The simple fact of being honest about who we are and what we have done is the first step toward growing into maturity. Otherwise if we lie to ourselves or refuse to admit the truth we will never grow beyond our own shame and fear. This is real simple folks. We cannot change the past no matter how we try to manipulate the truth of it. It happened and it will never change no matter how it is lied about. So letting the facts of what really happened be laid out for all, of at least someone, to see is the only way we will ever become a society that is evolving forward instead of staying still. Who am I kidding right? Who among us wants to spread the word of our past if it is ugly and disgusting? Truth is though that we have to tell someone who will listen and not judge us while informing us that our nature to be selfish and cruel is not acceptable in a civilized society.
We are all guilty of bad behavior. Did you hear me? Every one of us is guilty not only once or twice or tenfold, but most all of us many times over beyond counting. So the idea that we would assume that we are the worst of what a human being can be is ridiculous. However some of our truths are much worse than others and that is where we need to find professional counseling that will help us overcome it and face the consequences of our hidden secrets. I had a problem with alcohol and most all of my dirty little secrets have a direct link to being inebriated. I have come to terms with that and first off quit drinking. Then came my remembering of the worst of what I did and making amends where possible and being open about it with another human being. This is the only way I know of as to how to let go of the past and actually change who I was into the better version of who I am now.
What we see in our national politics with republicans is an equivalent manifestation of my own problem. Although it has little to do with alcohol it is still a vehicle toward expressing low esteem in a malicious and uncaring way. Politics, like the survival of the fittest dogma, is a virus that seeks it's comfort within us. When we humans treat each other with discriminating disrespect and indignation we are proving our own hatred and condescension without a blanket to break the fever. We live to instill the worst of who we are because we cannot get past the worst of who we were. We all change over time and that is our own personal evolution so letting go of the past by telling the truth of it is our remedy and our prize is a greater wisdom to live out the rest of our lives with.
We are all guilty of bad behavior. Did you hear me? Every one of us is guilty not only once or twice or tenfold, but most all of us many times over beyond counting. So the idea that we would assume that we are the worst of what a human being can be is ridiculous. However some of our truths are much worse than others and that is where we need to find professional counseling that will help us overcome it and face the consequences of our hidden secrets. I had a problem with alcohol and most all of my dirty little secrets have a direct link to being inebriated. I have come to terms with that and first off quit drinking. Then came my remembering of the worst of what I did and making amends where possible and being open about it with another human being. This is the only way I know of as to how to let go of the past and actually change who I was into the better version of who I am now.
What we see in our national politics with republicans is an equivalent manifestation of my own problem. Although it has little to do with alcohol it is still a vehicle toward expressing low esteem in a malicious and uncaring way. Politics, like the survival of the fittest dogma, is a virus that seeks it's comfort within us. When we humans treat each other with discriminating disrespect and indignation we are proving our own hatred and condescension without a blanket to break the fever. We live to instill the worst of who we are because we cannot get past the worst of who we were. We all change over time and that is our own personal evolution so letting go of the past by telling the truth of it is our remedy and our prize is a greater wisdom to live out the rest of our lives with.
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