Have you done the work? Have you figured it out yet, how you plan to change the world? Love begins at home, where they say "the heart is". I see so many of us feeding into the media's negativity and neglecting to look within ourselves to quell the internal battles we refuse to admit we are indeed fighting. I'm all here for outward violence, something must be done. But at its end, what do we have to show for it but more trauma from already damaged folk. Who's willing to sit with themselves and actually do the work? You cannot make a better world without first making the one person you are responsible for, better. You.
When last have you sat to just "be". How many things are you grateful for today? I've lived hostility and I know what it breeds. So excuse me if I bring out my inner buddha and decide to meditate everytime I witness something that disturbs my peace. What's so wrong with minding my own business and paying my energies of light and love to the universe?
Do what thou wilt, but hurt none.
I wish we'd all take some steps back, look inside of ourselves and consciously decide to heal; find the true roots of our pain and deal with the trauma of our childhood, ancestors and the collective trauma of humanity. I understand that we did not just get to this point of mass heaviness overnight. Centuries of oppression does not just hurt our governmental systems. It damages our hearts, our souls and our bloodlines. And deep inside, fight it as we may, we all know that the only way to combat such a disease is to go inward and root out our OWN negatives, work on our own selves. Because after we fight in the streets, we will still remain unhealed.
After all is said and done, these three things last: faith, hope and love. I long for the day, the human race, can return to its natural state. We can view every single violence fuelled social media post and that will be all that we are doing, viewing and reposting. And somehow, we've managed to tell ourselves that we are doing this great deal by hashtagging our lives away to make our posts more "visible", yet our own flaws remain invisible to us, almost as if we are thankful for the distraction that is social unrest. We can have all the knowledge in the world, but what is knowledge, without it's application? Wisdom. What are you doing to make a change?
