We appear to be in unmapped territory, as we find our way through coronavirus, protests, instabilities, climate change, and potential war and riots around the world. Perhaps it is time to become unwrapped rather than feeling unmapped.
I have to ask, “What is my part in my family, my community, my state, and my country?” One small body can feel minuscule when compared to billions of humans around the world. Yet, each of us has unique talents, ideas, solutions, creativity, and awareness that bring many energies and possibilities to the table. The nurse and doctor bring relief to the patient, the firemen and women put out the fires, the EMTs care for emergencies, and most often, the police help keep the peace.
We have grown to sort people and circumstances into particular envelopes then filed them deeply into our behaviors. It appears to be time to open those envelopes, clear the mold, the teachings, and to look anew at all the shutters we have built into our houses of prejudices. Good, bad, right, wrong, we can stretch our unique minds and talents toward minimizing the horrors and increasing the hopes we may now be facing.
We all, all genders, ages, ethnicities, and religions, are being offered a time to strip ourselves of lessons, beliefs, fears, lies, and superstitions that continue to support ideas of differences that do not exist. Yet, they feel real and threatening. These thoughts have been engendered since humans have been upon the planet. They have been structured by chiefs, churches, communities, contrary tribes of conflicting ideas, and especially by those who grapple for power.
Men in many cultures have been indoctrinated into patterns of aggressiveness, to fight or go to war when their ideas or desires are challenged, and to believe men are superior to women. For the gentle men is this world, other men and women must allow them their gentle feelings as they are vital to addressing world chaos, environmental eruptions, health concerns, and dangerous ideologies.
This unmapped time presents a stage ripe for new actions, new playwrights, new stories, new education, new leadership, and recognition that the only enemies we have are the ones we create through our thoughts, our feelings, and our behaviors.
This unrest is a wake-up call to love thy neighbor, care for our home, our air, water, soil, and the entire soul of the earth and all upon it.
Hate begets hate. Love begets love. When we genuinely unwrap the beauty and uniqueness of all the human race and care for this great planet, we will all truly be remapped.
Chandler © September 15, 2020