Living apart from the ghosts of scarcity and so called success.
- Barkus

- May 17, 2025
- 1 min read
We have been conditioned to operate from a position of lack, scarcity, fear, competition, greed, obligation, shame, and guilt.
We were taught to measure our worth against each other, to guard what little we believed we had, and to chase the illusion that more would finally mean enough.
The world whispered scarcity into our bones before we could form the word “enough” from our hungry little mouths.
We learned to love with conditions, to give with strings, to speak only if it would earn us safety or a salary.
Even our dreams were filtered through the lens of success, not liberation.
We played zero sum games ignoring the truth that the sum of us makes us greater than the sum of one alone.
We became fluent in self-doubt, in self centered fear, in shame and silence, in striving without rest, in apologizing for existing in wholeness.
But this is not the truth of who we are. Beneath the layers of programming and performance, something wild and ancient remains unbroken.
It pulses with freedom, with love that asks nothing in return, with peace that does not depend on circumstance.
We were made to overflow, not to hoard.
We were born to collaborate, not to compete.
We were shaped by the hands of abundance, not the hungry ghosts of scarcity…..
And through the landscape of memory, it is time to remember.