24/12/2023
It seems very challenging to have compassionate and particularly challenging to have peace-promoting discussions lately - which is a common, if not very useful byproduct of any sort of violent hostility that activates trauma and fear in humans (which we all carry to some degree) which is usually when our capacity for compassion and connection goes out the window. Yet without recognising the humanness of “the other”, no matter how little we trust and how much we blame “them”, we are truly doomed, especially in a world where destruction on a mass scale as we are currently seeing in various places is easier and easier to engineer and achieve for just a small amount of people.
I have a feeling that our idea of “war” dates back to a medieval setting of “men against men” and some warped sense of justice and honour that is coded with that which is truly not the case in modern warfare.
War by definition is an event that leaves everyone scarred, injured, traumatise and maimed - or dead - no matter whether I find myself on the side of the winners or losers or bystanders. This is a truth that’s understandable to any 3 year old child. I wonder how we engage in the mechanisms that allow us as adults to discard and twist this truth into some sort of necessity logic… hmmm, probably through fear again and a loss of trust.
I truly belief that as long as our fascination with (and attraction to) violence is bigger than our attraction to and fascination with peaceful living, this state of perpetuated slaughter will continue.
This holiday time is supposed to remind us of the initial state of wonder and incumbent calm and peace, a trust in being cared for with which we come into the world, the gifts of a newborn child.
Watch the cynic in you trying to ridicule and shove away that thought, marking it “idealistic” and “removed from reality”. It truly is far from many people’s reality in the world right now who are suffering unfathomable harm and distress. That’s what ideals are for: to fu***ng change that, to devote ourselves to align our actions with the wishes we had of the world as a safe place to grow up and explore when we were little children. Care for that little one, the one that was you once, outwardly too, that still resides inside you, and the little ones near and far that share this planet with you.
We are all in this together. Let’s act accordingly!
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