Know Yourself.

Know Yourself.

Have you listened to the passion that can be heard in peoples’ conversations about recent events?  Listen. How deep, knowledgeable, self- affirming, and understanding of each other these types of words are that have been evacuated from the daily stifle of our lips. Have you heard people comforting each other and expounding on the meaning of life as well as passing judgement on the events? Have you heard words of praise and sudden emission of love and kindness, and you wonder where have these words been? Have you realized that we are more than individuals stuck with our faces to screens? We are breathing and present. Why is it that events like these transpire, and it is as if we came out of a shell or a bunker when we have been present all along?

Have these events made you want to crawl into a hole and cry? Has it made you decide if your words and thoughts are ready to be publicized and may be ostracized; hopeful that they will find their ways to the ears that will help them? Do you wonder if it’s ok to step over the boundary and help hearts longing for kindness and minds wondering if they exist? Let your words lift others up. Don’t let others bring you down. Know your strengths, your weaknesses, make an effort, love yourself, let go. You are human.

Is it possible that we search for happiness, at times feeling aimless, because we haven’t taken the time to allow ourselves self -affirmation, self- reliance, tests and mistakes, failures, courage and beliefs? We are born who we are and we bring something to the world. And yet we all seem to have this taught protocol of what we need to be in order to have lived. Is it possible that our daily activities, measured steps, voices that decide acceptance and fate, have shadowed who we are, that we no longer accept the reality of ourselves? And are these failures something we allow to mold us when they are only meant to teach us? Is it because we have a lack of courage and belief in ourselves? Because pain has been suffered that we have taken the pain and let it mold our daily lives?

Maybe we are hoping for a love to heal abandoned heartache that exists. We are holding out for someone bold enough to tell us we are good enough, to forgive ourselves for things beyond our control, because we should.

When we judge, belittle, gossip, bemoan, and when someone reaches out to us with kindness, open hearts, listening ears even in the smallest nuance, and we shun each other for real emotions we shun our existence. We allow feelings of rawness to emote and bring us down because we don’t allow acceptance of our selves. And so, we go deeper into sorrow and searching and feeling despaired and this in turn becomes cyclical.

Imagine if the passion we speak with in light of recent events was emoted daily to ourselves and others.  What could we do with it?

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