I just heard today that
Sharon Osborne is divorcing Ozzy, and I don’t mind telling you that I was
totally floored to hear it. Certainly, I
cannot know all of the intricacies of their relationship and all of what went
in to Sharon’s decision to make the break after 33 years, but I can tell you
that there always has to come a point when what you are doing or how you are
living is no longer in your best interest.
When that point does come it is inevitably going to be hell
disentangling yourself from what no longer can serve you in a balanced way. It
is a fact that the way we are living as humans on planet earth is no longer
working well, but walking away from what is preventing a positive and
meaningful existence is a tough order.
Do not expect the transition to be comfortable.
I have always loved the song,
Imagine
by John Lennon. I heard that his intent
in recording it was to convey the positives of Communism. It is a beautiful song with some very
convincing ideals as far as having “Nothing to kill or die for” with respect to
not having divisions in land or property or possessions, but I understand why
so many people aren’t capable of “imagining” a life like that. To do so would be about like the followers of
Jesus, as told to us in the bible, that they supposedly dropped what they were
doing and abandoned the lives that they had been living to follow someone who,
they believed, could change the world and society for the better. It might have
been a more simple transition back in biblical times to do such a thing but I
can tell you that the times that we are living in would most likely land us in
jail or divorce court or worse if we suddenly decided to walk away from the
capitalist slave society that has been built around us. It truly is an impossible dream to think that
we could wake up tomorrow and just walk out the door and leave the troubles
behind and dedicate ourselves to a way of life that could change all of
humanity for the better. We have made an
intricate and very complicated web of connections around ourselves that make it
extremely difficult to drop it like it’s hot.
You would first have to decide where the web of connections has the
least amount of hold on you. For most of
us it will require small, baby steps to begin with, and there are no guarantees
that we will not fall on ours asses several thousand times before we are
free.
You are the only one who
knows what is causing you the most pain and grief and keeping you tied to a
society that has gone much too far in proclaiming that there is worth in
staying tied to it. You will never stop
being told that is has worth and it will keep you happy because there is much
money to be made for others by keeping you in line with their ideals. The most prevalent idea is that you must
become a consumer of goods and never stop consuming them because that is the
only way that the people who have set up this complicated prison can keep their
position. You have to pay for it. If
you think this is not true then skip on to another issue that might be blocking
you, but ask yourself if you really need to have so many changes of clothing or
so many cars or so much jewelry, and do you really have room for all of it?
In my old neighborhood there
were some very nice houses along my drive to my house that sometimes had the
garage doors open on any given day. You
could see that the garages were crammed full of so much stuff that they
couldn’t possibly use it for its purpose of housing a car. I realized just how much of a consumer that I
have been, especially in times of depression and fear. The first thing that I always wanted to do
was go out and spend some money on something that would make me feel good. It is true that this temporary “fix” does
help in the moment. I have about 400 cds
and almost that many dvds that I have a devil of a time finding places for but
I cannot bear to get rid of them.
Supposedly, ipods and streaming internet music and films does away with
this hoarding of media behavior, but I find that even though I use those things
I still find it difficult to part with the possessions that, at one time,
helped me get through a perceived crisis point in my life. Whatever you might be hoarding in your house
because it got you through a difficult moment in life, it is good to remember
that as long as these things cannot be let go of, they own you. Just as people, jobs, clothes, food, drugs,
cars, books, needing attention and approval from others or sex owns you and
keeps you doing the same unneeded things every day.
As in Sharon Osborne's case,
it is hard to pull yourself away from people that you have been following, or
supporting, or believing in for a long time.
Some relationships become very toxic to us before we will even admit out
loud that they are detrimental to us. I
have been through breakups and a divorce myself and they are very painful but
usually very necessary to maintain being true to yourself. Some relationships and bonds that we have
with others are nowhere near as physically close to us but they are destroying
what we are and who we are nonetheless by our attachment to them even if that
attachment is only perceived on our part, such as a belief and devotion to the
people who govern us. It is said that
you can judge the worth of a president or any political leader by the quality
of your life while they are in power. It would be wise to ask yourself if your
life is such, right now, that you could say you have been represented well by
someone who pays more than lip service to what a society needs to thrive and
live in peace. Does everyone have a home
and something to eat everyday in your town, or your state, or your country? These are very basic needs that everyone and
everything on the planet is entitled to.
