See, I have a dream, but I do not know how it ends. I know it is a dream that will not be realized through my effort alone, but by moving and growing through others who collectively can make this dream real. Because this dream is about coming together; coming together to make something more than what we are expected to expect out of life.
Moving from independence to inter-dependency by suggesting a change from, ”… life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” to “…happiness, liberty and the pursuit of life”.
Coming to a nexus; a friend and brother discovers he has cancer. A beautiful daughter whom I love to dearly to give up on this dream, and a career that does not have a heart in it for me nor I for it; all sincere, all oracles, all agents of change.
I feel very dearly that if my friend has a hard fight, the interconnected relationships he has with those he loves, his family both blood and non-blood, will be crucial in contributing energy to the fight. Despite whatever the Western prognosis, I know that there is just as great a possibility that this can be healed, as any other outcome that could happen. It’s most important that he feels this on a deep level, but his community plays a big role in supporting and maintaining this belief as a fact and truth so as to constantly reflect it for him. People should need people, should be able to rely and trust in their people for this seems to be the seat of meaning in life.
My inner voice has been too persistent in it’s conveyance that the footsteps I walk now will be a platform that intersects with my daughter’s path, when she stands at her own crux as an adult trying to wrestle with whether she will fall in line or try to fly. In addition to striving to be the best father I can be to her, I am also thoughtful of the example that I want to be for her when she finds herself at trying times, when she finds herself in a tug of war between giving up herself, giving in to life’s responsibilities and holding tight to her dreams, all the while knowing that one may be the path to success and the other happiness, but unsure of which is which.
If, with every passing generation, we continue to ignore our own internal spirit and close our minds to the possibility that each one of us, with all our uniqueness and individuality, has a path that is important and essence for the fabric of meaning and connection between all, then what example do we set for our successive generations, our children? These thoughts are so easily absorbed by our intellects and yet so overshadowed by the world at large and the status quo, that all too often they fall into the back burner labeled “Idealistic”. But how long can we continue to ignore that change will not be brought about by doing the same things and hoping one day, for a different outcome?
I invite all your thoughts, cares, criticisms, ideas and concerns.
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May 31, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Beautifully written and sincere…
The 1st thing I’d like to share with you is a link:
http://www.essiacinfo.org/essiac.html
It is to information about “essiac”, which I have, on personal recommendations, heard testimonies of how wondrous it works. On ALL kinds of cancer.
The next thing I would like to share is that however it may be perceived, we have NEVER BEEN independent. Not emotionally that is. Emotionally, we’re wanting and needy.., ticks, leeches and vampires looking to get from the outside of us, what we find ourselves lacking on the inside.
Need is NOT Love. It is a LACK of it.
Notice our coping skills? Notice how limited we have been taught to be when it comes to our Love of Life? For we only know how to embrace the experiences we deem “positive” in it?
“Virtue” means Strength, INNER strength.
And it is no feat of ’strength’, to embrace the positive, to understand the understood, to accept the acceptable or to tolerate the tolerable. It is also an unreasonable idea that if we sow judgment and condemnation, that we would reap acceptance and comforting. So those your friend will attract TO him, are going to be a mirror of his own ideas and feelings about the experience he is having.
So by all means, be a mirror of his Divinity.
{{hugs}}