Dear Diary,
About service. Once our modest and small institution had a director who in a television program answered a question about the number of employees with magical words – “we don’t have a single worker. All of us serve.” I remember what a strong motivational effect I felt back then. And I probably would have successfully never recalled either those words heard some five years ago or that motivational effect, if yesterday while relaxing in the colorful YouTube screen I hadn’t clicked on a video whose title, among a multitude of other words, contained the words “flow state”. There, the fellow mentioned that one of the main keys to the “flow” state (that state when suddenly work goes like through butter, when everything you do works without any hitches, criticisms or analyses, when observing great results brings great well-being and observing great well-being again brings great results) is precisely sincere, unconditional service. Service to the world. Service to life. Service to the moment. Service to what you do. The fact that looking at a task as work breeds in us our beautiful ego with all its beautiful “but why me, why now and why for so little?”, which becomes that concertina-wired concrete wall inside us separating us from the easy and effective “flow” state.
It’s pleasant to observe that even saying the word “serve” in our heads, we can hear our offended ego awakening – “Oh no! That’s disgusting!” Because the only sphere in which our ego can serve and does so with unspeakable pleasure is service to itself. However, running through public figures whom you respect, whom you admire or somewhat consider your authorities, it becomes obvious that in one sphere or another they simply serve. They serve us, serve the Motherland, serve what they do. That it is precisely this that makes them worthy of admiration, respect or elevation to authorities.
My friend likes to ask – “tell me, what specifically are relationships to you?” And, I believe, today I could confidently answer her question – relationships are sincere and unconditional mutual service to the partner and couple/family needs. To all of them. Even the most intimate ones. Service that introduces relationships into a “flow” state requiring no other rules.
So if in life there’s too much heaviness, too much negativity, too much anxiety and too much doubt – perhaps it’s enough to simply look at everything through this lens, perhaps it’s enough to simply ask yourself – “is there enough service in me?” – and then use it as that magical key to lightness, peace and wisdom.
p.s. the conversation is, of course, about service to light and goodness. Because here I recalled those isolated cases when in your life in the form of a client there appears a passerby saying “I am evil, darkness and unspeakable stupidity. Now you will serve me and my ego, unconditionally carrying out all my instructions. Why? Because I’ll give you a couple of euros for it!” – in this case, it’s much wiser not to dive into service but simply to press the applicant’s heel against the sidewalk tile and sincerely twist it several times :-). Have a bright weekend! :-)
