Be An Independent Thinker

You need not “pick a side.”
You can THINK FOR YOURSELF!

You can embrace the both/and.
And honor interconnectivity.

You can love across differences.
You can bridge the bifurcations.

For that’s the ticket.
To a world worthy of us.
And fit for our children.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
We must be the change.

We ourselves must willingly walk hand in hand with others…
with our fellow *earthlings*…
learning how to be a healthy human family.

It’s time to evolve beyond our rigid we’s and they’s.
Beyond our separating and segregating.

Let’s refuse division.
Let’s put an end to it.

Don’t you feel the dead weight?
Of an old paradigm already dead?

A putrefying carcass sits here.
BEGGING to be discarded.
Baggage set down at long last.

For the sake of freedom and forward movement.
For the sake of sweet relief.

Can’t you feel it?
The existential fatigue of millions and even billions of us?

So DONE with the 1001 divide-and-conquer tactics coming at us.

So sick of the spin, the psy-ops, the set-ups, and the social conditioning into “separation consciousness.”

We’re OVER the thousand ways we’re being invited to fear, reject, and malign one another.

We’re finished with the indoctrination…
with allowing our minds to be infiltrated with unsound ideas that aren’t serving us.

We’re tired of living with our hearts hardened.
We’re weary of living with pursed lips and sticks up our a$$ and endless melodramatic shuddering…
A seething in horror… at the actions of *others*.

Our nervous systems are jangled from living in this chronic state of outrage and indignation.

It’s depleting, getting swept up in the current of reactivity.

It’s diminishing to join the tug of war of who’s wrong and who’s right, who’s good and who’s bad.

It’s become normal and natural to live with our defenses up, our hackles raised, and our top lip lifted in a sneer.

Even in our sleep, our jaws clench in a combo of depression and dread… of resentment and resignation.

Aren’t we darned SICK of all this by now? And ready for something better?

For this is NO way to live…
steeping in a pot that’s being endlessly stirred.

Love + Oneness,
Naomi