I've been an observer my whole life. As I grew up I was always watching and learning from the things I observed. I was a quiet kid, but always
watching, always noting things I see. I grew up in a world where my thoughts and feelings counted for nothing. I was dismissed and silenced. So I
observed. I was told I was dumb and would never amount to anything. And for a long time I believed that. When I was 12 I took an IQ test and we
learned that, in fact, I had a pretty high IQ. Borderline genius, was the way it was first described to me back then. But yet, this tangible proof
that i was in fact very smart, and not dumb at all, did not stop the mental beating I took in the form of words like "you're worthless." Even after
finding out the truth, the truth was dismissed and swept under the rug, not to ever be validated. I was raised by mind games. From someone who was
very sad, and very dark in spirit (is what I've come to learn). One thing that did come from my upbringing is the fact that I know manipulation when I
see it. It's really hard to get anything past me. I can be fooled tho. Instead of me following down the path of dealing with things in the manner in
which I was taught, I went the opposite way and became very in tune with my own feelings (very high EQ as well) and since I'm such an observer I am
just as much in tune with other people's feelings. I've always said I can feel people's energies (or vibrations) and thus has made me an extremely
empathetic person. I feel compassion deeply. Especially when I see it in others. This is where things like mercy and forgiveness come into play. I
know what it feels like to truly
hurt, and so I am apt to feel other people's pain.
The person who raised me lacked these things: love, mercy, forgiveness, compassion, empathy and even sympathy for others. So, being raised by this, I
now know how to spot where these things are lacking.
On our journey of progress to have more cool stuff, we were introduced things like social media. This form of communication has taken away things like
compassion for one another. And no I'm not talking about someone writing some sappy words so others can see how wonderful they are. I'm talking about
the people that aren't "on your friends list," or you're not "following, or being followed" by. I mean we have gotten so use to attacking anything
that's unfamiliar or different from us that we treat random people without any compassion or understanding; let alone forgiveness and mercy. Heck, I
mention the word
love and get laughed out of conservations. Let alone try and teach what it means to actually show
love for another
fellow human being. Nowadays if they don't stand on the same opinion as ours, say on something like abortion, then they are our enemies and to be
dismissed as nothing worth our time. Now, I do still see compassion, mercy, empathy, sympathy, love out there in the world. But it is so small
in comparison to the opposite things I see. These tiny little acts of love for each other get drowned out by all the
unhelpful things like
hate, fear, coveting, judging, disliking others just because they don't think like you. So, in our pursuit of our little fame and self glorifying (ie
social media) we have lost compassion and understanding for the souls/people that are on the other side of the words. We got so use to attacking one
another on the internet that we have chiseled away our ability to act in honorable ways towards one another. We're seeing more issues, more things to
divide us and make us feel like we are enemies, and slowly, more and more we are losing the things that will actually help us get through this
madness. We've gotten so used to
exercising our right to speak , and making sure we hit back anything that challenges us, that we are in that
defense mode in all aspects of socializing and even just existing with each other.
So, if you want to change the world, just be nice. Love is a powerful thing... Don't let these things slip away anymore than they have. The paradigm
shift should be a shift back towards these things.
We are stronger together, and just might have to take care of each other very soon.
Love, mercy, kindness, gentleness, compassion, empathy/sympathy. If we applied these things more the world would be much more tolerable and dare I
say.... pleasant.
Thanks for reading.
edit on 21-1-2023 by AOx6179 because: (no reason given)