lately, there seems to be something in the air. Is it the winter blues? Is it desperation, fear that our happiness is being ripped out from under us through an unstable economy? I read a few sentences in an article the other day about marriage and how it does not hold the same importance as it did. Duh! How could it? We are no longer limited to card parties and neighborhood camaraderies. There are so many options. We are bombarded with options. Options slipping us numbers in bars, options seeking us out on the endless websites. Options blue toothing their information to us. It's overwhelming! If we weren't a society worried about something better coming along in the past....we are now. We have access to everyone, everywhere. So where does that leave us?
It looks to me like a vicious cycle. We want to be in love and settled down. We want to have super bowl parties and meet friends for dinner. We want to travel, pay our bills, raise our children. We want trust and understanding. We want it to be fair. The problem is it is not fair. No matter how nice we are, there is someone making us question ourselves. No matter how honest we are there will always be someone who does not believe you. No matter how hard we work, there will always be an emergency that keeps us from complete financial stability. Up and down, back and forth, sometimes it feels like we will never land. In the midst of this turbulence, we beat ourselves up. Learn to hate and resent ourselves, some turn to demise, some even further to suicide. The pain is too much to bear, so they end it.
No matter how many times I try to think of alternative ways to fix things there is one option we pretend not to see. This is the option to find inner peace. The option to face the multitude of voices yelling out to us, buy this and you will feel better. Live here and you will be the envy of all your friends. Drive this and you have arrived. You have to look this way, act that way, think another way and still maintain a sense of self. IMPOSSIBLE!!! As 2012 nears I find myself thinking, what would it be like if all technology was wiped out. If we had to return to a simple way of life. Growing our own food, coming together as a community to stay alive. What if the end means everything as we know it will change? Who is prepared for that? We would no longer sit in a room full of people, who are looking at their cell phones. We would probably be out working the fields, or hunting or building shelter. Together.
There would be dinner by campfires and discussions about how to rebuild and make it better. Families would become one again, because let's face it once we are all stripped of the glamour and glitz...all the "options" would disappear. At least this is how I hope it will be, of course it could be and never ending version of the book of Eli, where the strong win and the weak lose. Who wants that?
So challenge everyone to love themselves, love themselves so much that others misery cannot penetrate your energy. Emit love, inhale love, walk love, talk love, think love, eat love. When ugliness bears its rotten teeth, smile upon it with love. Conflict requires two forces to sustain itself, don't be the second force. In fact, everyone take a marker, sharpie, eyeliner, crayon whatever...go to your bathroom mirror and write in big words...I LOVE YOU! Draw a smiley face, flowers, fireworks, a rainbow, whatever. Just make sure that every morning when you look in the mirror you are reminded of one simple thing. LOVE YOURSELF!
It looks to me like a vicious cycle. We want to be in love and settled down. We want to have super bowl parties and meet friends for dinner. We want to travel, pay our bills, raise our children. We want trust and understanding. We want it to be fair. The problem is it is not fair. No matter how nice we are, there is someone making us question ourselves. No matter how honest we are there will always be someone who does not believe you. No matter how hard we work, there will always be an emergency that keeps us from complete financial stability. Up and down, back and forth, sometimes it feels like we will never land. In the midst of this turbulence, we beat ourselves up. Learn to hate and resent ourselves, some turn to demise, some even further to suicide. The pain is too much to bear, so they end it.
No matter how many times I try to think of alternative ways to fix things there is one option we pretend not to see. This is the option to find inner peace. The option to face the multitude of voices yelling out to us, buy this and you will feel better. Live here and you will be the envy of all your friends. Drive this and you have arrived. You have to look this way, act that way, think another way and still maintain a sense of self. IMPOSSIBLE!!! As 2012 nears I find myself thinking, what would it be like if all technology was wiped out. If we had to return to a simple way of life. Growing our own food, coming together as a community to stay alive. What if the end means everything as we know it will change? Who is prepared for that? We would no longer sit in a room full of people, who are looking at their cell phones. We would probably be out working the fields, or hunting or building shelter. Together.
There would be dinner by campfires and discussions about how to rebuild and make it better. Families would become one again, because let's face it once we are all stripped of the glamour and glitz...all the "options" would disappear. At least this is how I hope it will be, of course it could be and never ending version of the book of Eli, where the strong win and the weak lose. Who wants that?
So challenge everyone to love themselves, love themselves so much that others misery cannot penetrate your energy. Emit love, inhale love, walk love, talk love, think love, eat love. When ugliness bears its rotten teeth, smile upon it with love. Conflict requires two forces to sustain itself, don't be the second force. In fact, everyone take a marker, sharpie, eyeliner, crayon whatever...go to your bathroom mirror and write in big words...I LOVE YOU! Draw a smiley face, flowers, fireworks, a rainbow, whatever. Just make sure that every morning when you look in the mirror you are reminded of one simple thing. LOVE YOURSELF!
Beautiful, true and real.
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