This Lent, let us engage in serious, uncomfortable and truthful reflection on our condition as human beings and the human condition in all the spaces we exist, read about and watch stories about.
But for the His mercy and the accident of birth, we could be the beggar, the imbecile, the mentally ill, the addicted, the vagabond, the undesirable, the unacceptable, the loser; the one whom we scorn; as much as we could be the wealthy, the brilliant, the stable, the wise, the victor and the one whom we are and have been in this roller coaster journey called Life.
Let us challenge ourselves to be more compassionate, more understanding and more empathetic of the various permutations of the human condition as lived and experienced by those whom, but for the accident of birth, would be us, and us, them.
Let us challenge ourselves to find good in even the most unacceptble, in the one whose actions have been harmful, hateful, hurtful, misogynistic, racist, antisemetic, the most undesirable amongst us, and whom we would prefer to dismiss and relegate to the periphery of humanity.
Truly, we are all just caterpillars in a cocoon, perceived as beautiful by some and as locusts/plagues by others. We are all in some stage of hibernation in all stages of our lives. Always on the verge of fulfilling the next level, to arrive at the next stage of our existence, in pursuit of the metamorphosis that is our destiny-that butterfly stage where we fly off into the fulfillment of our destinies. Without manual or text, we all stumble about this dimension, sometimes within some boundaries, and at other times without, in pursuit of some measure of survival at each level, but always in pursuit of our vision/our perception, our best life at every stage. Some may not understand, but as we traverse, we see of ourselves what others can’t, except through the lens of empathy and love for others.
Let’s challenge ourselves this Lent to see the humanity in everyone as we go about living, journeying and traversing life in this dimension of existence, cascading through, around and over the many experiences and obstacles that are the natural incident to being alive. #love #bestlife #empathy #lent #butterfly #humanity #peace love #humanity #life #bestlife #benice