Consciousness is a state of being cognisant, a process of showing a sophisticated understanding of what happens in one's physical or psychological environment and having one react in the right or appropriate manner. We live in a world where people are gradually losing their mental consciousness, each action or decision they make is done without being processed through their perceptive filters, which say or do things that might have a toxic reflection on others, but since it hardly affects them, they see no reason why they cannot do it. Lack of compassion and consideration is one of the biggest heights of mental incapacity.
For example, take a look at governance in many African countries. One of the reasons why people choose to still stay in power irrespective of their incompetence and failure is because of the lack of empathy. Another reason why they take on leadership position should be because of their drive to enact change, but should in case anything goes wrong, it's expected of them to hand over the rein to another person to continue, but because of lack of consciousness, their premeditated choice of lack of awareness, makes them choose to serve themselves; their pockets, and ambitions.
When we're aware of certain events and occurrences in our lives and the lives of others, it should move us to exhibit some human emotions. This means should, in reality, some are ruthless, and sometimes this ruthlessness emanates from having terrible childhood, maybe an abusive father. Sometimes, most of the people who exhibit toxicity and power are those who were powerless against some harsh treatments being meted out to them. However, being powerless is a motivation to attain power.
Some people struggle to attain wealth and affluence not because it is what they want in life, but because they were products of abusive parents, or because money was a tool that was used to maltreat them as young people. They were subdued by power and unfair intoxication, and sometimes they spend their lives picking on others, especially since the people who made them feel that way as kids might not be alive anymore. By so doing, it's easier for such people to lose their consciousness, the funny thing is that they might do so without realizing the rabbit hole they're drowning in.
Anger, sadness, empathy, or anxiety are human emotions that act as feedback to occurrences, this is why it's important to understand the concept of self-scrutiny. Everyone is capable of scrutiny, but most of the time, we find it difficult to relate it to ourselves. Scrutiny is what we seldom do because when people feel right in their disposition, it's normal and natural for them to think they're right, but feeling right is different from being right. One of the best ways to show consciousness is to scrutinize ourselves from time to time, instead of dwelling on the wrongness or rightness of another person, how about ourselves?
Have we taken time to carefully check our actions, weigh them without sentiments and see if this examination would warrant us to take a different course of action? I think self-exaltation is one of the things that prevents self-scrutiny. Some people unknowingly exalt themselves, creating mental importance in their personalities. This makes them feel a sense of affluence, it becomes difficult for them to rightly access themselves because of truth, self-assessment can only be attained by a human being whose level of emotions is balanced. Some people do not check their actions because they feel there's nothing wrong with their course of action, while this might be true, it cannot be completely true......(to be continued)
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