As a behavioural science student we are constantly asked to identify behaviours that are measurable, observable, and that other’s can agree with. Which I affectionately refer to as the MOO: Operational Definition. Lately, I find myself contemplating how some individuals evolve with time whilst others don’t.

Last week I read a Facebook post that said, time is the catalyst to a richer understanding of circumstance and proper evolution. For example, when you’ve not spoken to someone who used to mean something to you in a very long time; your evolution has resolved to be quite evident while theirs remains stagnant. What causes a human being to intrinsically move through whatever subterfuge life throws at them? And for others to just not care, and remain in a stationary post while life continues around them? It’s quite sad really, one who was once thought of with the utmost respect and resolve are reduced to being looked upon as pathetic minuscule creatures.

I was engaged in a conversation last week with a VERY Zen soul, we discussed time, layers, change, and how we as humans truly know nothing. Within the evolution of the human species, there are innumerable layers. I know this analogy is so incredibly overdone; it’s because it makes so much sense and always offers a perspective of the unseen forces in one’s life. The iceberg offers only a visible morsel, because it’s constantly focused on with the optics the entire bottom
section is forgotten. Even though it is even larger than the visible segment above the water.

It reminds me that in life when we don’t understand or it see what’s below the surface of a human being until after a heart has been broken. Over the last few years, I’ve been surrounded by truth seekers, liars, no substance all talk humans, who only follow one code; to do whatever benefits them and anyone else is inconsequential. I’ve never subscribed to that specific mentality, I prefer open dialogue. Over the last year that has truly solidified how I have decided to engage with the universe. It may seem silly to say, there is a profound force in the air that propels us into the future 20 seconds at a time. Where only the present matters.