What I loved best about your writing is the reflection. So many do not take the time to think about their thinking. That is where, in my mind d, wisdom lies and grows you. May those reading reflect upon their own life.
Thank you for this. ❤️ I think you’ve captured something that matters so much to me - taking the time to think about our own thinking. We can move through so much of life without ever stopping to ask why we think, feel or respond the way we do.
For me, that pause is where a lot of the learning happens. I love the idea that the piece might encourage someone to stop for a moment and reflect on their own life rather than simply take my words and move on. That would mean a lot to me. 💕
I love doing these hypotheticals. I mostly think about why would a person decide to come to Earth to be Hitler or Trump or that snaky Steven Miller. UGH, but I end up really admiring their willingness to experience the hatred and disapprobation so the rest of us can have the experience of living under tyranny and prejudice, racism, being "less than," subject to murder just because of race, religion, skin color. I am currently writing a series about our mitochondrial most recent common ancestor, (mtMRCA) from the POV of the people living in Africa 150000-200000 years ago. It really stretches my horizons to always be thinking how they lived scrabbling for safety, security, basic needs every minute of every day when we live and bemoan our fate in the middle of so much abundance, Here's a link to the first 8 episodes of The Common Thread: https://virginialynns.substack.com/p/do-you-know-we-are-all-family-the?r=ql3sy
I love these kinds of ideas too, because they can take us into some really uncomfortable questions. I deeply believe our souls came here to gain experience and knowledge. I also really like what you said about your mtMRCA series. Trying to imagine what everyday life meant for people 150,000-200,000 years ago, when safety and basic needs were such a constant concern, really puts our own worries into perspective. It must be fascinating to write from that point of view. I will read it.
Oh thanks! I do hope you like it. It is so fun and intriguing to try putting myself in their bare feet! (we hadn’t started wearing footwear as an automatic function of our attire yet.)
Can you believe the wheel didn’t come into overall use either until lots of Millenia after our mtMRCA lived?)
Agriculture which started the whole violence and 7 deadly sins of human dysfunction, didn’t begin until 10-13000 years ago. “historians” call that ancient history!
Good heavens that is just a couple minutes in comparison to the actual span of years the homo sapiens species appeared on the planet. Every bit as intelligent and capable of reasoning as we are today, but without the inventions of technology as it developed throughout the planet.
Thanks so much again. It would be very cool if you could restack and or share it too. Appreciate your commenting.
I kept coming back to the line about the scholarship forms staying folded in the bag because hope can feel scarier than disappointment. That felt very true. A lot of people talk about hard work, but not enough about the moment before you even let yourself try. The mother saying, “Don’t reject yourself before life has the chance to answer,” felt like the heart of the piece to me. It makes me think how often a small push from one person can change the whole direction of a life.
I really like that you picked up on that part. The moment before we try can sometimes be harder than the work itself, because trying means allowing ourselves to hope, and hope makes disappointment feel possible.
Sometimes we don’t need someone to solve things for us - we just need one person who believes we should give ourselves a chance. A small push at the right moment can really change the direction of a life. ❤️
This piece really stays with you — the detail that lands hardest is the father keeping that old biscuit tin of bills and payslips just because "I survived them." There's something so quietly powerful about honoring struggle without romanticizing it, and about how much of what mattered most in that life never showed up on a bank statement. Beautifully done. Carried with care!
“I survived them” says so much without needing to explain everything he went through. I also wanted to show that a life can’t really be measured by what appears on a bank statement.
Some of the things that give our lives value leave no financial record at all. I’m really glad you carried that part with you. ❤️
Heart touching article. I could imagine each and every scene vividly while reading. As an author if you can spark a readers imagination, you have arrived.
Saved this article. One of those which deserves re reading.
Thank you so much. That genuinely means a lot to me. ❤️
I think one of the most beautiful things a story can do is allow the reader to step inside it and experience the moments rather than simply read about them. So knowing you could vividly imagine the scenes is a wonderful compliment.
And saving it for a reread… that’s probably one of the nicest things a writer can hear. Some pieces reveal something different when we return to them at another point in our lives.
This was such an incredibly written article! I love how you took your time building on the story and then the reflection really brought it all together. The one thing that I thought about is the fact that no person deserves more than another and yet life hands everyone a different story. If I am privileged enough to have more, it doesn’t make me better or more deserving than the one that lives (as you described) in poverty. And actually, in this scenario, you presented someone who had so much more than many who are privileged because (and I think this was your point), money—as the song says—can’t buy you love, or any of those beautiful relationships that you described in the story! This was brilliant. Really! So thought provoking and full of wisdom!
