Personal Revelation paper

I recently had a revelation. It was revealed to me slowly by my friend. Every so often we talk about the world, the government, the problems, society, the president, capitalism etc. A part of my revelation also came from my mother, a woman who spends her life working in an office, when she is really a dancer, all because of the way our country works and how much money we all have to have in order to survive in this city to live a comfortable lifestyle. A personal revelation that I had this year was that if I do not do something now, I will end up being unhappy in my life.



We are always taught to listen to rules. Follow expectations. For myself, the resistance to this revelation was simply ignorance about the world and why certain rules and expectations are the way they are. By learning more from school, people, talking to my friend and seeing my mothers life I was able to realize what kind of society we live in and why I don’t think it’s possible for me, with the knowledge that I have about the world, to just fall in line and be a puppet to ‘the man.’ But this is where my resistance comes back: It is easy for me to say that now, still living at home, not paying my own way in life, but what will happen when I’m in the real world? I’m sure my mother never thought that this would be her life, but then she had me and bills and she wanted things for me and her that couldn’t happen with the salary she made as a dancer. I feel that this is a typical story for so many others and it could easily happen to me, especially because I know my mom is not an ignorant person. It is a tough emotional process to have a revelation and accept it because there is almost always some discomfort. For the particular revelation that I had that I’m talking about the emotional process went something like this:
Ignorance
Eye opening experience
Resistance
Acceptance
Resistance
Acceptance

Most people resist revelation because they don’t want to believe that something they have been taught their whole life is a lie. They don’t want to have to start over, or leave their comfort zones. People just don’t like change. The fact that there is a change happening and you had the option to make that change by accepting something, most people would rather not take the time to do that to put themselves in an uncomfortable situation.
Another huge reason why people resist revelation is because accepting a revelation means accepting that something you thought before was wrong. Based on the competitive nature of humans in general, this is a very hard thing for a lot of people to do.