So you want to be important… liked… relevant… belonging.

So you want to be important… liked… relevant… belonging.

This issue is coming to the forefront… This expectation of be made important, liked, relevant, belonging by other people, or by some job, of by association, or by some success.

Or to be liked by behaving in a certain way, be liked by other people because of something you do or don’t do.

It is an aspect of being an effect… not a cause. Little explored by anyone.

You are either in the world of because or you are cause… BE cause

I feel important because… I feel liked because…

This what Hillel the elder said:

• If I am not for me, who is for me? (the often quoted translation is inaccurate. I know Hebrew!)
• If I am only for myself, what am I?
• If not now, when?

1. If you are expecting what you want from others, by necessity, unsuccessfully, you are an effect.
2. If you are only for yourself, you are like the Yew tree: toxic. You are governed by desire for the self alone.
3. And if you are not willing to do it now, then you never will.

But how do you do it? How…