Imagine this.
There is a planet, where there are people, who live on the surface of the ground.
These people - for good or for bad - live together. They need eachother in order to sustain their daily life. They are also mostly creatures with at least some basic social needs. Due to a severe lack of water, the ground is becoming more and more dry, and cracks appear. These cracks draw lines between the people, separating them from each other. Than the cracs become deeper and the ground starts to move. As the gaps get wider, the people – who are still essentially the same ones with their unsustainable lives on their own and their social needs – become more and more separated.
Curiously enough, they choose to ignore the daily earthquakes, and instead, they blame each other for the separation. “He thinks he´s better than me and doesnt talk to me anymore, I dont care, I dont want to talk to him anyway, who the hell does he think he is?” And so, they slowly let go of each other. They are hurt for being lonely, they feel unloved and in return they stop loving as well.
This of course unlocks a chainreaction and the feeling spreads like some kind of virus. The separation becomes reality.
Now, imagine there are some people, who DO realize the earthquakes. They do realice that the separation isnt a necessary reaction and certainly not the only way.
They may try to talk to others.
“It´s not that love is gone, its just a phase we are all going through, if you would just put your pain aside for a moment and open your eyes, its not all about you, look around, look whats going on, look at the circumstances, look at the systems, look how it all works, look for solutions and of course – look for others, turn to other people, why are you looking at me like that, if they dont love you you still can love them!” etc, etc…
Love, letting go, positivity, energy, healing… words we use, and many many times we see that people aren´t ready to understand. Their misery is tied to a judgemental way of thinking, doubts and of course to suffering.
And that can become extremly frustrating for anyone who can see, and slowly those words slowly loose their meanings.
These people at some point whish for the “blue pill” of ignorance.
I hear it a lot:
“If I cant make them see, whats the point in seeing it at all? I whish I wouldnt know. I whish I could just be like them, living my life, minding my own business. Its just frustrating to see people who dont want to heal, who want to suffer, who wont love, and by that to see all the infinite potential in them, it is rightout hurtnig. I whish I wouldnt know. I whish I wouldnt see.”
And with that most of them close their eyes as well, or at least they pretend so.
They usually become lonelier than the rest, because they dont mix well with completly closed minded people.
In the meanwhile the ground keeps moving, the gaps become wider. Interestingly enough the more people turn away from the others, the wider the gap is becoming around them. They become isolated on their little islands, and become sick or at some point jump from the cliff.
But maybe not everything is so dark, or – as we are talking of a dual world, where there is darkness, there is sure somewhere also light.
A few people recognize, that there isn´t much sense in explaining colors to blind people, and also recognize that such an intent might be very frustrating for them and that can result tragically as they may become separated and ignorant as well.
So they say
“Hmmm… there isnt much I can say about it to all these people, but maybe there is something I can DO. How about I design something new? How about I start to build bridges from my island to that of the others? How about I look around and see how to regain sustainability in my world in all kind of ways. As a result I will do better, and I can share this with those who want to do so as well. I can show that we can find our ways back to each other if I find my way back to myself. Maybe the road to the outside leads through the inside. The road to others lead through myself. And maybe, just maybe, others will realize it too, become interested, curious and join. Maybe in order to save the world I am to find a way to save myself…”
So they start to look around and find solutions for their own life and enviroment. They go on regardless what and do their thing. Each one of them does what they are MEANT to do. So they find ways to each other, and cross the gaps laying between them. They feed the ground and water it. They fix the soil and make it healthy and fertile again, so their pieces of earth start to swell up and eventually meet and melt together again. And there, on this common ground life will bloom and people will feel human beings again. With dignity, purpose, essence and meaning.
Imagine this.
Love this story and I deeply agree with its essence. It’s made me think over how to keep the world from cracking under our feet. And here are my reflections:
Analysing why we let things happen, I come to the conclusion that we can split people into 4 different groups:
1)There are people who just live for themselves and feel that environment and co-existence are not their matter (total isolation, total lack of interest in our surroundings).
2)Others have the wish to change things but they just let themselves go because swimming against the tide means a great effort.
3)Others are full of good wishes and they feel the need to do something but they are negative with respect to their possibilities, tend to feel alone and, therefore, all their good purposes are never carried out.
