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So, you want to be a Pagan. Well, welcome to the 10,432nd article telling you how. Well, not really, but it sounds good, right? So many people out there willing to tell you just how you can become the person you want to be. Only, we can’t. No one really can. Oh, you can learn things from people, and even walk along the same path for a long time, but when it comes to believing and being something, everything is internal, or it isn’t there at all.
Rule number 1: Remember that everyone is different. These rules may not work for you. If they don’t, please do not hold me responsible. Just find another self-help article. Better yet, write one yourself. Rule number 2: Look inside yourself. Evaluate your life. Figure out what you like about your life, and what you don’t. What do you like about your personality, and what makes you uncomfortable. Rule number 3: Look at your friends. People can be great mirrors, especially when they don’t realize it. However, you have to really scratch beyond the surface to get the truth. It’s a bit like finding the peanut butter in the peanut butter cup… it’s there, but you have to actually bite into it. (Note, I am not advocating running around biting people without cause. They tend to not like that, well, some do, but I digress.) Rule number 4: Don’t allow yourself to get bogged down by too many rules. I know it seems so easy to just do as you’re told, and to hell with actually applying some deep thought to what you are being spoon-fed, but Believing/Being requires a lot of set up time inside your own head. Until and unless the human race reaches coadunation, what is in other people’s heads won’t really help you much. Rule number 5: There isn’t a rule 5. Like I said, can’t get bogged down in rules. So, now you have the rules, what next? You try them out. Explore yourself, try not to break any laws in the process though, I hear jail is a good place for introspection, but do you really want to try it out? And like I said, if you have trouble, try another method. Ask for help, learn from people, and then take what you learn and figure out which parts of it really belong in your life. If you are lucky (or unlucky, depending on one’s point of view) enough to find the answers quickly, the congratulations, you can move on to the next step, which is actually the same as this one. Oh, didn’t you know? Believing/Being is pretty much a lifelong cycle of finding the Truth, and then searching for more, and on, and on. Pretty nifty eh?
Helen |