Thank you so much for such a thoughtful reflection. ❤️
Yes, that was very much at the heart of what I was trying to explore. We are all handed different circumstances, but those circumstances don’t determine our worth or make one person more deserving than another.
I also really liked your point about privilege. Having more materially doesn’t necessarily mean having more of what makes life meaningful. Love, friendship, connection, and a sense of belonging can’t be measured by what we have in the bank.
Sometimes we look at someone else’s life and assume they have everything, when we simply can’t see what is missing beneath the surface. And sometimes the person we assume has the least may actually have some of the things we value most.
I’m so glad the story and reflection brought those questions up for you. Thank you for reading it so deeply and for adding such an important perspective to the conversation. 🌿❤️
Thank you so much for these beautiful words. ❤️ “Supratitude” is such a lovely expression - I may have to borrow that one!
I’m deeply grateful that my writing reached you in this way. I write from the things I experience, question, learn, and feel, so knowing that something found its way to your heart is incredibly meaningful to me.
Thank you for being here and for sharing such beautiful energy in return. 🙏🏻✨
Thank you so much... it means a lot to me. If you would like to read more like these, I publish these kind of articles once a month in the section "Why this life".
What I loved best about your writing is the reflection. So many do not take the time to think about their thinking. That is where, in my mind d, wisdom lies and grows you. May those reading reflect upon their own life.
Thank you for this. ❤️ I think you’ve captured something that matters so much to me - taking the time to think about our own thinking. We can move through so much of life without ever stopping to ask why we think, feel or respond the way we do.
For me, that pause is where a lot of the learning happens. I love the idea that the piece might encourage someone to stop for a moment and reflect on their own life rather than simply take my words and move on. That would mean a lot to me. 💕
I wanted to let you know I included your post here in my Weekly Roundup! I hope it blesses you as much as this article blessed me. Here is the link if you’d like to check it out: https://fiztrainer.substack.com/p/what-stayed-with-me-week-of-august-903
I love doing these hypotheticals. I mostly think about why would a person decide to come to Earth to be Hitler or Trump or that snaky Steven Miller. UGH, but I end up really admiring their willingness to experience the hatred and disapprobation so the rest of us can have the experience of living under tyranny and prejudice, racism, being "less than," subject to murder just because of race, religion, skin color. I am currently writing a series about our mitochondrial most recent common ancestor, (mtMRCA) from the POV of the people living in Africa 150000-200000 years ago. It really stretches my horizons to always be thinking how they lived scrabbling for safety, security, basic needs every minute of every day when we live and bemoan our fate in the middle of so much abundance, Here's a link to the first 8 episodes of The Common Thread: https://virginialynns.substack.com/p/do-you-know-we-are-all-family-the?r=ql3sy
I love these kinds of ideas too, because they can take us into some really uncomfortable questions. I deeply believe our souls came here to gain experience and knowledge. I also really like what you said about your mtMRCA series. Trying to imagine what everyday life meant for people 150,000-200,000 years ago, when safety and basic needs were such a constant concern, really puts our own worries into perspective. It must be fascinating to write from that point of view. I will read it.
Oh thanks! I do hope you like it. It is so fun and intriguing to try putting myself in their bare feet! (we hadn’t started wearing footwear as an automatic function of our attire yet.)
Can you believe the wheel didn’t come into overall use either until lots of Millenia after our mtMRCA lived?)
Agriculture which started the whole violence and 7 deadly sins of human dysfunction, didn’t begin until 10-13000 years ago. “historians” call that ancient history!
Good heavens that is just a couple minutes in comparison to the actual span of years the homo sapiens species appeared on the planet. Every bit as intelligent and capable of reasoning as we are today, but without the inventions of technology as it developed throughout the planet.
Thanks so much again. It would be very cool if you could restack and or share it too. Appreciate your commenting.
Indeed... I liked it and shared ;)
I kept coming back to the line about the scholarship forms staying folded in the bag because hope can feel scarier than disappointment. That felt very true. A lot of people talk about hard work, but not enough about the moment before you even let yourself try. The mother saying, “Don’t reject yourself before life has the chance to answer,” felt like the heart of the piece to me. It makes me think how often a small push from one person can change the whole direction of a life.
