power is responsibility
Great power comes with great responsibility. Yes.
But also the far more often applicable, yet easier forgotten wisdom as well;
Accept great responsibility, and great power will be yours.
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I like establishing foundational principles for myself.
Things I have thought about so deeply that I know I have dissected them down to their core principle, so that regardless of what happens at the more visible levels, I never have to change course.
Because I know the guiding principle, my North Star, my direction no longer sways.
The idea of taking responsibility as a way of manipulating reality, is one of them. A heavily underused one, although I believe that after writing this blog I’ll move this one a little bit more to the front, instead of keeping it dormant at the back of my head.
Power comes from taking responsibility;
What do I mean when I say that?
And at the risk of scaring you away, or perhaps that is my intention because if this scares you I don’t think the rest will interest you much either, but either way at the risk of whatever your response might be, I’ll tell you my most vivid memory, of taking responsibility and feeling power flow back into me.
A sensation as powerful as Highlander having the life force of his opponent flowing into him, after he kills another immortal.
That’s what happened to me, when I first consciously applied this principle, although it was definitely not my intention to break open a whole new path to, I don’t know, world domination?!
Little disclaimer here – before we proceed – ALL actions that symbolize taking responsibility, are actually irrelevant.
You cannot take or get power, simply by saying you are responsible or having someone else appoint you in any way.
It is the energy behind it, a felt urgency, a knowing that you’re gonna do this and that nothing will stand in your way.
So in the following example that may or may not upset you, it is not that I endorse taking the same action as I did.
It is an illustration that if you take responsibility and believe with your whole might that this is yours to claim, and that you’re gonna run with it and no one will ever take this from you;
Then, you will feel as Highlander-empowered as I did.
This origin story of my first power grab, that stays with me to this day, comes from the time I unsubscribed myself from the government funded health screening program I had been eligible for.
Had been eligible for a while already, and had even gone a couple of times, not thinking much about it.
Yet it wasn’t after I started witnessing the consequences of such screenings, and I’m not going to elaborate on that because that would be beside the point, that I realized I wanted out.
That I was not going to let such a system influence my life.
So what, if I had a beginning cancer.
Very consciously and deliberately, I chose the risk of an early death over the horror of letting other people tell me what diseases I might have.
I was no longer going to take pamphlets from medical doomsayers claiming to wanting to save my body, any more than I would take advice from religious people wanting to save my soul.
I’ll go to hell then, thank you and fuck off.
I’m giving the management summary here, the whole thought process from my first doubts to deciding and taking action, took multiple years.
But by the time I had made up my mind, the whole idea of health screenings had become synonymous with Evil Incarnate.
So to say I was ready to unsubscribe, was an understatement.
I would have taken its head off, if that had been an option.
Thankfully for everybody, no killing was required and it was all politely organized through a website where you could indicate you no longer wanted to be invited.
It asked if I just wanted to cancel this screening, or all future ones as well.
And if I canceled everything, well then how about a tiny reminder in five years or so, just in case I had changed my mind?
They asked me if I was sure that they could go fuck themselves.
And then if I was really really really sure.
And with every No, and every cancellation, and every Fuck You Miserable Scumbags that I could not type in, but that I FELT in my bones!
I felt power flowing back.
And I regained;
EVERYTHING.
It was amazing…. I never felt anything like it.
Life, was given back to me.
All the power, taken by patriarchy, I could feel it flowing back, and probably straight into that part they had been after!
Well I guess my Highlander comparison fell a bit short there, but you catch my drift.
I was born anew.
Like an initiation where I had faced death. Now, I could no longer be manipulated by the living.
For days I was completely drunk with power.
And there was a realization that I had had an awakening. That something spiritual had happened.
Yet, with the same certainty, I also knew that I could tell no one. It would be irresponsible. Everyone would think I would be advising people not to go to screening, when I knew there was a hell of a lot more to it than that.
I had been living up to that final “battle” for years;
Had I filled in the website form at the first whim, no relief would have been felt. Let alone a response as powerful as mine had been.
But now, a decade or so later, I can share because I know what was the key ingredient here.
What happened those years prior, that made the shift so profound.
And that all this, is NOT about me bad mouthing health screening!
The key ingredient, is about responsibility.
I took responsibility over my own health and life, kicking out anyone who was there with government authority to test my organs for cancer.
However!
Someone else might take the same responsibility over their health and decide the exact opposite!
In that case, they will probably take the government screenings on board and perhaps pay for a few extra ones themselves as well.
See?
Told you this blog was not just me roasting health screenings, although yeah, it does bring back warm and fuzzy memories of my Highlander moment, swearing so much.
But the point is this;
This was JUST an example!
Imagine taking any annoying, frustrating area of your life where you’ve basically been half-assing it for years, if not decades;
And turning it into a Highlander-esque explosion of power!
It can be done.
It really is the being on the fence itself;
The not making a decision;
The not being in, but the also not severing ties.
It is the being too scatterbrained or cowardice to give it a firm No or a Hell Yes!
That, is the problem in itself.
Not the subject or topic, or the area of life.
And to a large extend it’s not the problem or the irritation in itself either. But you not feeling ownership, that is where your power leaks away.
Or letting other people decide because they know better, and you losing agency because of it.
Try this, any area where you have goals or are hoping for improvement;
“I am responsible for (-)”
And now finish this sentence, filling in the area where you have been coasting, waiting and feeling icky and annoyed every time you think about it.
“I am responsible for (-) and therefor I take the following actions: (-)”
Whether it’s about taking positive action immediately, or whether just like me you first need to clean house;
It doesn’t matter.
But pull all that responsibility towards you!
Be decisive, be thorough, and in a way;
Be merciless.
For you know what they say;
In the end, there can be only One.
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~Suzanne Beenackers
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