Timeless
If you were born in another era, who would you be? What would your personality be like? Your values? How would you survive that world? What role would you play?
I think about this often, now. It makes me feel very grateful to be born in the time I was because at every other time in history, women have had it much worse. Education, communication, respect, dignity – these have been harder battles for women to take on.
It also makes me think of what if I had not been a woman. I cannot imagine that because so much of my personality & my choices have been shaped by the struggles of my sex. If I did not have to face those, I’d be someone unrecognisable, anybody else at all, with no connection to the person I’ve become in this body, era and life.
I think I would be hungry for learning & new ideas, no matter what world I lived in. It would be more important to me than social currency. It would be so much harder to be a woman any other time, valuing things only allowed to men and caring not at all for the things I was supposed to cherish. I’m so glad to live through the age of information, to get to be a part of the navigation of connection & communication, to be able to build community, impact people, spearhead learning with minimal obstruction in account of my sex.
Who would I be with this same drive? A renegade, a healer, a witch, a holy woman, a schemer, a teacher, a revolutionary, a scientist depending on which culture I found myself in. I might be an absent parent or a stage mother if child bearing were a necessary condition for my survival. I could be a hermit with a Machiavellian backstory in a world of war.
The values of dignity, of compassion, of higher learning, of growth & healing would always lead me. The examination of numbers & words & sights would motivate me. Balance, rhythm & harmony would soothe me. Kindness would touch me and in me, compound. The presence of plants, of water bodies, of conversations of learning would be where I found home. These are the timeless me.
What is the timeless YOU?
: ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE: Oscar Peterson Trio
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