The Easy Way

The Easier Ways

You know I can now see why some people genuinely believe that lizard folk are running the world. It is easier to see the alien and unconnected as a different species than accept the fact that some people are really that stupid, ignorant and hateful. 

Rage and hate is another cop out. So much easier to feel "right" when you don't have to think about it. Just dwell in your hot burning wrath.

The other way is to make passive platitudes. Pay lip service to the horrors and agonies of the world. 

The problem with most of these, even rage and hate is it doesn't change anything and certainly not for the better. I do not believe that it is my personal responsibility to fix or heal the whole world and everything in it; but I think that kindness, compassion and an acceptance of the messy chaos helps.

Death is tragic. There is no rhyme and reason, except under the flow of chaos are a set of circumstances, the conditions for a set of things to happen.

My mother had a sudden bleed in the brain and died. It was sudden and shocking. Yet she smoked, never really talked or let anyone in. Bottled everything except anger.

The conditions were set for something sudden (or even not so sudden) to happen. 

Violence is like that too. A set of circumstances. A set of conditions, within the abusers as well as the systems that fund and use them.

I can see why conspiracy theories spring up. It is much easier to believe that some deep dark evil group organizes all the terrors than the truly terrifying idea that people, humans, can be so awful. 

There is no one reason why people do terrible things. It isn't religion. It isn't "human nature". It isn't fear or greed or money. 

People do terrible things because they can.

They do it because it is easier than talking, and listening and admitting that you are fighting other people. It is easier than looking beneath ideology, creed, race, and gender we are all people.

This fear in seeing others as people will drive people to kill or even die rather than other humans as humans.

It is a set of conditions. It enables smarter people to control those lost and willing to be lost in this stew of emotional crap. It enables those who make weapons and feed on the carrion left in the wake of violence.  

I feel for those who have lost loved one. I recognise the agony on the faces of keening mothers.

"Why my beautiful baby?"

There are no easy answers.

No quick soundbites.

Dream of peace. Breath it in and out of your body and soul and be kind to as many people as you can.

People are capable of doing anything.

We have the capacity to do anything.

Let us not chose the easy ways.

Bright Blessings xxx