HOW DO WE FIX THE DIVIDE?

2020 was a stressful year, I imagine it was difficult for many, in a lot of different ways, either financially, emotionally, growth, heartbreak, loss, the list continues. For me it was a sense of feeling lost again, I had tried so hard to become a new me after the events of my book, and 2020 was just pulling me back in again, I felt stressed by a problem I could not step away from. I always thought being awake meant being in touch with your spiritual side but now I feel it might have more than a single meaning. Being awake not just to the spiritual world but to the way our physical world works and how we must be aware of the system we live within and base our decisions upon. I thought my eyes were open when I wrote my book, 2020 just opened them even wider. I thought I was completely awake, but now I realise one is never fully awoken, one just keeps waking up, I’m always learning and connecting new dots. I think 99% of the world shared an experience of growth together through 2020. No matter what each may believe about our world, I imagine in their own way, everyone has been surprised by certain events which have forced us to sit down and question life.

To a degree everyone’s wiring in how we saw the world up until 2019 has changed, 2020 is just the beginning, 2021 feels to be very interesting. When a person reaches rock bottom, there is no other option than to rebuild themselves up again, when the whole world hits rock bottom, we all get to rebuild together.

The coronavirus isn’t the only problem we’re facing, it might seem like the biggest, but there’s much more going on, and many of us are aware and have questions, the more people who question, no matter the question, the greater the growth. All those problems that were neglected last year, will need to be addressed soon, negativity just seems to come from everywhere these days. Anger is an instinctual emotion and not very becoming, I always think it’s best to control that anger and write sensible mature posts worth being discussed rather than letting that anger get the best of one’s emotions and (for example) start calling people “Karen”. Remember in class when someone was given a funny nickname and by days end the whole school was using that nickname? Let’s not fall for those games, remember if your behaviour can be associated to a child in school, maybe that’s not the behaviour you should be acting on. Yes, have fun, don’t be a prude, for example learn to enjoy South Park, but for the most part be sensible with your words. Conspiracy Theorist and Sheep seem to be the new popular nicknames these days, I don’t think that’s very mature, we’re all just people with different beliefs, different views, because we consume different forms of media but at the end of the day, we all have the same morals. It should not be us against us, it should be us against our broken system, not with violence, with smarts. Look at what’s going on in wall street right now, that is a great example of the silent majority going against the loud minority using their brains and not their brutes.

I come from a very small community, and since childhood have been programmed to be respectful and understanding of many different beliefs. Gibraltar is a large Rock, where a tiny community of various cultures live side by side with one another, and we get along fine. Growing up all I wanted to do was get out of Gibraltar, it was so isolated from the rest of the world, now I see this as such a big advantage for all of us. We’re mostly sheltered from the drama, propaganda and influence found across most other countries; I think that was so beneficial in my up bringing. We’re most easily wired and manipulated as children, when we are blank slates, that’s why it’s important not to mould children, let them become their own art. Whilst we are fighting between each other, we are not working together to help ourselves, we are just going around in a vicious cycle, passed on from generation to generation. Being a parental or influential figure in a child’s life is a very serious responsibility, the way children are moulded, is the way society begins to function within a loop, even if it’s not to our benefit. Never mould a child, especially as a group, help them grow individually, encourage their uniqueness, support them, let them develop into their own person, whilst providing factual knowledge to help them in their upbringings and understanding of the life they exist within.

It’s important to have conversations, especially the ones that make you feel emotions, make you feel purpose, no matter what your belief, stand up for it but never bully anyone into following your belief. If people let their anger get the best of them when discussing important topics then it’s pointless. No matter what side you’re on, the fact that sensible discussions can be had around certain taboo topics, that’s where I think we shine the best. The fact that we can then interact with each other in person, knowing we have different viewpoints, but respecting each other for it and still allowing our friendships to continue, that is very special. I run into a lot of people who do not share my opinions, but are still very respectful to me when we see each other, these people (although we share different views) have my utmost respect. I read over conversations had on social media all around the web on a handful of topics and I find it very interesting but also very reassuring at how mature the majority are in their discussions. As you read various posts, you might see some fighting, some childish and immature nonsense, a few insults but for the most part, its actual people having respectable discussions with one another, that is rare to find these days, but you can still find it amongst the silent majority. The loud minority become the vocal view point and the vicious cycle continues. Fortunately, the way most of us are wired (me included) if we’re not bombarded by the problem constantly, we tend to move on from it and detach our emotions from it too. What is important is to move on for the experience but remember what you have learnt from it, don’t forget those lessons, keep them so you can grow. Although we all shared the same experience, we faced different problems throughout it, 2020 was unique to everybody.

If aliens came and attacked us, if floods began drowning our lands, if oxygen began to disappear, that’s when we’d realize, all these dividing problems we create for ourselves by living within a broken system are unnecessary. Spiritual growth can only come from human growth first, both mentally and physically. Normally we follow a pattern planned for us since before our birth and mentally we do not grow as rapidly as we could, 2020 that pattern was broken after a long time, everyone faced a new chapter in their lives. If we were all born blind, we would never know of the beauty that is sight. If a few people explain their experience of sight, it sounds like an interesting concept but until you are no longer blind and can see the beautify of the world with your own eyes, that’s when you can truly believe in something. If the heart cannot believe, the soul cannot grow, without the experiences of the body and mind to awaken them. Let’s work together, the way things are going, it will be time to rebuild and influence a new generation, one who should not be trapped within a system that takes over their entire lives with “work”.  The world thought we were special enough as is to live on, without paying rent to the Universe, yet here we are, the only animals working to maintain our existence on Earth.

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