I really like that you picked up on that part. The moment before we try can sometimes be harder than the work itself, because trying means allowing ourselves to hope, and hope makes disappointment feel possible.
Sometimes we don’t need someone to solve things for us - we just need one person who believes we should give ourselves a chance. A small push at the right moment can really change the direction of a life. ❤️
Every day I pick a few posts to read them when the day is done.
This wasn’t just a pastime.
This was great!
That means a lot to me. ❤️ I love the idea of choosing a few posts to read at the end of the day, when everything else gets a little quieter.
And I’m especially glad this one felt like more than just something to pass the time. Thank you for reading it with that kind of attention.
This piece really stays with you — the detail that lands hardest is the father keeping that old biscuit tin of bills and payslips just because "I survived them." There's something so quietly powerful about honoring struggle without romanticizing it, and about how much of what mattered most in that life never showed up on a bank statement. Beautifully done. Carried with care!
Thank you for noticing that detail.
“I survived them” says so much without needing to explain everything he went through. I also wanted to show that a life can’t really be measured by what appears on a bank statement.
Some of the things that give our lives value leave no financial record at all. I’m really glad you carried that part with you. ❤️
You are welcome! I really did! Thanks again for writing this.
Heart touching article. I could imagine each and every scene vividly while reading. As an author if you can spark a readers imagination, you have arrived.
Saved this article. One of those which deserves re reading.
Thank you so much. That genuinely means a lot to me. ❤️
I think one of the most beautiful things a story can do is allow the reader to step inside it and experience the moments rather than simply read about them. So knowing you could vividly imagine the scenes is a wonderful compliment.
And saving it for a reread… that’s probably one of the nicest things a writer can hear. Some pieces reveal something different when we return to them at another point in our lives.
Thank you for reading it so deeply. 🌿❤️💜
Welcome 😊. May you pen down many more such articles.
Yes ❤️ more are coming soon
These kind of articles are new in my publication. And I scheduled them once a month. I hope you can be stand read more ☘️
Yes please share SUPRATITUDE with everyone everywhere
this is the reason it has been created
Spread it wide and far
Keep on keeping on LOVIN and SUPLOVIN (Infinite supreme love SUPLOVE in action in being)
ONE ARE WE
GOD ARE WE
SOURCE ARE WE
This was such an incredibly written article! I love how you took your time building on the story and then the reflection really brought it all together. The one thing that I thought about is the fact that no person deserves more than another and yet life hands everyone a different story. If I am privileged enough to have more, it doesn’t make me better or more deserving than the one that lives (as you described) in poverty. And actually, in this scenario, you presented someone who had so much more than many who are privileged because (and I think this was your point), money—as the song says—can’t buy you love, or any of those beautiful relationships that you described in the story! This was brilliant. Really! So thought provoking and full of wisdom!
Thank you so much for such a thoughtful reflection. ❤️
Yes, that was very much at the heart of what I was trying to explore. We are all handed different circumstances, but those circumstances don’t determine our worth or make one person more deserving than another.
I also really liked your point about privilege. Having more materially doesn’t necessarily mean having more of what makes life meaningful. Love, friendship, connection, and a sense of belonging can’t be measured by what we have in the bank.
Sometimes we look at someone else’s life and assume they have everything, when we simply can’t see what is missing beneath the surface. And sometimes the person we assume has the least may actually have some of the things we value most.
I’m so glad the story and reflection brought those questions up for you. Thank you for reading it so deeply and for adding such an important perspective to the conversation. 🌿❤️
You’re so welcome! It is such an impactful and really important piece! I’m so glad you shared it!
Food for the soul conveyed thru this exquisite heartcentered inspiring and insightful writing...simply beautiful
Infinite supreme gratitude SUPRATITUDE to you for you
Thank you so much for these beautiful words. ❤️ “Supratitude” is such a lovely expression - I may have to borrow that one!
I’m deeply grateful that my writing reached you in this way. I write from the things I experience, question, learn, and feel, so knowing that something found its way to your heart is incredibly meaningful to me.
Thank you for being here and for sharing such beautiful energy in return. 🙏🏻✨
This article is wholesome and most beautiful thing I have read today 💗🫠
Thank you so much... it means a lot to me. If you would like to read more like these, I publish these kind of articles once a month in the section "Why this life".
My pleasure ❣️ and I would love to read your article , I will look forward to it 🌺
Nice article.
Thank you 🙏