You were put here to thrive and evolve in a world that has at it’s
disposal all of the things that make that possible. Do you have it? If you are sick do you have a way of getting
to wellness without bankrupting yourself?
Can you trust the doctor or
healthcare provider that is available to you?
You might also ask yourself if you have stable employment which provides
you with sufficient income to manage a decent place to live in a safe
neighborhood? I hope that you do, but
realize that there are thousands of people who don’t and though there may be
some slackers who don’t even try, by and large most people do not want to live
in a substandard way just to avoid getting up off their asses. A society that cares about the whole of the
populace is necessary for the mountain of social problems that we have
now. You can blame anyone that you like
for the inequality that we are experiencing in the world but the bottom line in
any society that allows too much for some and not enough for others is
representation by a governing body that does not believe in the worth and value
of human life unless that life is somehow contributing to their own wealth and
aspirations. There is a saying in
American politics that some states in America are only “fly over states”. which
means that those living in those particular states have no political worth to
them and will not benefit their own agenda.
“Ignore them. they are of no consequence to me.” When you hear comments like this from any political
power or representative please think a second and a third time before you
continue to allow them to 4stay in power.
You may only have one vote every two to four years but you have a voice
and access to the internet 24/7. If
others do not see the toxic behavior and narcissistic attitude of the people
who should be representing all of the people you need to ask yourself if you
are in a position to call attention to this.
If you are not, you can still cast your values in to the universe with
your refusal to openly support people like this and your infinite connection to
the source of all creation by merely objecting in meditation and not
associating with people who consider it okay to allow humans to be denied the
best possible kind of life. It is not easy
to turn your back on people that you have believed in or people that you are
related to by whatever kind of connection but if we don’t object to their
contribution to the collapse of humanity then we are being complicit in it
continuing to grow, and thrive and destroy us.
You may not be among the first of the casualties of an uncaring and
selfish way of living but I can promise you that you will not remain unscathed
by it forever. If your life at this
moment is one that is good and positive and meets your basic needs I am very
happy for you, but for those who do not have those things we will forever be a
slave to their needs in the form of crime.
When there is no other way to have the basic things in life that we
should all be entitled to you will have to live in fear of them taking from
you, or your children, and your community.
The universe has provided enough for everyone, and it is only in a world
that denies these basic needs to others in favor of itself that living things
will inevitably become scavengers of those needs by stealing from those who
have them. All human beings aside, even
wildlife has lost what was once rightfully theirs by virtue of merely showing
up on the planet. It is human intervention
that has made other species go extinct or become endangered to the brink of
extinction by taking too much of the resources that were given to us. Possibly by not realizing it, we are the
cause of the extinction of countless humans every single day by just ignoring
that they are dying because of want and a lack of empathy. No, one person cannot stop this, but
thousands making the decision today to stop supporting a separatist and elitist
world that keeps us doing it’s selfish bidding for it every day because we are
so used to only thinking in terms of our
own needs can.
I have promoted a way of life
in this blog for the past two years that starts with the principle that we have
to learn who we are through astrology, self analysis, connection to spirit, and
what we are capable of and not capable of by standing alone and looking at what
we came here with to make the best of our existence. In the beginning, this is an act of self or
selfishness. But once these things are
learned they are meant to send you out into life armed with an inner truth and
an inner awareness of ourselves that can make the world over into something
that evolves into hope and help for all once we realize that thinking only of
yourself is not a part of it. That
lesson has been learned by so few of us on the course of human existence. If we continue to refuse to face what we are,
what we may be, and why we are here we face total destruction of life because
our resources cannot be sustained without people who know how to keep them
alive. Sadly, the generation that will
come into power soon will not have learned the necessary skills to make sure
that the planet can maintain life on it.
You may not see its demise in your lifetime, but the tracks have already
been laid to send us on a runaway train to total annihilation. The Native American's used to say that nothing
lives forever except the rocks. We cannot
even be sure that they will survive now. To pull away from those things that
have brought on the downward spiral of life on this planet is our only
recourse. We risk everything by not
realizing our own part in stopping the descent.
