I am really struggling with myself these days. I want to be positive and optimistic, to move forward to make my and other peoples lives better. While I want to do this I can not ignore the fact (as much as I would like to) that:
And these are just a very few low lights of the many horrible things that are happening now. I would love to just ignore them and go on with “my life” as if nothing is happening as so many people do, but I am not that person. It is tearing me apart. But what can I do? Calling and writing our “elected representatives” clearly does nothing these days because they are making themselves more wealthy and powerful by serving their corporate overlords rather than representing us or being decent ethical human beings. Posting memes and links on social media to bolster my positions only make those who agree feel good and those who disagree mad, alienated, and dig further into their positions, it does not open up dialog or understanding. Calling those who disagree stupid, pointing out why I think they are wrong does not bring us together, It just serves to further divide us. And thus those few in power gain even far greater power when we the people are more divided rather than united. And this is a major part of why I don’t do that anymore, because I understand that underneath all of our strongly held even if opposing views on things we are ALL humans with basically the same needs and hopes, we are all far, far more alike than we are different even if circumstances in our lives have caused us to see things very much differently. But while I get that I also feel that not posting those memes especially protesting things like what our government is doing putting children into cages, is making me in some way complicit in that because I feel like I am doing nothing. And it’s tearing me up, making me depressed, keeping my from effectively moving forward, BUT posting those things, making those calls to our “representatives” focusing my thoughts and energy on that was doing the exact same thing to me. And it wasn’t changing anything. I have got to find a better way to handle this horrible reality that we are living in.
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