A not so subtle reminder to be kind and gentle to one another:
Odd conversation with someone from high school here on Facebook, after being "friends" for only a month or so I received a message, "We weren't close at Graham, so I don't feel the need to continue a relationship on here." (I do admit to preferring this over mere deletion.) Well, kudos for seizing your power kid, I know you were bullied and picked on throughout high school, but you just got "uppity" with the person who preformed CPR on your father for 40 minutes, long before the mask or bag days. I wasn't successful, and I'm certain you aren't aware of that, nor should it make us instant friends, but it is a point of perspective for me.
I see Facebook as information, a decent news source, often faster than TV, a beautiful opportunity for reconnection, and a way to keep up with folks near and far. Granted, it's a way for creepy folks to eavesdrop and stalk but Mark & Co. has given us the means to limit what those folks see.
Let us agree to disagree from time to time without it being the end of the world. Let us support one another with kind thoughts, generic prayers, well-wishes, and simple deeds of good faith. Let us make room for folks to have bad days as part of being human, not as a permissive state, with perfectionist expectations. Above all, let us communicate with kindnesses and clarity, or the patience until that is possible. Let us use, possibly a global "safe phrase" of 'Please Wait,' that is understood to mean, "I want to communicate with you, but if I do right now I will be hungry, angry, lonely tired, I might eat your head like an animal cracker, I might blast you with words of anger meant for someone else." Y'all get the gist.
If you find yourself unable to communicate, stop trying until you can. If the other person can't, be respectful and let them process THEIR way, not yours At the very least, just stop hurting one another. Enough of that goes on between strangers, let's not do it to people we know, even those we know vicariously.
I can't believe the response I got from this simple post of my thoughts in the wee hours of a random morning. Most of the 3 am posts go relatively unnoticed. But this one, it hit home for a bunch of people struggling with the same issue. I guess we were all experiencing a quickening in a growth wave and confusion in trying to communicate with those who are stuck in old patterning. We can't force them to move forward, but we can have patience with them, and we can distance ourselves from their trapped thinking. There is no judgement in noticing a person being trapped, it's a mere realization equal to that of realizing that your own chains have been broken.
I have noticed deep resentment from those who are trapped. Specifically addressed at those who are moving past them without even being conscious of what, or to whom they are directing their venom. Most of these are people who say they are in "conscious contact" with higher sources, and who go out of their way to be involved in spiritual adventures, yet don't see that they are not stretching themselves if they are not truly "open" then the contact is diminished and restricted to what their chains allow. I've had people say that it was jealousy, but then 'jealousy of what' rang through me as what could someone be jealous of me for? I have recently broken out of a shitty relationship. I picked up and made a huge move. I left everything I knew and was just winging it on blind faith that I would be ok, which is what faith really is isn't it?
Faith that everything will work out? Isn't Faith deep knowing at it's very basal nature? Are they jealous of a tangible connection, or my freedom to flow through life like water between grains of sand, instead of hardening concrete around x-shaped blocks. My life has been difficult at times. I have been tested for sure. But moving ahead has never been a problem, finding the next step, even in the dark, hasn't proven to be my biggest hurdle. My biggest hurdle has always been me, so I don't understand jealousy at all. I never will.
