What an easy role to identify with, victimhood. Watch the news, your favorite podcast, or investigate organizations to study being a victim. If your aim is innocent, or maybe you just want to take inventory, you will be shocked by the number of victims you see. People want to gather and protest together in their beliefs in being victims. Don’t take your present view of victimization as the true whole picture. There is more to see.

Recently, I heard a revealing Vernon Howard talk about the subject of victimization. Vernon gave some blunt truths about anyone who believes they are victims. So I decided to put in some effort and work to become more aware of this state that many humans center their whole lives around. The victims cry out unfair, and then name the enemy that is keeping them down. The victims are many out in the world, in fact, The World is Drowning in an Ocean of Victims!

After studying this for a few days, I was shocked to see how many groups exist that believe someone or some other group(s) are keeping them victims. But I also discovered this, which the majority of victims do not want to see. I’m a victim of myself. I enjoy putting on the label of being a victim. Because then I don’t have to make any effort whatsoever to see where I might be fooling myself.

What a blessing it is to see that I am my worst enemy. For now, I can watch my wrong victim reactions, and drop them instantly. I can change my life by exposing victim-like thinking. I don’t have to join the world with its mechanical victim beliefs. All victims are self-prisoners. Real freedom lies outside the borders of victimhood. Live free.