Just a thought…

Between work, family, life and those blissful rest days, I at times get a chance to be silent and let my thoughts roam free. As I am navigating the influx of information our world is bombarding us with, from politics, mindless content creations, wisdoms presented as new, over and over and over again. It struck me; we as a society has bought into this “divide and conquer ideology.”

We, even when we think we are immune to it, are all bought into it on different levels. From wars being fought to as menial as different opinions on a trifling subject. We have this belief that we have to stand our ground and if we cannot convince each other that we have the right opinion, we take seat on a side. And, yes, we do have different opinions about things, but do we have to go to war about it?

I totally understand that when a certain opinion, value or belief is harmful to the other party, we probably should find a safer space. My problem though with this is: Do we have to be so adamant to stand in one another’s faces in a standoff? Why not just walk away? Find your own space with your own likeminded people.

Part of this thinking was about a very superficial subject. I thought about how we bought into the worldly perception of beauty with all the sellers and buyers of flesh appearance. I thought about how we discard loved ones when we are going through a rough time. I thought about our quick fix mentality in a world where everything is at our fingertips and morals, values, effort and support for one another is discarded. We are fed ways to leave our families in this mentality of conditioned self-centeredness.

Well by no means do I condone suffering through a dangerous or traumatizing relationship with anyone, but I do see a populace of people discarding each other like ragdolls for their next big fix. And then I thought of a boy I had a crush on in first grade, who wasn’t popular as a result of his chubby appearance, but he was intelligent and now very successful.

And then I thought that If I could go back in time and be able to sit next to him again in our innocence, I would look at him starry-eyed, like I often did, and appreciate his beauty. The kind only kind hearts can see. I would tell him that he was perfectly created with a beautiful heart and with clear vision I would see that one day his worldly vessel would fall apart to expose his heart, and he is a piece of art. I would tell him that eventually his unique futures will protect him from the world. That those whose vision is not obscured by outward pressures and with pure hearts will be able to recognize it and sit by his side.

Yet here we are going in circles, where with my next social media visit, I will have to remind myself that I don’t measure my worth by worldly standards and nor should you...

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