My first day at The Maya Centre and a look into the idea of truly doing good
I have spent my first day at The Maya Centre, as part of winning person of the year at my company I was gifted the week to support this amazing charity and £2,500 to provide them will all new therapy chairs. I took part in their first-ever fitness and fun day which was sensational and rewarding, to say the least. The Maya Centre more like a woman's retreat is a beautiful charity working to support women's mental health, provide free counselling and support as well as raise awareness of neurodiversity and provide psychoeducation. Today left me in awe. Their stunning hub based in the London borough of Islington is a home-like, woman's only sanctuary. As I taught an Afrobeat dance class today and watched the women smile and let go, alongside amazing ladies who work day in and day out to give back to this community, it reminded me that goodness truly does exist. The Maya Centre solely reiterates the idea that to be helpful and truly impactful to others is to truly provide what they need, not what we want for them.
Today, I wanted to discuss a topic I've had so many conversations about recently. It's the idea that good and bad don't truly exist and it stems from an idea that you have probably already heard. All people do bad things, right? It's the reality that every person on this earth has probably told a lie but then expects complete honesty from others. Or the idea that we hold people to some things that can be considered morally bad but not all. Lying, to me, is the type of bad thing that is considered normalised so in terms of bad actions it wouldn't hold anywhere near as much weight as cheating on your partner and I believe this stems from the idea of intention. In this blog post I'd like to dissect how to live in the hopes that doing good isn't enough, intention and impact go hand in hand.
Have you ever called someone a liar, knowing in the same breath that everyone lies? We expect even the best of people to be perfect but in reality, no one is. We are all driven by different motivations, with different intentions expecting it to have different impacts, a dictator may believe they are acting with good intentions but then fail to acknowledge the devastating impact their actions may have. So when you do something with the best of intentions remember that this may not translate to those whom it impacts; they cannot see our motivations only the implications and actions. Sometimes acting with only intention means we do not truly do right by others but ourselves. This can be very painful for those of a caring, empathetic and loving nature who face the reality that we can want the best for someone, we can do what we believe is good. But our version of good isn't the same as someone else's because good and bad is subjective and we constantly attempt to make it objective. When we truly act with love for others outside of ourselves, good and bad seize to even matter.
I end this with a beautiful quote from a woman who struggled herself and overcame
“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”
J.K. Rowling
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