I watched the movie
‘The Danish Girl’ the other day and I afterwards I was thinking about the
difficulties a transgender person goes through even to this day. How
frustrating it must be to identify oneself as some one else whilst being
trapped in an increasingly alien body. How disorienting to lose connection with
one’s identity and not being able to take on another. How painful to suppress this
burgeoning identity and try to live a life of conformity.
When it occurred to me
that that’s what we all do. R. Buckminister Fuller said, “All children are born
geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.”
Google says, the word
‘genius’ has its roots in the late Middle English word gignere ‘beget’:
from Latin, ‘attendant spirit present from one's birth, innate ability or
inclination’.
We have genius in us
from birth, but very soon society goes about stamping it out trying to turn us
into socially conforming people. And we spend the rest of our lives frustrated
and despairing, seeking something we have lost connection with, not knowing
what, sedating ourselves with possessions, experiences, validation. And tragically, most of us dying with our songs unsung, with our genius buried deep
inside.
So, this New Year, I
wish for everyone to reconnect with our attendant spirit, our daemon, our
innate genius, and let it out to stretch its wings and soar.
TO BECOME THE PERSON WE
WERE MEANT TO BE!
HAVE A GENIUS 2018!
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