The Micro and The Macro
We don’t need to spend too much time on the post-mortem. What’s done is done. I’ve shrugged my shoulders and moved on. No wound-licking here.
And that’s a good sign, I think.
Before all this, I was keenly attuned to the nature of change, and how we as a humanity, especially the citizens of our country, have been starved for change and transformation.
What happened this week is change on the macro level, and more change will come as a result of that change, and we all have to live with the consequences, good or bad.
While large portions of citizens are both grappling and celebrating this change, we are collectively in a state of suspended anticipation. Whether we supported this change or not, we are likely asking ourselves, “What else will change and when, and, how will it affect me and my loved ones?”
It’s all still too early to say, and we should quit the business of predictions at this point in time.
So, what we can all focus on right now is change at the micro level. True, lasting, and healing transformation will come through one-on-one conversations, the rebuilding of trust through small acts of service, and more real talk more often.
Micro level change will manifest in personally checking ourselves and considering our very thoughts and the actions that follow, then being vulnerable enough to share our worries and feelings and hopes and dreams with others.
I like to call micro change “next-level vibing.” It’s what happens once we have found our people—and not those in our echo chambers—and when we support them and love them. It’s when we are our real selves with others, and when we’re able to be emotionally available to them. With that kind of care and handling, anything is possible.
We may not know how to do this, or even want to, but if we’re to continue on a path of some kind of greatness, we have to be willing to ask ourselves, for whom exactly is this greatness intended? We then have to be willing to take others on that journey with us, one person at a time.
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