It seems that every corner I look there is nothing but darkness. It's been a few years now that watching the news has made my heart all too anxious and leaves my world view as if the entire globe has gone mad -culminating for the worst. Has it always been like this? Was this always the norm, only now made exponentially more visible because of social media? This is a very familiar pattern to us humans, though. A pattern I've read about in ancient books. We take what was meant for good and turn it for evil. We continue to repeat the cycles, as if expecting different outcomes. Crazy, I know.
We have resources at our fingertips that allow us to find lost family members, connect with childhood friends, share positivity and optimism. These resources have the potential to make the 7 wonders of the world reachable to many who perhaps would never get the chance to experience it on their own. That is good! Yet, we find these same resources depleting our quality of life.
Sometimes I find myself as though I am standing in the dark, making it hard for me to enjoy the good things when they come as though its' light is too bright to be shining in the dark space for which we are in. But then I think, isn't that its' purpose? Isn't joy a light into a dark room? We must refuse to put a glass ceiling on our joy. I won't let it. I can't let it.
I heard a friend say, with social media we have three options. We can either spread positivity, negativity or nothing at all. But I feel as though too many of us have chosen nothing at all. Have I been subconsciously suppressed thinking positivity is a given. They'll get themselves out of depression eventually. What's my one encouraging comment gonna do? As I see it now, we could either continue to sit suppressed or we can bare the fruits of our soul. We could bare Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-control. We could choose to spread more positivity and maybe, just maybe -someday we will take society back as we realize that doing or saying nothing is just as bad as the negative comments that are left to rot those who consume them. Maybe then, and only then could we begin to hear the whispers of happiness. Whispers of joy that will spark more joy, that will bare more love, that will bare more patience, that will bare more kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and more control over self to practice the things that nurture our souls so that we can bare yet more.
Anyway, I guess my point is: let's be the tree that bares fruit upon fruit. That those who come across find nutrition and not dry and fruitless branches. So let the ground you stand on be firm - the soil, rich. Let's not let the negativity consume us but, instead let us shine. Let us bare all the fruits we were meant to bare, "the greatest of which is LOVE."
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