Perspective: My Post-Election Prose
Sharing some forward thoughts after sitting back to observe... first, before making any statements. TLDR: I believe in a brighter future, for all of us.
Today, I am sharing some forward thoughts after taking some time to simply sit back to observe first... the immediate aftermath of an intensely emotional minority erupt in opposition to the vast majority of Americans choosing to move this massive country in a completely different direction.
I’m sure you’ve seen the maps.
I’m sure you’ve watched the reaction clips.
I’m sure you’ve heard the screams - both for joy and those of lost hope.
I’m sure you’ve got some opinions of your own.
But my post today, as with all my stories, is never to draw us out in vitriol, but rather to offer us the chance at mutually determined construction instead of mutually assured destruction of the same shared ground in which we stand today, stood yesterday, and will stand tomorrow.
“Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.” - Matthew 12:25
👁️ ☀️ So much of our experience of this life is determined by our perception, our attitude, and our expectations.
🎤 “I’m wearing hope, optimism, and positivity on my sleeve until the day I die!”
and even still when I’m gone from this world I’ll filled with hope, optimism, and positivity. (Something I recently said out loud while talking to a friend)
👉 This last week or so after the election so has been heavy ~ emotionally ~ with personal highs and experiential lows as I watch and listen (less and less, more and more) to online talk, discussion, and concerning emotional explosion and zealousness.
🤔 My fellow human, my fellow neighbor, I do not fully understand why we can be..
… so easily affected by what we have been told to believe
… so easily manipulated by the news and media
… so easily distracted by the core common truths of our community needs.
🙈 I have seen us vilify and demonize to such the extreme extent that we inevitably insist in self-isolation with an us-vs-them mentality.
🗣️ I have seen us speak of terrible things of adults we do not know with the same lips we use to kiss the foreheads of the sweet children in our lives, forever wishing we spent more time with them in PLAY than on our PHONES.
I have seen us cast stones and call out the endless specks in our fellow’s eyes, all without any regard for the shipyard of broken planks & fractured timber stuck within our own. 👀
🙏 Since I was 3 yrs old I have had a personal connection with calling others to peace. And we only get there via the same mechanisms we’ve only ever been able to get there… through humility, grace, forgiveness, hope, faith, trust, love, and light. 💫
I’m sure many of you reading this can probably relate. This is what many of us feel deep inside our bones as we are told to watch the world argue online. NO. Refuse to entertain that zombie-life experience. Refuse to internalize the lies being spewed from fire hoses. 💦
✌️ My spiritual seekers, you are incredibly important in this time.. Let me tell you why..
To be here to ground, to heal, and show those who need to heal & release how to do so in hopes they can find freedom & peace within. 💙
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🤝 There are great opportunities that lay before us.
• To be leaders of our own lives, homes, families, neighborhoods, and communities.
• To call OURSELVES to peace WITHIN before we label the world “out there” as evil or malevolent.
🤷♂️ Regardless of what we THINK about the lives of those who are being elected into places of government leadership or high political office, we can take a moment each day to check ourselves, to reset ourselves and reset our cells, to find our breath and find our balance, to rewire what has gone haywire since the the world went weird in Dec 2019 and beyond.
It is ours:
Our choice.
Our responsibility.
Our opportunity.
👁️ To put on a lens of hope, faith, positivity, and optimism for the road we shall pave ahead ~ together.
☝️ One of my core fundamental beliefs is…
… that if we were given a choice between a life filled with pessimism and negativity or a life filled with optimism and positivity, that the latter choice is one that will lead to more joy, more hope, more boldness, more ambition, more adventures, and more endeavors, more fun, more friends, more success, more trips, more happiness overall.
🤔 💭 So why not?
Why NOT choose our life to be filled with optimism and positivity for the year ahead in 2025?
Why NOT begin each day with a daily affirmation to remind ourselves of the important intentions we have set to give our neighbors a chance?
Why NOT start to learn how we CAN shape our perspective and RESHAPE our future for the road we must pave ~ together.
Why NOT begin each day with gratitude as we get ourselves primed and ready to embrace whatever wonderful experiences the world sends us along the way?
💪 You know, this life we have isn’t meant to be lived in isolation, or fear, or desolation, death, and despair. No. This life is meant to be LIVED not KILLED. And many of us are unapologetically KILLING our own lives from the inside out.
🛑 STOP IT.
🙏 SAVE YOURSELF the pain of waking up 75 years later looking back with the Top 5 Regrets of the Dying…. wishing you had found peace, hope, faith, positivity, and optimism along the way, more time for more love with friends and family, talked to more strangers and gotten to know your neighbors, more boldness to endeavor upon the adventures with full relentless ambition to believe in yourself every step of the way.
💯 This is our chance. This is your chance. To make this great place healthy again: in Mind • Body • Spirit.
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🚫 Red 40
🚫 Yellow 5
🚫 Fluoride
✅ Homeschooling is cool
✅ Growing your own food
✅ Loving your friends unapologetically
🌟 And the list goes on my friends. 🌟
👍 This could be an amazing time and amazing ride for all of us and the future of this wild place we call home. But for this ride to go anywhere, we must go together.
So sit down or stand up. 🙌
Strap in and fasten your seatbelts. Feel free to ride however you like.
Some of us will scream with joyful laughter & shouts of enthusiasm while others will close our eyes and experience the ride more passively.
Real Talk? I have high hopes.
Not in just a small set of individuals at the top. No.
I have high hopes for the people of this country to find it within their character, to unbury their burdened spirits, and remember what it used to be like to be free with joy, hope, optimism and positivity in this place.
And as a PBD would say, “Future Looks Bright.” 🌟 (IYKYK) 🇺🇸
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