Become Bulletproof.

by Jonathon on August 19, 2009 · No Comments

become bulletproof I am not correct. All I offer is a perspective. Try it on, see how it fits, and see if it feels right for you:

You don’t know anything.

You are not right. You just have a perspective, you’ve been trying it on.

And maybe, just maybe, it hasn’t really been the most empowering perspective to live within.

The problem is, though, that you don’t know it as a perspective, you know it as fact.

And when you know it as fact. As truth. As “correct”.

You erase any possibility of interpreting the world in any other way. Unfortunately, with those blinkers on, you are shutting yourself out to some powerful experiences.

Let me clarify this a little further.

When you’re having an issue with the world, it actually has nothing to do with the world.

When you are having an issue with a woman, it has nothing to do with the woman, since the only thing that can actually CAUSE you to have an issue, is the way in which you perceive, process, and interpret the world around you.

That is based on you alone, nobody else.

Let’s take the way you perceive, process, and interpret the world of women.

What is an ideal woman to you? What does she look like? What does she feel like? How does she act?

When you carry this interpretation around in the world, it’s like you have a checklist, and any woman you ever look at that does, or doesn’t fit that mould, get’s put into a set of boxes in your mind: “YES”, “MAAAYBE” and “NO”.

It’s actually the “maybe’s” that have the most potential in your world here. Since you aren’t sure, you actually give a little bit more attention, and presence, to those women.

Because you’re “not sure” you are curious, more acutely aware, and more receptive to these women.

It’s because of these things that you are actually more allowing of her to properly express herself to the fullest of her potential.

It’s with the women that you are curious about, that you are most receptive to the idea of interpretation. When this happens, just about everything she does becomes curious, intriguing, and more real.

The same goes with the life you’ve been living. When something doesn’t fit the mould of how you believe the world should be, you put it in a box: “YES”, “NO” or “MAYBE”.

Again, it’s the maybe’s in which you really live your life: you actually become open to a possibility, rather than shutting it down completely, or accepting it blindly.

It is in these moments, that you are more awake.

Imagine if your entire life was a “MAYBE”. To paraphrase, imagine if your life was simply possibility. No right, no wrong, just is.

When somebody criticises you, it’s not an attack on you, it is just a perspective, and the beautiful thing is, it is free to be interpreted any way you want it to be.

When you live from a “YES” or “NO”, this possibility isn’t so readily available to you. When you live in that world, things become right and wrong, fact and fiction, accepted or rejected.

Now, I’m not saying either of those realities are bad. Definitely not. There are things that need to be “NO” for the sake of your own survival.

There are some things that need to be a “YES” – again for your own survival (let’s face it, you can’t survive in reality that says “no” to eating, or breathing).

But it’s outside of these absolutes that you can live from a place of interpretation only, allowing everything to be a maybe.

Here, you really can be bullet-proof.

Rejection no longer becomes a personal attack on you, so there’s no need to feel down about it.

Success is enjoyable in this world, but not necessary for you to strive for at the sacrifice of the things of meaning in your world.

Dependence is no longer necessary here, because you understand in a world full of interpretation – you are already complete.

In this world, things become effortless. No need to try, no need to strive, no need to be a certain way, and no need to not be a certain way.

In this world, all there is is you, as the creator of interpretation, as a God in your own world.

Jonathon