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new thoughts for a new moon...

today i was thinking about triggers & wondering if they've all ways been this bad between different groups of people? & i realized that probably... yes, if not more so... we just weren't in each other's inboxes, social media feeds, etc. all day long. (***irritating the crap out of each other's bottled up frustrations much?***) it makes me kinda sad because i feel like people aren't actually hearing each other & are carrying a lot of resentments from one conversation into the next... eyes glazed over, context skimmed... you know how it is. but i also feel our generation(s) are making this sacrifice so that future generations can look upon each other more clearly and have genuine empathy... and a human experience less obscured by stereotypes and compartmentalization. may my pie in the face today, be your food tomorrow. a pie in the sky, i know.

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we are living in close quarters with each other and becoming more & more psychicly sensitive by the hour. if you don't like the woo-woo stuff, just consider it scientifically: we share our thoughts with each other constantly, and often unconsciously...left behind for all the world to read like diaries spray-painted on walls. how do we integrate these insights into each other, without becoming thoroughly disgusted and/or lashing out?

i feel in some ways we are at a crossroads between warring ideologies and empathy, the nature of which may determine how well we are able to evolve to meet the coming challenges. the other day i was thinking about how people all ways say you should 'stand up for what's right.' but they don't talk as much about how society may not catch up with you for hundreds of years, and what it feels like to actually go against the flow of public perception... against people who you otherwise have great respect for. it's painful, but when the alternative is to say, "yes, ma'am," & "yes, sir," at the expense of your truth...not only will you die inside, but eventually they will find fault with you anyway (because indeed being inauthentic will magnify your flaws). and you will have nothing to say in your defense, because you haven't been living your true message to the earth, so 'the words of your mouth won't be the meditations of your heart' (to para-quote the song "mystic motion" by datura).

my question is... must we still be so alone in this, or is it time we can begin to hold space for each other's truth & not merely a thousand renditions and reflections upon our own? empathy isn't a free pass to toxic behavior any more than medicine enables a disease, but what is more prescient is... can we heal?

the ultimate libra dilemma: "should i stand up for what's right, no matter what's left?" (it's just a pun really)