On The Farm we used to talk about social position. We said we weren’t into it. No one had social position on anyone else. But, as in Orwell’s story of another farm, founded on animal equality, was there a declaration that some were more equal than others?
Could it be that social position was our sense of how confident another person was? After all, a confident person didn’t need anyone’s permission to be confident and do strong things, right?
Perhaps we don’t need to stress about the old social position. The only thing wrong with any of us is our worry about what is wrong with us. It’s the only thing anyone ever dis-ed us for and the only thing still in the air, that worry. Nothing succeeded on The Farm like confidence. Nothing succeeds anywhere like confidence.
So, can you be confident by choice? Sure you can. Once you disentangle the worries and find out there’s nothing wrong with you, confidence comes naturally. It’s your heritage.
Watch for the second edition of Sweet Potato Suppers: A Yankee Woman Finds Salvation in a Hippie Village, coming out soon. It will be announced here in my blog about hippies in community and about today’s green living communities and neighborhoods.
