damolaolomu

being enlightened is always an advantage, a benefit, as every light or revelation you have is a key to ultimate freedom, on a roadmap to a life devoid of chains. i believe that one of the greatest disadvantages in life is being ignorant. ignorance is an opponent you have to continually confront, as in a video game. every thing you don’t know is like having a blindfold on, strolling on a sidewalk on a busy road. knowledge and ignorance are mutually exclusive and understanding is a level above knowledge, a higher realm but that’s not the focus right now. the crux of this paragraph is that you either know it or you don’t, it being a body of knowledge and unfortunately you pay for everything you don’t know with pain, time, legal tenders, sometimes for a lifetime.

understanding this is initially a trigger for the release of a dopamine hit, until you realize that you’re responsible for everything you don’t know from here on out.  how that for everything you know there’s a million others you don’t and for every word in your basket of vocabularies there’s a million other words you don’t know. if you’re like me, you begin to realize very quickly how much work needs to be done, how you have to actively make a choice to know, to learn and to understand from here on out. you take up that responsibility and you begin to grow, edit your perspective, contend for greater light, adopt better mental modules and consequently, you begin to see things differently, the world, people and their opinions. 

that’s when the cost of awakening begins to show up, you can’t pretend to not know better so you trash the unprofitable opinions you once had and the belief systems and mental modules that no longer serve you. you see from a higher vantage point now, so everything begins to take a hit, your interests change, your opinions evolve, you can’t find things that previously amused you funny, you discard the old, then your environment begins to take a hit. you outgrow the normal, you question status quo, you get uncomfortable with the state of things. you begin to see the dysfunctions in society and the things that desperately cry out for urgent change. then you have a choice to make, what do you with the knowledge you’re armed with? it becomes disingenuous to act like you don’t know what’s right or pretend you can’t see what’s wrong. 

now that you see things differently, conversations aren’t quite the same, you know that people don’t know like you do and you see the ignorance and the gap in understanding, again you have to make a choice, pretend to continue to fit in? or step out and begin the journey to emergence even if you have to walk alone for a while. if you’re really awake to purpose, there’s truly only one choice. you make it and your circle becomes smaller, you choose isolation so you can molt and morph into the new, you become different, people can’t figure out why or how but you’re changing, it’s fascinating when you consider how quickly humans notice change.  superior mental modules are built and enforced, you exchange old lenses for new ones and you begin to make superior decisions, normal to you but crazy to those with the lenses you discarded. i think it’s imperative to point out that isolation doesn’t mean being totally cut off or shut out from the world, it means the journey is usually a lonely one, a walk you take on alone, a transformation that happens within so you alone know what’s going on.  

next, you have to deal with the deception of being conceited, ostentatious and proud, that’s a snare in itself, because haughtiness triggers a silent descent that might be slow but definite and eventual. you have to be morally disciplined to handle superior levels of illumination, by learning to be a steward, being a thought leader with the desire to be ultimately an agent of societal and territorial transformation. you have to be cultured enough to understand that to whom much is given, much is expected. to help people see as you see by gradually introducing them to your perspective, to manifest light as you behold light, to the end that people around you see light in your light. 

naturally for the most part, you outgrow environments, friendships and relationships in general, there’s a defined season of molting and while that’s in motion,you have to move alone, a lot of times silently, when that’s done, the universe has a way of bringing people that have a similar level of illumination that you possess to you. new relationships are birthed, new alliances are formed, new goals and assignments are unlocked, visions are updated and the “hows” are optimized. for every pros there are cons though, so you still have to navigate with how these changes affect your old comfort zones, safety nets and how old acquaintances perceive you. a lot of times wrongly, sincerely but inaccurately. 

personality wise, you change, you can’t truly remain the same with greater light, changes require stretching, and stretching means the loss of comfort and safety nets, bigger challenges and higher responsibilities, you have to die to bring forth life, for every fruitful tree is pruned at some point for more fruits and for every level of illumination there’s a mountain that has to be brought under foot, no mountains are without inhabitants and sometimes these inhabitants are giants. it should also interest you to know that this isn’t a one time thing, it’s a life time commitment but those that choose this path get the crowns. before the crowns you get scars – a badge for the valiant. most people don’t see these scars but the crowns are visible for all to see. 

there’s a tale i heard of eagles where they go into isolation for a season at a certain age to crack their beaks and pluck off their feathers to grow new ones for greater exploits when that season is done, even though it’s been widely debated to be a myth, this reality is very true, maybe not for eagles but in life in general i believe it’s inevitable if you make the choice to be awakened from society’s psy-op and be delivered from being under the yoke of a crowd mentality. you’d be disagreeable for a long time before your thoughts begin to engineer people around you to think and dig deeper and to desire more than just the status quo. 

unfortunately not everyone would be willing to pay this price but those that do cannot be ignored. 

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

— Ecclesiastes 1:18.  

to the reader, i’ve made my choice, you have to make yours too, and i hope this helps you make the right one, ignoring this reality is still making a choice and doesn’t make it any less true. and for the champion who made that choice already and needed an affirmation, well you have it now, you’re on the right path, and you’d be just fine.