We belong to each other

I remember a big part of my undergrad career was learning about oppression. And there’s a lot. In the history of humanity, but certainly in America’s history. I remember having long conversations about how people have historically struggled for far too long. And made conjectures of why that was.

I now understand this much more fully. I can recognize that we as people, feel a need to protect ourselves biologically. And the more hurt we have been exposed to, the more we feel we need to protect and defend ourselves, which means literally anything can be perceived as a threat. So we perceive differences as threats and fight instead of understand. But it could be different. We can heal, and we can perceive life more reality based instead of with landmines at every turn.

My point of saying all of this is to gently remind us all, that we need to work towards a more safe, healed world. We can start with our own little worlds and it ripples out into bigger and bigger healing waves. We are intricately all part of the same human fabric, and what we do to one person affects us all. We belong to each other.