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If My Parents Weren't My Parents, Would I Be Friends With Them? | 6/26/21

Writer's picture: Sai VasamSai Vasam

Have done Tai Chi on my own in the park last couple last days and I feel so relaxed mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually. My bodies are at ease. My imperturbability is strengthening. My balance is emerging. Every day I have the same mindset - Monday, Friday, or any other day. I'm not looking forward to any day more than the other. Each day is a critical step on the path to becoming who I want to become. I feel for those who look forward to the weekends only. For 2/7 of their week. For 2/7 of their life. If they lived 70 years, they only really lived for 20 years of them. How would you not feel regret at the end of those 70 or however many years?


I really want to learn how to reduce the sexual urges that naturally arise within us as human beings. Whether that's through yoga, Tai Chi, a specific meditation, hypnotherapy, or something else I don't even know of yet, that'll be the key in providing a sense of control over my physical body. I'm asking for it. It'll come to me when the time is right.


Here's a provocative question: if my parents weren't my parents, would I be friends with them? Would I go seek them out to be a part of my personal or professional circles? In what contexts would I have met them? What do I look for as I'm starting to expand those networks now? I'm looking for people who are motivated by love, and not fear. I'm looking for growth-minded people. I'm looking for people who not only inspire others but also themselves. I'm looking for people who create energy for themselves and share that with others. Essentially, I'm looking for people who get it. How do I find these people? What are they doing? What is their identity? Where are they spending their time and energy? It's almost like I need to build a persona of this person, these people I am yet to meet. Use my marketing skills and experience. Some of them are CEOs and Cofounders. Some are content creators. Some of them are religious or spiritual leaders. But it's really not what they do or their titles. I should be looking at who they are, their identity. What they do is just the result of who they are. Who are they following? When I go to events, hangouts, webinars, etc. put on by people they follow, they'll be there. Where are they most engaged? In person, at courses and workshops hosted by people they deem can provide them massive value. Digitally, on social media but in a more concentrated manner in select groups that also provide massive value for them. So I don't necessarily need to find the individuals who to reach out to. But the groups, cohorts, communities they're involved in that promote an environment conducive to growth-minded, love-intentioned, inspirational, energy-creating individuals to come together. If I can join those, then these are the ideal contexts under which I'd like to meet them. Leaving less to chance in terms of them being a person who identifies with the description above. So with that perspective, Idt current me would proactively reach out to my hypothetically stranger parents to get to know them more. I think college and high school me would have been perfectly content with them as friends, though. For current me, they wouldn't be friends that I have to catch up with every 2-3 weeks. They'd probably fall in the category of friends I'd be fine connecting with every 3-6 months. I think that's perfectly okay. I think that's a sign of generational progress and growth. When the children are pushing the parents on new ways to think and live, and if the parents are receptive to is, that's when the contexts in which I'd meet these strangers would be more aligned. So I think if current me met current them, they'd be acquaintances. If past me met current them, we'd probably be 2nd ring of friends.





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