Context.

Have you ever laughed at something that on the surface may not appear to be funny, and when someone asks you why you are laughing you shrug your shoulders because explaining would be useless?

I love the show titles: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and Only Murders in the Building. I don’t want to attempt to explain why both titles make me laugh in the deep, ticklish part of my belly.

In Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (I’m smile-laughing as I’m typing because of the title and the context of the show), I love when Jerry is with another comedian and they are straight talking, but they both pick up on a humor wave and try to ride it out. Ultimately, both start laughing so hard they can no longer talk, drink, or look at each other – and it was context that sparked it. The unspoken, yet fully understood.

Context is how I understand my world. Context is hard to explain. There’s always more to what is happening.

It seems that in a regulated world, people intuitively allow for context and assume there is often ‘more to the story’ – a broader interpretation. In a regulated world, assuming context would benefit those involved, and contribute to problem solving and sustainable solutions. In a regulated world, context contributes to a shared humanity and inclusive ideals.

Today’s excerpt from Something More. Connecting to the Pulse of a Shared Humanity, also happens to be part of the preface for The Story I Tell. How to make the Age of Disruption work for you. The excerpt includes not only the preface, but also includes the first chapter from part II – keeley.

keeley. was originally posted exactly four years ago.

Reflective Questions:

1. Have you ever had an inner experience in response to being in the presence of another human being, of feeling and seeing the other through a flawless filter, even though external factors would suggest flaws?
2. Have you ever rested in the feeling space of love and possibility? Does it grow, or expand? Are you open to noticing this space and allowing it to just be what it is? If so, are you open to considering this to be the stabilizing energy source of wellbeing?
3. Have you ever considered that if one has never experienced the state of wellbeing (could be named other things such as love or possibility), how does one reference what a balanced state even feels like? Would it be possible that humans feel this open, expansive state, but attribute it to external conditions? If this is true, what does it mean to you? Lastly, what does unconditional love mean to you?