Are you afraid to go above your station?

How many times have you been told not to get above your station? Don't get too big for your boots? Stay at "your level"?

Sometimes this comes from Fathers and Grandfathers (and sometimes the matriarch) who don't want their offspring to venture too far out (or up) and instead stay within the family orbit. If you think of an orbit as a horizontal path with a gravitational pull - if everyone in the family stays in its 'orbit' i.e - at the same horizontal level - then "we are all together". If one member the family were to rise up i.e. become vertically higher, than they're no longer all on the same plane. The "togetherness" is broken. And it can trigger a deep fear that one might leave the orbit altogether.
So staying in your station is often implanted in us from a fear of being left behind. Or being alone. Or to avoid the disappointment of rising above your station only to "fall" back down.

Take a moment to contemplate. Does a part of you believe it's bad or wrong to get above your station? Was this the messaging you received growing up? Who's fear was it? And can you breathe into it and let it go? No judgement, just observation.

One person I'm really glad moved into a different orbit is Amelia Dimoldenberg (@ameliadimz). Throughout lockdown I've devoured her hilarious Chicken Shop Dates. And last week she created a video investigating statues in London. It's exactly what I've been wanting to say - all in a comedic, honest, 8 min video! She asked the right questions, heard the public's responses and correctly highlighted that most of us don't know who we are walking past - so should they be elevated and celebrated? Check it out for yourself here