When I posted this question, there was so many things that came to mind, as I thought about the many different truths that I have discovered down through the years. I would certainly see myself as a truth seeker, I really think that if we wish to evolve in life, we need to be fully aware of what is happening in the world or at least be open and willing to learn.
The older I became, the more I realized how much of our learning has been manipulated. That the only way to really know the truth, is to feel it! These are truths that have been kept from us, but some are just so obvious from the word go and it is one of those that I wish to focus on today. Because it is the one that has brought me and continues to bring me the most amount of pain.
People can be so cruel! Not all of them, I know and some are because of the circumstances that they were born into. But none the less, I find it so hard, to get my head around, how cruel some people can be. I really try, not to focus too much on things like this, instead I prefer to creating change. But the reality is, that some people really believe that they are above all others.
I grew up in a home that prepared me for the real world, I was well aware of the amount of aggression that exists and that life itself can be cruel, but that does not mean that I found it easy to accept. I really find it hard to understand, how it can be so difficult for some people to see, how all life is sacred.
I grew up in a religious country and I know full well, the brain washing that went on, how we were told, that God created the earth for us. Making some folk believe, that they can do whatever they please to our beautiful earth and all the amazing beings on it. Then there is the fact, that most religions place males, above females. Surely this is enough in itself to promote such disregard for other life forms.
All too often, I have witnessed, the cruelty that humans direct towards one another and it really makes me lose hope for a while. Their cruelty, is so often a direct result of the cruelty that they experienced and for them, the cycle needs to be broken. But for others, it is harder to understand, because they themselves have had quite privileged lives, that is where perhaps the ego comes into play.
So much darkness has come to light these last few years, cruelty that is simply unimaginable, things that I don't even want to talk about, but yet cannot and should not be ignored. The horrors of child abuse human trafficking, that have been ingrained in our history for so long. So socially acceptable by those in power.
But I am not writing this to try and understand, why they are, they way that they are, but instead to talk about how their actions, have affected the way in which I look at humans. There is a saying, that you can judge a Country by the way in which it treats animals. That one statement, has always resonated with me. And yet, I have still to discover a country that looks after animals,that does not treat them as a commodity or treat them as though they are humans.
The animal industry, is so cruel and this really speaks volumes to me, about the state of the world that we live in. A world that is still so divided, where people continue to be judged by the color of their skin, by whether or not they have decided to inject themselves with an experimental drug/gene therapy. Where the ability to think for oneself, is frowned upon and those who share their truth are now treated like terrorist's in some countries.
The divide itself is cruel, created by cruel minds who's only desire, is to see themselves stay in power. How cruel that we are seen only as numbers to them, pawns that are disposable.
I have seen the way in which this world treats women during birth, how they are placed in buildings for people who are sick, birth is sacred and putting a women in that environment dis-empowers her, when birth itself is one of the most empowering things a woman can do.
How cruel that a baby that has know no other reality, but the inside of their mother and the sound of her heart beat, is born into a world, where they are so quickly man handled and separated from the one thing, that makes them feel safe. No wonder so many people grow up experiencing anxiety. This is the root of it all.
I know that many women choose to give birth in hospitals and it should always be their choice, but when there is no other, when obstetricians are the highest paid health professions in the world, I no longer wonder why they have no choice. How cruel that profit always comes before life, before health.
Life can be so cruel, people can be so cruel and yet we live in a world of so much beauty, where there are so often, such wonderful acts of kindness. I have certainly experienced many of those acts first hand, just as I have experienced cruelty. Everything comes down to choice at the end of the day, the choices we make, which determine who we are as people.
As we move forward, I hope that more and more people make better choices and take responsibility for all of their actions. I know that we can not have one without the other,that cruelty is in fact a part of life and that is why, for me, it is one of the hardest truths of all!
