I am sick of getting emails from robots. I feel like, back in the day, people used to email each other because it was a quick way to get a personal message from one body to another. Now a-days, it’s always robots trying to solicit you, or, if you’re lucky, it’s a business email. I find myself leaping at the chance to open up an email that is from an actual warm-bodied human being...Even if the topic may be unpleasant. I am so happy to find that another person took the time to write to me, even if it’s just about a business matter. If a person actually just writes me to say hello or tell me they care, it’s a bonanza in my house. It makes my heart more warm than you can imagine--I get so excited!
On another tangent, I feel like the amount of technology we have is ironically getting to a point where it’s debilitating, rather than helpful. I feel it is taking away the one real advantage human beings have over other animals which is empathy. You see, everything is just too easy. There aren’t enough consequences on a personal, human level. People can just say whatever they want to withouth looking the person they’ve just injured in the eyes. You always don’t have to spend as much time laboring over how to say something to someone or what to do because you can just text them. It has the potential to turn people (especially young kids) into low-level sociopaths, if we’re not careful.
We also use these technology as a crutch. There have been many times where I have chosen to watch Netflix, text or peruse social media over dealing with how I actually felt, because, well, it made me feel better than sitting and dealing with myself. Techonology has made it supremely easy to pretend like everything is going great when really you’re crumbling. It has allowed us to focus on only select part of ourselves without really getting into the gritty stuff. Unfortunately, unless we allow ourselves to feel and acknowledge the unpleasant aspects of our lives, we cannot grow.
Technology has made it easier to deceive everyone, most importantly (and detrimentally), ourselves. I think I have a real compulsion to delve into the technology world whenever I start to feel unpleasant/uncomfortable feelings. Honestly, at this point grabbing your phone is the modern day equivalent of drinking-it lowers your inhibitions, it makes you feel “cool” and like you belong. Much like alcohol, it is simply a temporary solution to a much bigger problem that has the potential to be solved, if you just put down the phone and look at yourself.. I am challenging myself to do this, will you do it too? I hope so. Let’s bring back caring about people (including ourselves) more than machines.
Love,
Lo
Friday, September 20, 2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Nothing Human is Alien To Me
Together we stand, but standing, or seated, we're never really apart. It is our great tragedy that we, as humans, believe we can ever be separate from one another. We are connected to every person and every action each person produces. Above all, I know this to be true.
There is one quote from Maya Angelou that forever changed my perspective and "accidentally" propelled me into becoming a songwriter, "I am a Human Being, nothing Human can be Alien to me". This quote explains life on this planet perfectly, as far as I can see it. Maya explains this line by saying something to the effect of, "I realized, that as a person, I am capable of the greatest good that a human can do, and with that, also, the most atrocious evil."
We must have the awareness that when we perform positive acts, a collective pulse of joy travels through the souls of the world, and in contrast, that when we put out evil, a collective cry is experienced in every soul. Therefore, we have no room to judge anyone else, and can only go toward understanding, as when you judge or condemn another, you are ultimately judging and condemning yourself. I've said it before, and I'll continue to say it until my dying day, but the simple fact of the matter is that if unconditional love for ourselves and our fellow human was our number one goal, everything else would fall into place. Work to make love your first reaction.
As Maya says, "If we can do that [see that we are capable of] about the negative, just think of what we can do about the positive." In other words, since light always trumps darkness, if we, as humans, are capable of the most heinous crimes, then we, as humans, are also capable of an even greater level of the most miraculous good. For even Jesus said, "Even the least among you is capable of all I have done and GREATER." Greater! That is so inspiring to me. That a person who literally created miracles through love is telling me and all of my fellow species-mates that we are capable of even greater miracles! The thought alone brings tears to my eyes.
There is so much evidence in the world of the obstacles love, understanding and truth can overcome. Why don't we commit today to understand instead of condemn, to love instead of hate and to be honest instead of living a lie. See a reflection of yourself in everyone you meet. Love the reflection you see. Remember, what we don't like in other people most often reveals what we don't like in ourselves. It's called projection. Stop it. Learn that when you hurt one you hurt all. So choose to help many. Love until it hurts, hurt until it heals. And know that we can never be divided.
Whether we like it or not, we can never separate from where we came. We are all connected through the soul. We are all of the same source. We are one.
The Maya Video :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe-6h0T2qt4, this one talk inspired me to write my first song:
My Song: "Nothing Human":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFGNozHHWeg
Sending you love,
Lo :-D
There is one quote from Maya Angelou that forever changed my perspective and "accidentally" propelled me into becoming a songwriter, "I am a Human Being, nothing Human can be Alien to me". This quote explains life on this planet perfectly, as far as I can see it. Maya explains this line by saying something to the effect of, "I realized, that as a person, I am capable of the greatest good that a human can do, and with that, also, the most atrocious evil."
We must have the awareness that when we perform positive acts, a collective pulse of joy travels through the souls of the world, and in contrast, that when we put out evil, a collective cry is experienced in every soul. Therefore, we have no room to judge anyone else, and can only go toward understanding, as when you judge or condemn another, you are ultimately judging and condemning yourself. I've said it before, and I'll continue to say it until my dying day, but the simple fact of the matter is that if unconditional love for ourselves and our fellow human was our number one goal, everything else would fall into place. Work to make love your first reaction.
As Maya says, "If we can do that [see that we are capable of] about the negative, just think of what we can do about the positive." In other words, since light always trumps darkness, if we, as humans, are capable of the most heinous crimes, then we, as humans, are also capable of an even greater level of the most miraculous good. For even Jesus said, "Even the least among you is capable of all I have done and GREATER." Greater! That is so inspiring to me. That a person who literally created miracles through love is telling me and all of my fellow species-mates that we are capable of even greater miracles! The thought alone brings tears to my eyes.
There is so much evidence in the world of the obstacles love, understanding and truth can overcome. Why don't we commit today to understand instead of condemn, to love instead of hate and to be honest instead of living a lie. See a reflection of yourself in everyone you meet. Love the reflection you see. Remember, what we don't like in other people most often reveals what we don't like in ourselves. It's called projection. Stop it. Learn that when you hurt one you hurt all. So choose to help many. Love until it hurts, hurt until it heals. And know that we can never be divided.
Whether we like it or not, we can never separate from where we came. We are all connected through the soul. We are all of the same source. We are one.
The Maya Video :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe-6h0T2qt4, this one talk inspired me to write my first song:
My Song: "Nothing Human":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFGNozHHWeg
Sending you love,
Lo :-D
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