Good news is rarely reported in this world of ours.
In each minute of the horrendous events in Connecticut, last
week - which left 27 innocent children and adults dead – there were
approximately 255 births across the world… perhaps a thousand new births while
that man I don’t want to and won’t remember unleashed his madness.
I don’t believe in supernatural evil, but it’s true that
some humans are capable of expressing and executing a most unnatural and
malevolent manifestation of hate. This is a psychological aberration, rather
than demonic influence.
The mind – the egoic mind - can become a very dark place,
and it is a human trait that we can become, all too easily, lost in that
darkness.
I found out, a couple of weeks ago, that my friend from
school killed herself.
Ironically, she was a mental-health nurse, and cared for
many people through her career. She made some bad decisions, it seems… she
slept with one or more of her patients, and when that was found out, she
spiralled into that shadow of mind which convinced her that the best option was
to take her life. She died in a mental hospital.
I loved that woman, when I was a teenager… I adored
everything about her… and I mourn her. I am so sad that I wasn’t there to help
her see a way through.
I realise she’s like humanity in microcosm.
All the people she helped, and all the life she had ahead,
and she must have been so focussed on the negatives that she neglected to
realise how bright and beautiful she was… and is… and how much she still had to
give to the world.
What she did… it didn’t matter… not in the grand scheme of
things… she just had human feelings with others who had human feelings… but the
pressure from outside caused her to believe that she was no longer useful or
worthy to this world of ours. And she killed herself.
When tragedies occur, in our world – when many people die at
once – we too quickly assume that it’s the state of our world.
What we fail to remember is that for every person who dies,
many children are born; or for every celebrity divorce, multitudes more fall in
love.
We are a beautiful species, bound by love, and love is such
a special thing.
We wouldn’t still exist if we didn’t love each other.
Humanity is transforming all the time. It doesn’t take one
day of superstition to mark this.
Love.
Everyone close to you.
Love.
Everyone you think you can’t love.
Love.
Forgive.
And you WILL transform humanity.
And if you can do that, you are a gift to our species and
this Universe.
