If you’re reading this maybe you stumbled into a strange “study group”. Maybe, like me, you stumbled out because your cult-coma snapped. Perhaps you “awakened” to the exploitation because of “OSG/school/the study” hijacking your holidays with its Christmas Party.
I don’t post much here anymore, but this morning I found myself, patiently, and carefully, succeeding at something that usually I suck at – changing mandolin strings.
It motivated me to post a Happy “school”-free holidays message to any reader. When it comes mechanics, I’m clumsy and impatient. I (mostly) hand them to my husband. This morning, I enjoyed a victory: the NO-Bandaid/No bloodshed, new mandolin-strings installation (while he slept)! There are plenty of hilarious YouTube videos about the dreaded, & horrible necessary evil of changing mando strings. Not only did I complete it with nary an F-bomb, it felt almost meditative.
“Where,” I wondered, “did my sudden patience come from?” The answer: I’m rested. I’m calm. I’m clear. I don’t allow self-appointed overlords/ladies to micromanage my existence anymore. There are no “teachers” demanding that I “move in triple time,” (never worked for me, btw), secretly collect cardboard to build sets, or cut out snowflakes, or scam free Christmas trees: my pre-frontal cortex is now clear and online free of cult clutter.
My seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years are mine to choose what I do with them. This is freedom. Nothing feels better.
Our dear leader, Robert (now kicked out, I hear), used to lecture us about gratitude during the holidays. “Be grateful for each moment, each breathe,” said the grifter and fraudster hijacking our moments, our breathes, our time and energy, for his self-aggrandizement and enrichment. (Our $350, monthly “tuition” didn’t hurt him too badly). He would gaze off into the distance, as though contemplating the beyond.
Well, Robert, I got the memo! Yay, me!! I breathe in and out each cult-free moment, every holiday season. I’m endlessly grateful to be free of your dog & pony show: how to “evolve” OSG style. I’ve joined “the others”, the “caterpillars”, deVos. I contemplated “school” dictates and rules and broke them all.
My life now feels like MY life. My holidays, mine to celebrate, or ignore, if I so choose.
So, thanks for the “schooling”. Nothing has made freedom sweeter then leaving your mental prison!
Cheers, fellow “Dis-gruntleds”!! Here’s to your sweet, cult-free holidays, and New Year!