Each time we have to make a decision, reflect on something, learn and understand things, each time we form an opinion about something: we reach out to our values.
Our value system is our inner compass, that is giving our thoughts their main directions.
Having said that, also needs to be said, that as we develop, our values change.
Another moment where we use values is when we set our priorities. What’s important to me? What has less importance? So, a value is a mind-thing, that is learned or inherited by education, external impacts, and of course widely shaped by the inner world of a person. So, there is an infinite variety of values, most of those adapting to mainstreams and others not. It’s yet again a similar issue as in the preview article. There are millions of people with millions of value systems, in order to control that, the mainstream values dictate the pace of the rest. If You take part – You’re an “innie”, if not, You’re an “outie”. That again is a social judgement on You, so you better beware and adapt. Nobody wants to be an outie. So, values can be and are manipulated. In our process of the disconnection and isolation, as to values – we completely lost the north. It’s natural. We cant value something we don’t know. We can’t value something we have no connection to.
For example loosing connection with nature is spiralling down to not valueing it – not taking care for it – loosing it.
Once we lost it, we don’t know even remember anymore what it was.
A practical example: “I need money in order to eat”
At what moment did we connect money with food? Can you eat the money?
It seems like the only way to obtain food, is paying with money with it. It’s not only not true, but it raises the value of money in the head of the people to heights that doesn’t really correspond it. Simple fact is, that there is a variation of ways to obtain food. One of them is working for money and exchange the money for food. But in all this process what is the value? The money or the food? Strangely, although we say “I need money in order to eat” we value money much more than the food itself. Even after the exchange. Even when we are already eating, we think “oh, good I had money. Maybe I could have had the apples cheaper at the other stand.” Of course all this applies to a wellbeing society. People who are hungering know all too well the value of food for instance. People at war, or poverty. People who lost their wealth from one moment to the other.
In extreme circumstances false values will dissolve in the wind in a minute and we come back to the ground. We live in a trance of false values and that can become very confusing. Then, when the system that is based on false values collapses (because it has to collapse, and will collapse since the foundation is non-solid) then the values become clear. The point is that we don’t have to wait for the system to collapse in order to revise our values. It doesn’t have to be in a hurry, it doesn’t have to be a surprise, it doesn’t have to be an extreme situation.
This implies a lot of work, it’s a bit like living in a very dense and shady-dark forest, and in that forest each tree is an excuse to hide behind. If we want light, we need to get out to the clearing. That means we won’t be able to hide anymore.
We will have to step out of our comfort zone either ways willingly or not, because it is time to do so.
Real values will shine through slowly and we will have to learn to walk again, building a radically different, bright new future on a solid ground this time.
