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What If Everything You Believe About Human Nature, Social Behaviour, and Love Is Completely Wrong?

Humans struggle with understanding, identity, and cultural differences as social behaviour, comfort zones, and personal beliefs shape our lives. This reflection explores self-awareness, human nature, emotional dependency, relationships, and the search for connection. By embracing empathy, authenticity, and personal growth, we learn why people act differently and how true freedom comes from understanding ourselves and others.

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What If Everything You Believe About Human Nature, Social Behaviour, and Love Is Completely Wrong? Understanding Others as a Path to Freedom | Empathy, Connection & Spiritual Growth

Humans struggle with understanding, identity, and cultural differences as social behaviour, comfort zones, and personal beliefs shape our lives. This reflection explores self-awareness, human nature, emotional dependency, relationships, and the search for connection. By embracing empathy, authenticity, and personal growth, we learn why people act differently and how true freedom comes from understanding ourselves and others.
 Do you ever have that feeling, that feeling of not being able or being understood? The feeling that we as people are not allowed or able to have a common opinion or common belief.Again and again, differences have been or are created. It often seems as if there is no other way. It seems as if we as humans have to be separated further and further from each other. Could the struggle that ensues be our real nature of life? Do we need this battle to survive together? Do we really need those differences that we often talk about, and if so, why can't we just accept them from each other?

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You're brown, and I'm white, so what? Why is it so hard to understand that in a hot country you get a tan from the sun? Why is it so difficult to understand that comfort is a widely supported concept? What means luxury to one person can be bitter poverty to another. One likes to sleep in a tent because of the heat, the other needs walls against the cold. I think this is due to the climate differences on the earth we all love. And that's what we all ended up with for whatever reason, I don't think anyone knows why anymore. We didn't come up with that ourselves, did we? And by the way, the people who think they need the walls in winter, in many cases like to sleep in a tent on the campsite in summer.

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They often opt for much less comfort, often comparable to the inhabitants of the tents in Africa. I think that when forming our opinion, or when adopting our attitude towards something, we often follow the opinion of others unnoticed. People or groups in our immediate environment that we should not or cannot lose sight of, but why? We are so dependent on others that we no longer dare to follow our own opinion. Have we as humans become so accustomed to hearing the statement: "that we are a social being", that we have started to behave socially?"

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Are we really who we think we are as people? Or is this a statement that we blindly accepted and that we were taught as children at school? Is this why we hide our own opinions in many situations? Have we already reached the point where we think that we can no longer survive if we are ourselves? That we keep our own thoughts and feelings hidden from others, just to stay involved in the "community?"  Can we no longer take care of ourselves, or is taking care of ourselves mainly creating luxury around us against which we then sell our freedom of speech? To be liked by all kinds of dubious people around us. Have we completely forgotten the freedom of our will?

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Do you ever sit in the dark room by candlelight musing about what you would actually like or be able to do in your life? Do you ever think about the unlimited possibilities that this life has to offer you? What do you not choose those paths for? Suppose we humans were actually all antisocial, what would we choose, and would we be much more unhappy? If we didn't know that we had to be social, that we could choose for ourselves. My mother always said when I was sad because I was alone again, and without a relationship: "there is a lid on every jar." If you take enough time, you will find the right partner in your life. I wasn't necessarily talking about my social behaviour, but about me as a person.

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By the way, would there be as many anti-socials as there are socials in this world with a good love relationship? Would there be people who can like anti-socials? Do they really love them, or would they only be with these anti-socials for the benefit of the many advantages that these individuals often appropriate with their behaviour? Would they only look with admiration at the profits that these people in their eyes achieved with the behaviour that they themselves did not dare to display. Could it be that without these people they can't really handle the world? Would they leave this relationship if they no longer receive anything, because this antisocial person is boycotted by his environment? And would they then look for the next partner who does what they don't dare to do themselves?

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Do you understand why these people put their lives completely in the hands of someone else and don't "just" try to live it themselves? I am like that, and you are like that! We all need something different to survive in this world. That's fine, find the person who understands and understands you, and walk through this life together. Be in love and enjoy but know that others need something else. Give them the space to live too. Know that people's behaviour comes from a certain direction, often it is not clear to them either. They often choose their direction in life in order to survive.

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What I find unfortunate is the fact that they sometimes burden others with it. Even when they hear that this is the case, they often continue with their behaviour that is harmful to the other. Often there are other paths in life available to these people that they cannot or may not see, these are the secrets of life that every person carries with them. I once read the books about "The Celestine Prophecy", "Seek and ye shall find", If you look around carefully and show the behaviour that others can recognize in you, then you will also understand more and more people on this earth and be better understood by them, good luck!

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Antonius Bakker

Antonius "Ton" Bakker, born May 23, 1961, in the Netherlands, is a writer, speaker, and coach/trainer. With a passion for personal development, he has inspired audiences worldwide.

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