I don’t know if I am typical, but recently more and more posts on social media have been rather dispiriting – posts that ‘other’ people, posts about cruelty, posts that make me feel impotent as a citizen and as a human being.
But it signifies something more than a collective need to gripe – it makes me think we have lost sight of what joins us together.
How can we hope to find peace in our world if we don’t even recognise how interconnected it is? And how, as the species doing the worst damage to the planet, and each other, can we hope to find peace when our collective behaviour is the very thing destroying it?
We know we are made of the same stuff, right? That we all came from the same cosmic source. So why do we look for difference? Why do we look to dominate instead of coexist? I’m not just talking humans either, but our need to dominate all life on earth.
I am always saddened to see pictures of abuse, neglect, despair. I sometimes feel that it would be better to stop looking. Stop reading newspapers or watching documentaries. Stop knowing.
But to do that would mean I stopped thinking about what is wrong, and if I stop thinking about what is wrong, I stop thinking about what I can do to redress the balance. And if we all did that, we’d never have peace.
I recently posted a Desmond Tutu quote:
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
which is going to be my mantra going forward. Every little good we do is a chance to redress the balance.
Let’s get some weight behind peace.
EJ
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