What’s the big deal
about complacency?
What's all the fuss
about?
Why even bother with
it?
Those are good
questions, thank you for asking. Oh you
didn't? Well, that's not surprising
really. Neither has anybody else—much. But we should be.
BOTHER
Complacency is an
important concept that's easily overlooked.
It comes in the guise of mundane self-satisfaction that quite ironically
ignores the practicalities of the mundane world, and this lack of awareness
means potential problems are missed. It's a form of intellectual laziness
really—an attitude that says, “I can’t be bothered”—and it leads to disaster.
Isn’t that a bit
strong? No, it's not. It’s how we got into this world mess in the
first place. That makes it dangerous.
Complacency
encourages the formation of an alter ego called 'little me.' Little me doesn't feel connected to the
outside world so it doesn't care. But
then because it doesn't connect it can't feel supported either. Little me sees itself as vulnerable. Little me feels all alone.
When we don’t
consider the ramifications of little-me thinking, we automatically isolate and
limit ourselves. And that's a grave
danger too because we can’t exist in isolation.
A jaded history trades this tale.
It serves those who feel the need to tell others what to do to pass this
lore; so we think we can't do without their protection. But this has never been true except inasmuch
as we believed them.
Slowly, slowly,
we’re beginning to wake up to the greater truth of a different song. Some are marching to the beat of a different
drummer beginning to see how we're all part of a greater dream, the great
whole, the infinite One—and we have been all along.
Just as soon as we
realize this fully, first individually and finally altogether, well, then we
dance.
