Shifting Slowly

If we are seriously too blind to see what is going on or too dependent on this world to fall into the trap of fear and anger, then we lose the battle.

There is a war. There has always been a war, since the dawn of time, of good and evil. You can not at all choose one without admitting there is another side. The thing is, when you accept that there are 2 sides, then you can begin to win.

There is no light without darkness.

This world is in a state of complete darkness. The wolves are dressed in sheep’s clothing and the wool is to being pulled over our eyes daily.

You can choose though. Free will is still on your side. Remember though that with free will we can not cancel out consequences-good or bad. Every action as a reaction.

You can choose to fall into the lies and the anger and the hate and fear causing you to rise in violence.

Or you can choose to listen, decide they are lies, that they don’t have your back and rise in unison and go against the liars and call them out for who they are and move against the grain.

When has violence ever been the solution? When did battle and lives lost ever bring solace and peace? All its ever done is bring more violence, more sadness, more hate, more retaliation, more divide.

But how, you ask, without bloodshed? How will they listen if we don’t show them how serious we are by using our fists?

The same way we’ve always dealt with ignorance; educating it and if they still don’t understand, then willfully choose to walk away.

Why must we prove our points? When did this become the norm?

Social media has made it so we are allowed to share every miniscule thing that passes through our minds and make it visible to the outer world; friend or not. It’s made it so easy for us to literally share A. Damn. Day. about All. Things. We don’t even need a response in words. One click of the ‘Like’ button and we’ve got a fan club. A “right” to our opinions and to share them and to then bully others into trying to believe us because if not, they can “defriend” us.

None of this is human and again, if you are too blind to not see this, too blind or so disconnected from humanity to not allowing yourself to put an end to all this anger and hate and go against the grain and SPEAK. THE. FUCK. UP. even from way in the back of the room, then you are losing the battle and walking further into darkness.

Speaking up does not mean, yelling your point. It means, educating those that are spewing lies and then choosing to say, you have your opinion, I have mine. It does not mean arguing or bullying your way in. It also means, educating yourself. Our opinions and beliefs are not facts, remember that. We all have a right to our opinion but we also have the right to ask to be heard and be open minded to listening. We also have the right to disagree and still hold a place for others’ opinions. But all in all, what needs to never be taken away and should always hold true is humanity, compassion, empathy, love, understanding. The things we as humans were created with and seek in others, we too must give in return. And holding those things allows connection. It allows us to go back to the very thing we all seek-human connection. To be seen. To be noticed. That’s what this whole battle of the world is about-to be heard, seen, noticed. It’s a basic human need. We all seek it.

This world has grown more and more into the belief of instant gratification. If it’s not instant or convenient, we don’t want it. We want all things, now. If now is not an option, then it means nothing to us. No time to waste. We don’t like to wait because waiting means to sit with yourself and sitting with yourself means pausing, pausing means staying still, staying still means not moving, not moving means not busy, not busy means not producing, not producing means not contributing, not contributing means no one sees us, no one seeing us means we have no meaning, having no meaning means we have no purpose, having no purpose means we are non-existent, non-existent means we are not living and not living means the ultimate thing we never want to be; dead; physically and internally.

All our lives we aspire to live but we’ve botched up the entire meaning to that. Living does not mean to figure out why you are here, your purpose, your role. Living means just that; live. Why have we complicated this? It means to be grateful every morning our eyes open and we have breath in our lungs and to say; great, a brand new day, bring it! We have been so bogged down by this belief that the grander material things in life will make us happy and in that scheme of things we’ve chased goals instead of dreams. We’ve checked things off a list instead of discovering things as we go about. And in it all, we’ve lost ourselves as humans.