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The three pillars of growth are patience, time and connection. Patience is taught by their self to their self. A process that can take a lifetime to unfold. Some call it acceptance. It is the power within themself to see the present and past within, without expecting anything from the future. The second pillar is time. Time is out of their hands. Time is a given and it is given. It is the present of life. Time is only given once, and from then on it will only run out. They can only influence the experience of time, not the passing of it.
The third pillar of growth is connection. Connection is quite different from the other two, as it requires collectivity. It needs the other in order to exist. The other is in everything around them but most importantly to them, it is in between them. They find it through love, family, neighbors, companions, colleagues and through about anyone which exists in their given time. Some say that connection is the most important pillar as it harnesses enough strength to provide space for the other pillars to evolve.

The day they came into existence, they were touched. Their first experience of connection was touch. They were pushed into this world through touch. They grew and evolved as a result. They experienced time and patience. They grew into themself over the passage of time. But they weren’t prepared for what was to come. The world exists out of many different facets, that all influence the three pillars of growth. How they do so is defined by the individual and their given and created circumstances.
The impact of the material was so incredibly strong. It gave room to their sense of self and expression. It gave them tools to explore and separate themself from their surroundings and those around them. It gave them the possibility of choosing to whom they belonged. Their sense of connection was heavily influenced by this. Now they had the power of choice. Or at least it felt like that. This power seemed like a blessing, but it soon turned against them. It created a barrier between them and their direct access to the pillar of connection. They did not see that the material had evolved into a structure that decided their movement for them, that gave their non dimensional space dimensions. It had created boundaries and separations. It had cut right through connections that were as old as their existence. The material had created hierarchy and this hierarchy forced them to value themself through the tool of comparison. Comparison was toxic and it focussed on the role of the individual as opposed to the role of connection, the collective.
As they grew older in the structures of the material, they began to see themself more and more as an individual. Achievement, pride and success were the standards through which value was found. The pillar of connection that was once viewed as the most important was now defined through interaction tainted by materialism, narcism and simply helpless views on the self. They didn’t know anymore how important connection once was to them. They lost touch.

It might seem like a lost cause or helpless situation. But they were strong and they were meant to be challenged. As growth comes from struggle and reflection. The material was not their enemy, it was simply the reflection of their own responsibility. It was part of them, they were part of it. As the material was the foundation of their physical existence, it was meant to be part of their world. The material was not simply the opposite of their sense of connection, it was actually part of connection itself. It had carried many forms of expression that allowed connection to come into existence. But they wondered, how did the material had turned into the structure that it was today? How had it severed so many connections and isolated them continuously? It had turned a community into restless and searching individuals.
They had learned from experience that the power of the material was an incredibly strong one, but that the solution was not to denounce the power completely, the only way was to find connection within this power. They had seen the value of the other and had realized that life is worth nothing if we do not belong to each other. Radical connection is the goal.