Thanks and support

I just wanted to share my thoughts and thanks..

As someone who has been bullied, criticised, beaten and shamed for the differences that I hold while being a straight white male, I'd like to extend my arms in human solidarity and love.

I question in a time of such interconnectivity why our species is so divided? When it comes down to the pin point of understanding, we can share the ability of empathy; as we use it on our own accord for the elements of life that make our personal spaces a place we choose to inhabit. This space has its own flow, that with a dissolving of persecution and hatred, we can extend beyond just the reach of ourselves and into others… even into the lands in which we tread.

This internal shaming of self and others, needs to stop. For at our cores, we are all beautiful humans. Beautiful, conscious and connected humans with nothing but our all to give. 

A few months ago I wrote a piece and feel it of worth to share with you all.. 

In the bizarre world we find ourselves in, take a moment to reflect on your values. 

Contemplate your heights and your shortcomings. 

Breathe in the space around you and feel your inner turnings. 

Find where you sit in the centre and question what you stand for. 

Be critical of where your ego dances and observant of where your arrogance and ignorance sleeps. 

For we don't know what we don't know and yet we believe that we know what others should or already do.

This is all not a question of blame but a quest of acknowledgement. 

This is not a journey of persecution or internal retribution but a path towards understanding. 

Find your values, not just your morals. 

Find your weakness and share with it the love that its fear deserves. 

Cry when it becomes painful and let your hot tears of anguish roll down your faces into a sea of forgiveness.

Swim in it but do not drown. 

For when you find the shores of acceptance, you will have learned to swim better than you had before in days gone by. 

Laugh when you see the smallest of joys, as in a butterfly pulling itself out of a cocoon and let your laughter fill the voids unfillable. 

Then when you experience the joys of extremity, they will fill your cups with smiles of excess.

Guide your actions on the reflections of self and find the ways of acceptance and progression. 

For without a true understanding of self and the mystery within, how can we ever lay any discernment for those surrounding us and the wills of their actions.  

I share the above piece in respects to all family, no matter what hue we find ourselves akin to. Not to question the position of truth you have found within but to acknowledge the paths of trials and tribulations many have battled through, internally and externally while finding the one or more of the many truths that we hold as our own. 

This journey through life, is a grand exploration of self on many levels and how else can it be? I am incredibly proud to know that community has the strength of Self to be open to all facets of diversity.. I'm proud to offer care and understanding to beings, in what ever vibrancy they bring.

You are so loved.