I sit next to you and listen to you speak. I want to jump in and scream
“You’re wrong – how can you think that?”
but I just listen.
And realize the enemy isn’t really each other, it’s a lack of understanding, a lack of sitting down with those who aren’t like you, and really listening.
Misinformation, propaganda, lies, not sure what to believe anymore, maybe just maybe, we can sit with a person and listen to their heart, their needs. We can gain an understanding instead of being so quick to hate, them vs. us.
It doesn’t get us anywhere, but more people dead, more cities destroyed, more chaos, more destruction. The way things are going just doesn’t make sense, we are destroying each other, and for what? What is the end goal?
Because this hasn’t worked for the whole time we’ve been at it (the whole time we’ve been here) so maybe just maybe please can we trying something else.
I know my heart is broken even from afar and I can’t even image the hurt those who are near feel from these tragedies. Needs to stop.
Can you imagine how wonderful this place would be if we could all exist without fear of one another? How freeing that would be.
2016-12-22