Harm None Today.
I try and I fail and I try again and I fail again and I get up and try to remember what I learned and then I forget and I fall again and I get back up and try again. And I am still here.
No one is perfect nor should we strive to be. Perfection is over rated and it is also very dangerous. But as children we are brainwashed to strive for perfection. In some schools and in some homes, nothing less than what others deem is the best will do. “Could try better” or “Does not apply herself enough” oft times appeared on my report card that was sent home every year. Well I would try better if I was interested in what they were teaching me and I have done better when I walked my own path and I would apply myself and have done many times over my life when it aligns with what feeds my soul. But a part of my psych was damaged as the message went in that only perfection is acceptable.
And I have to undo all I learned and start again.
School can be the undoing of lots of Human Beings. As a child, a very young child, I wondered; why go through all these hoops when we can just go and live in the Natural World and Be. I think we are miseducated from a young age and why is that? Because it serves the powers that be, ie the Patriarchy.
We are sent to these places called schools to be roboticized and then in so many cases, go on to work for the Man, in a Patriarchal World where the few get rich off the toil of others and we are indoctrinated into the system from such a young age that not all escape as our Natural skills, talents and gifts are left by the way side as hours, days, months and years are spent absorbing information and we become like data processing machines to serve the system before we are spat out when no longer of service.
And we trade living for a retirement plan and worse still, so so many fell for the sales pitch.
And to speak out against this regime as a woman you are labelled a bitch or in some cases a witch and what are they afraid of?
Men do not fair too well in the system/regime either. They are stepped upon and used and abused just like women but sometimes in a different way and this is how they stop people uniting. They feed the different genders different problems and issues so the narrative becomes one does not understand the other and conflict arises. This is why it is very important to listen and pay attention because it serves the Takers to keep each other apart.
Harm None is a very simple way to stay afloat and come home to yourself at the end of each day. It encompasses all and includes all under the umbrella of compassion, understanding and unity. Harming None helps all people, all living beings, all Life on this Earth. But they do not want you to know this, do they?
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A Harm None way of life helps, heals, supports, respects, understands and unites the Natural World and all the trees in the forests. It is a way to stand beside the Animal Kingdom of which we are a part of but that sadly, so many have forgotten. Harming None strives to live in harmony with All and learns from both the Indigenous people and the indigenous way.
And it means being there for the children and one another in all the ways that harm none.
Some people tell me about how brilliant and resilient and innovative and ground breaking and progressive and forward thinking the Human Species is and that may be so but it is also our greatest weakness. Maybe we need to lay down our brilliance and progressiveness and stop patting ourselves on the back and saying how amazing we are. Maybe we need to find humility in the midst of all our greatness.
Some people tell me that technology and scientific advances will save us so basically, we can sit back and watch Netflix and order take out and leave someone else to solve our global issues because in a lot of places the mantra has become, “What can I do?” or “It won’t affect me or my children”. To this one I have had to say, “Sure, but what about your grandchildren?” To which I receive silence. Because people do not think that far down the road and this is the problem. I feel.
Short sightedness and politicians more concerned about their next term of office and ensuring said term, rather than focusing on the issues to hand. And so what if you are not in office, at least plant the seeds and do the ground work so the next person does not have to do what you should have done during your term in the first place. Sadly, our leaders do not work together but spend their time grand standing and trying to outdo the opposition and waste all this time instead of working on all that needs to be accomplished. And it is farcical and it would be comical in the extreme, if so many were not getting injured and wounded along the way.
We have become the walking wounded and we do it to ourselves. We are constantly throwing stones at one another and dodging the ones that are being flung back. We have forgotten how to play and not harm one another or maybe we were never taught because the wisdom that once upon a time was passed from generation to generation about the Natural World, the Animal Kingdom and the Indigenous way has been severed in so many places and this is to our detriment.
We do not know what we are doing or where we are going and we are too afraid to ask. We are pretenders in a world filled with other pretenders too scared to hold up our hands and ask for help. We are muddling through this amazing gift called life and instead of finding our wings and soaring, we are trudging through the mud and watching what the person next to us is doing and following suit until we all are submerged in the swamp. Our brilliance our greatest friend but also our greatest enemy.
For all we build, we equally destroy and where is the sense in that?
Like the Lego House a child builds only to have another tear it down and welcome to Lego Land and the lost children’s playground.
Where we all fall down.
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