4)And there are other people who feel really involved and dedicate a part of their lives to do their best to change things.
People in this last group are basically those who are active with this respect, but there are other 2 groups that have an inner concern and could be persuaded to work for this labour. I think, most of us are within them. Fighting idleness and supporting each other in this tough job is the first step to achieve a better world.
Me myself feel I am in the 3rd group, therefore, I just let things happen feeling angry with what I see but just sitting down saying I can do nothing, how!.
Now, what can we do to become a part of the 4th group? Three key ideas: Raise people’s awareness to work jointly, creating a master plan and realisation of that master plan.
a)We should try to raise people’s awareness in changing things, do sort of a campaign to make people understand and also try to join those who have an interest in changing things for good, siding with each other.
b)Creating a master plan on how to focus the ways to stop devastation
c)Realisation of our master plan and final achievement
Big problem: How could we ALL join together to plan the 2nd step? This is where all the chain breaks up because we just can work but in small groups and, again, we are in the same 3rd group feeling small and lonely to fight something so big.
This leads me to think that a massive change is just a utopia. However, we could try to achieve small changes in many different places and so, we could finally get a big change in all.
Indeed, this would work definitely and actually it is working but, for some reason we do not achieve the great change we expected. Why??
The mistake, again, is in us. “There are so many of us that the other can do more than me and I can relax in the meantime. Anyway, just one person won’t mind…” And when that unconscious part of the human condition appears in some of us, there’s nothing we can do to achieve our aim. It is implicit in the human nature. So I am still in the 3rd group, step b). Then, I can work only at my personal level, which is not enough but it is what seems to keep Mankind going. In the end, even in fighting isolation, we fight alone…
And here I am, trying to think how to join efforts together in order to change the world, sitting in front of a computer…
And I am very happy You´re sitting there thinking about it! Your contributions are very very valuable and inspiring. :)
I do see a way how mankind would be able to find back to unity, but more than a “master plan” its a vision. In fact i don´t believe it would work with any kind of master plan. Because it involves the necessity of leaders and followers. In the traditional way followers are by definition not thinkers. They just accept the rules othes create - for whatever reason - and go by it. In history many tried to find THE master plan, and unfortunately it never worked.
To live free one needs to grow up. Unity must root in free choice, othervise it wont last. So it´s a very personal choice. A question sooner or later each and every one of us has to face and answer. And believe me no master-leaders are necessary for that.
Power is a vastly overrated drug, and hunger for power has signed all the big master plans of history so far. Real change comes in a very subtile way. It is indeed hillarious how easy it is generated really. You may not even realize it day by day. Sometimes its enough to give a smile to make the day of someone happy and they will give it further because the joy shines through people. Really small things, like opening a door for someone instead of shutting it on their nose. Saying good morning with a smile, sharing something good. Im not talking about the positive thinking and that kind of stuff, the world isnt all joy and happiness and there are dark moments as well of course. And those darker moments make a change as well.
What we need to realize, s that by what we do, by what we put out into the world from ourselves - is what we personally, individually add to the world we live n. We create our reality by putting nice and joyful things into it or by puring rubbish all around. And that is really all we are responsible for, our own piece of creation. Just by becoming aware of it we are already growing.
There is a whole LOT to change, but nobody needs to change the others. Make the change in yourself without expecting anyone else to do so. Many wont, simply because they are sleeping. So what? That is their decision and their right. But *I* can decide that *I* dont wish to be separated anymore, i decide to get integrated instead and I dont need anyone to integrate me: I integrate myself. Because i am free to decide and this is my decision. Not because I want the world to be a better place - even if i want it, its not a good reason because it raises expectations too high and leads to disappointments.
I do it because i decide to be this spot of the world. I want to be essecially a connected being.
It is changing the world. It is changing *my* world. My world is brighter you see. Not because im better than anyone else, but because i let more light in and also emit more light than some. Both ways openness is key here.
I think realization leads to unity more than a master plan.
This is why this place was born in the first place, to give some help for those realizations, to give some food for thought, to make those who read this ask questions and open up for new ideas.
A master plan can fail. Your openness and self awareness will never fail you. Your free choice will teach you to be ultimately responsible for your own acts and thus the world you live in.
I hope all this wasnt too confusing…
All we need is love :)