How have your values evolved over the past five years?
It blows my mind that it has been five years since 2020. I feel like our entire society, if not the whole world, has been in a perpetual state of crisis and recovery from the last crisis over these five years.
I feel like it was really easy to put my values on hold during Crisispalooza, but they have become more relevant than ever in the last six months. And I want to be clear, this is not a political statement. I mean this on a deeply personal level. I realized that I had gone too far astray and I’ve been fighting to reel myself back in from the dark places I ended up.
If anything, I am coming out of all this with my values feeling more important than ever. This world needs more kindness, compassion, openness, and creative activity. Again, I mean me. I need to bring those things to the world.
Do I wish there were more kind, compassionate, creative problem-solving going on in the world at large? Yes. But here’s one thing the last five years has underlined, circled, and drawn arrows pointing to: I can’t control other adults and their choices. I can control my choices and my reactions, and that’s it.
The Mia Experiment 