Be the change …
Sep 3rd, 2008 by spaceagesage
The divisiveness during presidential election times astonishes me. How can so many people speak horrendously vile gossip, write such hateful diatribes, and push - sometimes violently - their agendas? I understand passion, zeal, and standing up for what you believe in, but I doubt a person’s sense of justice when hate, violence, or defamation is their currency of choice in getting a point across. My husband has a saying that sums it up for me: “You cannot honor one person by dishonoring another.”
Can’t we all just get along?
Well, that is naive, I know. A friend of mine ran for a local political office just a few years ago, and someone threatened her teenage kids and elderly mom to scare her into backing out (she didn’t), so I can’t imagine what the presidential candidates and their running mates’ families have to endure.
Despite the negativity on the rise, we don’t have to buy into it. Each of us can choose to be one voice, one writer, one person taking positive action to move the world forward in a healing direction. Here are some starting points we can use to make the world a better, more positive place:
I’m sure you can add more, so please do in the comments. My list is purposely more general than specific.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. ~ Anais Nin ~
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- - - -Photo credit: Lori Hoeck
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