Looking Around, Lost

Daily Meditation 826–6/4/2024

Sadly, many of us are “sheep”ish. I mean that in the fact we tend to just follow instead of shutting up or even leading others in different directions.

You can look at a simple sporting event, protest gone awry, or riot to see this in full effect. One person chants, slowly everyone follows suit, and then you’re doing it, too, even if you don’t know fully what’s going on. One person throws a rock causing others to, too, a window breaks and now everything is being looted and you ask yourself “Haven’t you always wanted a PS5?”

Ideally we aren’t even in the situations that have the potential to “go awry” such as these in the first place. Hopefully we have the gumption to stay the heck away.

Here’s where I’m going with this:

Don’t be the follower. 90% of the time, being a follower means you get left “holding the bag,” so to speak.

Seek to either be hands-off altogether (neutral) or be an initiator, a leader.

And not just any leader — be the voice of reason or the person doing the right thing.

The title, today, is “Looking Around, Lost,” because mentally so many of us look around dumbly for some sign of the crowd — a popular haircut, a popular brand, a popular movement or social justice cause — instead of…