I am ignorant.
But for my partner, who is vastly informed about worldly matters.
I don't watch or read the news.
I don't want to hate the "bad people."
I don't want it to be good people versus bad people.
I want it to be “people.”
Before you shake your head and state the obvious, “Burying your head in the sand is not a solution,” invite your attention to the places in your life where you may be burying your head in the sand. The defeating thoughts/habits that you tell yourself you could stop if you wanted to, but continue to play on repeat in the meantime. The vague and lingering dissatisfaction that remains unexamined because we're all too busy... Going where? And who decided on that trajectory? Is it still the right one? We often don't know, we just buck up and keep on, keeping on.
We seem caught on the splits between us and them, whichever group you choose to "other-ize." The crybaby liberals or the self-serving conservatives. Those who are surely mistaken about their version of god or 'not god.'
Perhaps consider the splits between you and your loved ones... between you and you. The times we simply carry on with business, unresponsive to the signals from ourselves and others— attention divided, feigned or even absent--furthering the split within and between. And it’s not a matter of blame. In like, there have been times others turned away from our bids to connect, or maybe hadn’t seen them, or responded so far off key, so many times, that we altogether stopped bidding. And we go on misaligned, or not seeing each other and cramming ourselves to fit where we are [head in the sand?].
Part of us believes that we are trapped and we must keep going through the motions. Not looking. AND not even aware that we're not looking.
When do you really feel alive? The spark of Alive... a surefire grower of connection within and between.
*All of this to say that of course I do bury my head in the sand. I am overwhelmed. When I peak out, I keep it nearby; the scapes of inner and who and what's in front of my face.
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