Thursday, December 3, 2015

Seasonal Thoughts Over Tea

Hey everyone, I feel the need to make this statement especially in the face of recent tragedies and the talking points that have come out of it all.
No generation had everything all right or wrong. At no time has society been easily painted with one brush or one color. In respect to each other, please remember that when you use trite generational oversimplifications you dismiss the good things achieved or accomplished by each group. Nothing before or after us will be the same as we experience.
What we can do, instead of pointing fingers at each other to say that someone holds more culpability than we, is start moving FORWARD rather than looking back. Looking backwards will only make us repeat the same mistakes and fall over the same stumbling block time after time. And instead of walking alone, let’s try to walk together. Let’s allow ourselves to be open to dialogue, be ready to LISTEN rather than put energy into being heard. Try to remember your kindergarten teacher’s favorite idiom, if you cannot say something nice… Better yet, just think before you speak, listen to what you’ve heard and give it a moment of thought before you say something unkind or without proper thought.
Researching your own point of view and supporting facts, as well as looking into the facts from others is also useful; not for use as “ammo” but so you can understand your own views and those of others without relying on “rhetoric” and “talking points” alone.
Let’s be better than the people causing death, destruction, and terror. Let’s show them that they don’t have it right, that the world isn’t cringing in terror of them. Reach out to your fellow people and SEE them. By seeing them, recognize their humanity, smile at them and acknowledge them, be kind to them not for any other reason than they are alive and you are happy that they are. The “Golden Rule” only works when we treat others like ourselves, but as I can see it, we don’t really treat ourselves well either. So love yourself. Love your flaws and faults. Celebrate your “beauty” (inner and outer). But don’t keep looking inward, because we are more than just this shell we inhabit. We are our experiences and our actions. When we act with dignity, we know how to treat another with dignity. When we love ourselves, we can love others.
I’m sick and tired of seeing hate, fear, and anger being the only language we speak. Those are forms of speech too, but they don’t solve anything. Our outrage is warranted but outrage does nothing without action and action to HELP is better than action to HARM.
In this holiday season, in this time my tradition calls the dark days we are given time to look within in order to be reborn with the sun. So let us reflect on ourselves and our actions and MOVE FORWARD as better people, and become lights in the darkness, become hope for happier days. Don’t let your anger and fear keep you trapped in the darkness without a light, let yourself reflect the light of the sun, even during the dark days. You may never be as brilliant as the sun, but the moon is breathtaking too and gives soft light to the night in which we walk.

#peace #blessings #darkdays #rebornlight

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