Clean slate

We are all born clean slates and fundamentally good. What goes into us as we are raised are ideas, myths, dictates and influences which color our perception of ourselves and of the world. Sometimes much of this must be undone because we realize it was plainly wrong since it went against basic truths. So much of the world operates on conjecture and even our own identities are sometimes constructed so we don't need to look too deeply inward.

We watch a video where a person expresses an opinion as if it were fact and it jars because we understand it to be false. Yet for them it is a fundamental truth which has been sifted through some personal prism.

To understand ourselves and our natures requires a process where we examine possible myth. We may have created as narrative as panacea and should ask ourselves if we have been honest in our self assessment.

Everything we consider should be passed through a critical eye if we are to find the truth lying underneath.

Absolutely everything.