In addition to being a social creature, the need for privacy exists within all of us. In accordance with this need, the importance of having privacy can no longer be repressed in this hustle era since its lifestyle has caused great anxiety to some extent.
Sacredness is Privacy’s Essence
To understand or to define something a lot better, we need to grasp its essence. So for privacy, the question arises: what is its essence?
From my perspective, the essence of self-privacy is sacredness. It’s neither a mystery nor a secret. Mystery is something that is unknown to us, and a secret most often is hidden because of its negative effect on oneself. So when one doesn’t know nor have a self-privacy, one doesn’t know his or her sacredness.
“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.” Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
Social media has offered us the easiest replicable way based on our social needs. If we are not aware of this, social media is a great tool to degrade our privacy, and we become more ignorant of our own sacredness.
Home and hearth
From social dynamics, we know our place, and from private dynamics, we know our hearth. Both place and hearth are a space for different parts of us. Place is where we stand in order to play our roles and fulfill the social gap, while hearth is a meaningful space for our souls.
Through the simplest way of thinking, we all know that we are more than our bodies. That’s why we ‘create’ philosophical ways of thinking, not only literal thinking. We have acknowledged life is more than concrete things; there is also an abstraction. We don’t just read in order to see the wording structure, but we dwell on their meanings, their abstractions, and their ability to make us feel something within our souls.
When we get involved with something from our souls, we feel at home. More so, hearth is not a house but a home. From the soul’s perspective, we need to feel at home, not only in a house.
Perhaps that’s why, in English as our international language, we are more familiar with the homeless term than the houseless. Though the root word “home” is derived from proto-Germanic.
Privacy Contains Sacredness
When you are aware and know yourself, you’re expanding your knowledge of your sacredness. It’s no longer a mysterious thing for you, nor is it a secret of you. Your vision of yourself and humans will expand. You’ll see that everyone and everything also has its own sacredness. But when you don’t know your sacredness, it’s easier for you to feel unworthy, since you often make mistakes by sharing your sacredness with someone who doesn’t have the right access to it.
In the worst case, you’ll sell your sacredness for free to those who have the same perspective as you. They do not know what sacredness means. So they reject, invalidate, and humiliate your sacredness. And you’ll feel ashamed, rejected, or afraid of yourself as you eliminate your sacredness and conform to their perspective.
Turn Inward To Comprehend Your Privacy
Your primary error is in your own ignorance that stops you from knowing and understanding your sacredness. Thus, you cannot respect your sacredness. Seek within yourself. Know and understand your sacredness, so it’s no longer a mystery for you, and you can stop doing the same mistake and start respecting your own sacredness.
When you know your sacredness, you don’t share it with anyone that you don’t want to access it. But since we are all humans, when you make mistakes by choosing the wrong people, you still know that your mistakes don’t eliminate your sacredness. You make mistakes, that’s it.
No one can take away your sacredness. It’s planted in you. All you need to do is find out, understand, and respect your sacredness enough by setting your own standards of whom you want to share your sacredness with. Thus, you won’t beg or teach anyone how to meet your standards. You decide it with your soul. You understand your choices and are no longer being dictated by outside circumstances.
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