When The World Looks Dark, You Can Hold the Light 🕯️
News can force you to battle with fear or frustration but I believe you have a much more beautiful role to play.
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Though this world may feel like it is filled with darkness, it also has light.
When it feels like the darkness is consuming you, remember this:
You can hold the light.
You see, I fundamentally believe in this beautiful invisible energy that both exists within and exudes out from each and every one of us.
In our current political climate, things can feel eerily bleak.
I mention this opportunity for us to hold on to the light in the midst of the mayhem we see all over the news and TV.
We are constantly being lied to in one way or another. Across all platforms of media and messaging we are being misled — some unintentionally, many intentionally.
Headlines are hoisted to the heavens for our eyes to gawk at while images flash across the screen screaming at our deepest emotions.
These methods of madness have worked for centuries. The chaos continues to ensue today. In fact, it’s only gotten worse. It’s only become easier to promote false narratives, skew the script, shadow the truth from the audience. To make matters worse is that we our perceptions and emotions are controlled by narratives controlled by media controlled by the flow of money. The tactics and tools of using social media and news media to toy with the truth and act in deception or ignorance — or both — without recourse.
The truth that I believe in and the truth I’m talking about here is one that remains wildly underexplored and far less manifested than what it could be. The truth is that the light of love in this life is found in YOU and certainly not on the news or discovered by perpetually scrolling through propaganda.
I do not stand for the party in which everyone masquerades around as if everything is okay. Trust me, I’m not saying the reality of our times today is not brutally heavy… because it just that. I do not follow the premise that ignorance is bliss. What I do recommend though is a healthy balance of both standing with eyes wide open to the world around you, but not letting the world out there ruin the world within.
I believe we humans have the capability to hold a magical light inside each of us.
I believe you deserve to know the truth.
I believe that we would be wise to be skeptical of all images and headlines and emotional arguments that we observe from any screen. People hold bias and humans are imperfect. We seek validation for our own ideas and the social algorithms feed this feedback loop in a way that only further indoctrinates us with our own beliefs. Over time, we grow cold and bitter to any outside perspectives and the outside world as we have grown so unfamiliar with interacting with alternative ideas or interpretations of what we have been exposed to.
I believe there is a better way to live than to be pressured into ideological islands of isolation that inevitably lead to partial narcissism or borderline psychosis thanks to the all-conforming algorithm of ideas.
I will not be consumed by the machine as the consumer it hungers to devour. Instead, I stand back and don’t spend too much time with the dangerous tools we now carry with us everywhere we go. I have learned to set up necessary boundaries in order to collect my consciousness and protect my sanity.
If the last 3 years have taught us anything, it should be to be mindful of our mental health in our ways of consuming media.
The truth that I believe is still the notion that only love can drive out hate and only light can lead us out of darkness.
That light we get to hold inside ourselves and we have the opportunity to share it with others as it radiates from character and impacts how we show up in world around us.
I believe we have time still left to fall back in love with our childlike spirits of love, faith, joy and trust in others. These are the foundations of our human experience if we intend to endeavor upon the pursuit of happiness.
In a world that can feel forever filled with pain, I believe it becomes imperatively important for us to strive for love and take strides to live life in the light.
I believe humans have the potential to be bearers of light & love in this life — I would hate for that to be missed by means of propaganda & misunderstandings. ~ Love You All 💙
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