What is it that makes people fear each other or not get along with each other or even get along yet not try to understand each other?
I have seen many conflicts between people recently and I am concerned that this level of fear that the country has been shoveled into is causing us to turn on ourselves.
Sure, it has always been an "us against them" mentality for the most part in this country but even now it is a huge blister ready to boil over into the streets.
And it is not just the mindless sheeple that this is happening to. It is happening to many of my friends. Many of them are cutting themselves off from the rest of us and it has a lot to do with the state of things.
Now, what to do?
Love.
Yes, this is one of those kinds of posts.
We are ALL connected, regardless of how you feel about it or how much you deny it. If something bad happens to someone it happens to all of us. Deny it if you will but it is this fundamental idea that makes it imperative that you do something good to someone else.
Love your neighbor better than you would love yourself.
Start small. Start with your immediate family and friends. Do a kind thing for a stranger, like hold the door open for them. Acknowledge their existence.
The easiest thing you can do is smile. It is infectious. Smile at the check out person, the bagger, someone who just cut you off in traffic. Let a pedestrian cross the street even if you are in a rush. Let someone out at the busy intersection even if the person behind you protests, then smile and wave nicely to them and keep going. Love your friends and family with conviction and passion. It is what makes us human.
It takes very little time to be courteous or pleasant or even civil to another person.
So the next time you have fear or are angry, just remember that your fear and anger is projected out to the rest of us. Try to absorb the good energies that I and many people like me are sending out.
Fear not, anger not, worry not.
Just know that those things happen and let them go and absorb the good that is out there.
Ok, that was pretty happy-go-lucky of me but it is important to me that people understand that we can change the world around us in a positive way if only we recognize ways to do it.
Cheers.
2 comments:
Great post. My Mom has always said "it doesn't cost you anything to be nice to others." She's done it for much of her life, and taught me to be the same way. Then when she got in her horrible car accident, she had literally hundreds of people, even people she barely knew, or people she had never met (who heard about her through her friends and acquaintances etc) sending good wishes, cards, prayers, concern, etc. I'm convinced it helped in her recovery. Not that she was nice just in order to reap the rewards later, but it was an amazing thing to witness.
Peace,
Nikki
It is a matter of practice with love.
I am not talking about being selfless, because, as you are well aware, that is not loving yourself enough or at all.
What I am talking about is as you love more, the greater capacity you have to love. It is only limiting if you are not also working to love yourself.
It is cyclical where, as you learn to love more and better, you are better able to have and give love.
Also, love and give are not synonymous unless you choose that path, which I agree, will quickly "use up" your supply.
As Nikki said (well her Mom said ;) ): "it doesn't cost you anything to be nice to others."
And that love can be given freely all the time.
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