I was v busy yesterday. Partly it was responding to a status I borrowed from someone else, in which I said that anyone in need of an affirming comment could like my status and I'd say something about them I really liked. I wasn't sure of the likely uptake and indeed one person inadvertently liked it then said she wasn't fishing for compliments. Asking for nice things to be said about us is something lots of people find tricky. Yet if we all deliberately focussed on what we liked about each other, I think the world would be quite different.
You perhaps know that one of my favourite hymns is called inspired by love and anger. this was my attempt at being inspired by and acting out of, love. it's an attempt to balance my anger, tho I'm aware that there is a time for anger and I don't have to balance it on any one day. there are plenty of days when I'm not attuned to my anger at all the injustice so it's fine that right now I'm very ragey. I'm not only angry with just how unjust the world feels right now. I'm angered by people's attempts to justify injustice. those who say they are not racist or sexist. in supporting Trump , but because he is and they chose him, are condoning it. those who argue that the royal family bring in money. I do not care how much money they bring in, their privilege and shameful disregard of the current struggles people are facing disgusts me. the research I have read clearly shows that the greater the disparity between rich and poor, the unhappier and unhealthier a nation is. I wonder how they can sleep at night knowing how unfair it is, then of course have to ask how I sleep at night as it's all comparative, and I should not rest easily knowing I have more sleeping bags than I have occupants when there are those who have none.
So what to do? I need to keep on feeling and voicing this anger until I can get to a place of clarity as to how I stand up and say the world has got to change, I will no longer tolerate the way it is.
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