Your mental health will always be your most prized possession, lucrative asset, and solid foundation.
In alignment with my 2/26 post, Projections (circle back if you missed it), investing in your education traditionally is important. However, learning in what could be considered an “unorthodox” manner, by spending time and having conversations with older/elder people; is also imperative.
Think about it, all that you’ve learned thus far before you entered school was by absorbing the actions, sounds, and content of conversations happening around you.
· As babies, our job was to just be, eat, sleep, and shit. THE BEST, lol
· As kids, our responsibility was to learn as much as we could via the things I just mentioned above, and so on and so forth.
However, when we get to the ages of our teens, into our college years, and then into our adult years, the education is more self-reliant.
Especially if you are a person of color, your options are still endless but how you have to get more creative with how you obtain and implement the resources around you.
People are not as open generally as you get older, which is why fostering relationships and moving forward with an open mind and heart is crucial.
I read or posted something the other day that said something along the lines of being pleasant will take you far. If people like you, your energy, how you carry yourself and how you interact with others, the more likely they’ll be willing to work with you and share opportunities.
This is how you play the game.
This is how you keep yourself reasonably relevant.
You splurge on your mental health by talking in depth about what your passion about and how it affects you.
You never stop self-exploring. You never stop learning in the ways that you did as a child. Pull out that sketch book or coloring book and express yourself!
Start to leverage all the ways of retaining valuable information and channel it into what you want to create or do in life.
I’ll dig deeper into that next week.
But this weeks unofficial but official homework, is simple.
Have a conversation with a younger person and an older person in your life.
Identify where the disconnects could be.
Bridge the gaps by listening and understanding, first.
Find common ground on whatever topic.
We must prioritize having conversations in a world where we’re all so exposed.
We must be willing to talk in orde to bridge gaps of misinformation, misinterpretations, and misunderstandings of real-life concepts.
We must do the work; not just talk about dooing the work.