe it is not extra money that I leave them with, maybe it is extra dignity.

I want to find the way to thrive while being the best version of myself. I need to humble myself and pay back the universe for the greed of my arrogance.

I found the beautiful whole. I want to stay in the beautiful whole.