Though I still love my family dearly, I'm sad to say I don't have a deep relationship with any of them, and they don't understand me at all.
The quest for truth, and the changes it involves, makes it a somewhat lonely path. There aren't many souls who can appreciate the evolution, and share in the evolution, the quest brings. Cherish the ones who do!
In this regard I feel so blessed. I have a couple of friends and several family members who are at the stage of accepting the paranormal and the possibility of hyperdimensional realties, which is more than can be said for most. But I have a handful of family members who are almost on the same page as me in terms of understand the densities, STO vs STS, and the machinations of 4D STS etc. I have fed them info from SOTT and Cassiopaea which has helped, and some have read books by Laura. I do really feel as if they are in my "soul family" (something discussed in the latest podcast). And yes, I certainly do cherish them!
In my 20's I was arrogant, in my 30's I was anxious, and now as I approach 50 I think I'm finally levelling off in terms of knowledge & being. I've been reading on this forum since 2006, that's 18 years. Popping on the forum has just become a natural daily exercise, not a day goes by where I don't learn something useful. It's a blessing that I feel very grateful for.
So there's hope for me yet!
Like you, I found these forums when they were set up in 2006 (I discovered the Wave material in 2005). Not quite mid-40s yet, but I feel as if I've learned a lot more in the last 4 years in terms of being more patient and calm than I did in the preceding 15 years. The Covid nonsense was a gift in so many ways; it taught me patience and also understanding more than ever of how petty tyrants and psychopaths operate. They also taught me how strong and effective programming is and confirmed beyond any shadow of a doubt that 50% of the population truly are like automatons (i.e. Organic Portals).
A clairvoyant I saw in 2021 declared "We are so blessed to have these challenges now; many of us have been waiting decades for them!" I thought she was a little crazy at first, but thinking back, she had a very good point!
I have frequently felt waves of intense gratitude wash over me the last few years, where I say to myself "I am so privileged to have incarnated at this time and to have discovered the incredible material from Laura and the Cs and the SOTT team."
And my life has become a constant weighing of strategic enclosure. I’m so grateful, beyond words.
Mine too. I gauge very quickly how open a person is to new ideas, then bring up (or avoid) certain topics of conversation accordingly. If anyone tells me they "just tested positive to Covid" for instance, I nearly always steer well clear of any "woo" topics (as Clif High likes to call them).
So I like to take the time to try to get to know other people, regardless of their “point on the learning cycle” as the C’s put it. To see life through their eyes, put myself in their shoes, and learn from them.
A great philosophy, one that I am trying to adopt more, though it can be hard at times.
It's important to look at others with tenderness, which I didn't do at the start of the plandemia, but the fact that I've read about totalitarianism has helped me to understand others and to understand myself a little more.
Indeed that's something I have come to accept too. The programming is so strong that we need to have some compassion for the awful predicament many find themselves in. I am not sure though that I have the ability to do this for those who suffered Covid vax health repercussions after they previously stated they'd love all the Covid "anti-vaxxers" locked up (or worse).
As the years go by, I find that it gets easier not to judge, and let others be who they are, as long as they don't cross that "red" line and want to push me.
This is encouraging. I am in the fortunate position now to be married to someone who frequently reminds me not be judgmental about certain issues. I am getting better I feel! She has taught me so much the last 5 years, I am so grateful we found each other.
[…] find a middle ground, and limit what you can share while treasuring the bond that exists for other reasons. Expecting them to change can, after all, be more "STS" than accepting what IS, and respecting their wishes as long as they don't infringe upon ours. OSIT.
This is fantastic advice. "Throwing the baby out with the bathwater" because someone disagrees with you on Point B yet they agree with you on Points A, C, D, E, … is rather foolish, and potentially leads to so many missed learning opportunities. The STS part also rings true.
And there I was the last 20 years thinking it meant "or so it seems". Similar meaning, but not quite the same!