Been thinking lately……..you too? It seems clear that the feeling one has when reacting to the down-heartedness of another with sincere encouragement is the actual energy that fuels us all. In other words, the sincere encouragement we offer each other, that same sincerity, typically reserved for spouses or off-spring, can, and should be projected out to those in the street. This is the community energy we need right now.
Let me guess……blah…blah… you think. Yet when considered, this self-centered, over consumptive, bloated cultural labyrinth we have created will be a tough ship to steer off its current course. And for those of you who think……well….. even the most invested patriots know that things will not return to anything resembling what we have become so accustomed to and so increasingly dependent upon.
If that is a given at this point it begs the question “what will it become?” The more important question seems to be “who are we apart from the current culture?” You only have to remember the moments in your life when you have “stepped away,” either while camping with others, or spending time in foreign lands, or walking a city street looking compassionately on others with little or no direction for yourself. Yeah….it’s about getting outside yourself and your “wants.”
“Easier done than said.” Yes, actually easier to do than to explain. The reason is that we are wired for this by nature, actually drawn to the community collective historically, but our current hard drive is programmed for individual progress and personal accumulation. All designed to sell each of us our “own” chain saw and a hair dryer.
Things change slowly, but always change first in the thought process. Ideas become thoughts, which enter out conversation, which encourage our leaders, both corporate and political, to change us. Perhaps we should just allow our behavior to direct the vision we have for “the good life.”
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