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The New Normal
The wounds of our global culture are showing us we must find another way to live, especially when it comes to how we communicate and how we treat each other.
If anything, our current political and social environment is teaching me that I must change. I must change what I say and how I say it. I must change how I think and how I think about it. Living as I did for the past 67 years is no longer okay. Actually, it never really has been. I just didn’t know any better. Or better said, I only cared about how the world affected me, not how what I had thought or done affected the world. I finally realized how small I have been thinking and living.
Maybe many of you are beginning to reconsider how what you think and do affects the lives of others. Maybe many of you are daring to dig deep within your own moral fabric and observe beliefs that haven’t served you well or are no longer serving the planet we inhabit. For me, it’s been a hard observation. I have been reminded over and over again that I can and must do something different because the result I desire has not yet manifested, though I am getting closer each day.
I want to live my life in peace. I noticed that much of my life is chaotic, especially when I allow others, in the form of external media, to dictate my opinions and create the thoughts that guide my behavior.
