How About Peace of Mind.

I hope everyone is having an excellent and enjoyable holiday season. I say season because many beliefs have extended times: Hanukkah, the twelve days of Christmas, Kwanzaa, and many more with which I may not be familiar. This time of year, has been a special time since the ancients noticed the days lengthening and welcomed the coming Spring, the yearly cycle coming around once again.

It has been a time for people to come together, be joyous, and celebrate. Strangely, a season that celebrates togetherness often becomes divisive because others don’t believe the same way as us.

To me, that is so much horseshit, bullshit, or whatever kind of shit. It’s still … well, you know. So many refuse to understand that every person believes differently than everyone else. No two people see things the same way. However, we are all almost identical. Maddening.

We all want people to hold the same beliefs as we do. The kicker is this: we don’t want to believe like them, they must believe like us.

Yes, it’s annoying as hell.

The words “they” and “them” have been used to discuss this a lot; that sounds like paranoia to me, and that is a large part of the world’s problems today. It is possible to say “us,” instead, an inclusive us, and I’m not talking about our country here. I’m using those two letters to represent inclusion with everyone.

Yes, I understand it takes some selflessness, but that doesn’t mean it is submitting to oblivion. It means finding camaraderie.

Let me be clear. What I’m talking about is NOT wakefulness, where a group of individuals decide what is acceptable for everyone else and then hold people hostage because they have not submitted to their propped-up image. If you think this through, think deeply about it; that is exactly the opposite of what I am suggesting.

I am advocating relaxing our egos and letting communal thoughts blossom; it is not forcing anyone to do anything in any way—shaming, bullying, pressuring, controlling, et cetera. What I’m suggesting is that this should be all about unwinding peer pressure and opening commonality. Why should we focus on differences? Why not lift the fact that we are all Children of the Universe and celebrate what connects us all?

It could start small, with two, three, or a handful of people at a time who commit to softening our edges just a smidge. Trust someone and look at what they believe. After all, if we hadn’t trusted another’s viewpoint, we would still be eating raw meat off the carcass. How about we let things grow in newfound ease and love.

Now, there’s a thought. It’s not new either; it’s been around forever.

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