Love Each Other

I really believe in the human race. I believe we are people of great potential and there are so many who astound me as to their wonderful altruism, creativity and absolute desire to show the world what we can be.  I was challenged recently because I was moaning about Government and about people who seem to persistently try to parasitically suck the life from society.  I was challenged because although I moaned, I was asked what, exactly, I did to help and improve society.  I was silenced.

I have done things in the past deemed as charitable and beneficial to society, but I can't say I am particularly altruistic in my day to day living.  It got me thinking though, great acts of charity don't need to be the way of being a useful cog in our society. 

Love, community and communication surely contribute.  I despise the ignorance we nurture.  I am always amazed as to how well The Sun and The Daily Mail sell. People lap up these 'news sources'.  People absorb these ignorant and false sources of information because (in my opinion) lazy and ignorant journalism is easier to stomach than opinion that challenges our worldview.

It is easier to agree with the idea that we are being flooded with blood sucking immigrants than analyse the complex nature of our ever diverse society and how many people would rather hire a foreigner than a native because at least the foreigner will turn up to the interview, let alone the actual job on time.

It is easier to scroll through Facebook and believe a post that claims our Government spends more on Foreign Aid than the welfare of our own society without actually researching the facts to find Britain's annual spend is only a tiny amount of our GDP.

It is easier to tar Muslims with the terrorist brush than realising that many British people commit huge acts of terrorism by leaving communities in fear every week by theft, abuse and rape of core ideals.

We need to stop believing the world owes us and understanding we owe our fellow man so much in that without love, community and communication we are individuals seeking to follow the god of greed and selfishness.

Peace.  x

Beacon of Light

How do you feel?  Have you been crippled by fear again?  Have you woken with your back dripping wet and your mind branded with terror?  It has been another night of cruel images steamrolling their way in and leaving you trembling, sweating and gasping for breath.  It is relentless.  It is disturbing.

What causes these night terrors to swoop in and rob you of peace and tranquility?  I was once told the nightmares are there because of my own perception of myself.  I was told that the longer I clung on to certain things the more frequently these nightmares would return.  After all, no-one else is commanding your mind.  No-one is implanting these dreams.  You are the master of your mind.  Or you can be at least.  What guilt to you cling on to, like letting go would somehow end your life?

This guilt we nurture holds no use or purpose but yet we desperately strive to nourish it as if it holds some special power we don't quite understand yet.  Guilt is purely subjective and holds no baring on another person's life.  Our guilt makes another's life no better or worse;  they carry on regardless.  We sit there in our own filth of guilt as if we are punishing ourselves.  It's a form of self-harm.  It's sadistic.

We allow this guilt to rot our insides and tear away at our soul until we becomes a shadow - life drained from our eyes.  We allow it to dictate our identity and ultimately are left with no identity.  We become people of fear and trembling not beautiful beacons of light.  You are a beacon of light.

When you accept the past is the past and what makes life worth living is how embrace the now, that is when you become a beacon of light.  Look at those around you who seem so content and at ease with who they are.  They understand the beauty of now and the empowering sense of freedom that comes with accepting mistakes and understanding the wisdom which has come from those mistakes.

Guilt brings death.  Forgiveness brings life.

Forgive yourself.  Stand in the sun and breathe in the wonderful freedom of forgiveness.

Peace.  x