A Race of Fear

I can't imagine anything more horrifying than rape, oppression and enslavement. It's enough to make one run away from all reminders of it, but then I don't believe in bad luck or that you become what you are conscious of.

If I see a black cat I try to make friends with it and the number thirteen doesn't bother me at all.

Also when I meet a woman or a person of color who may speak of a history of violence and injustice I don't shun them. Nor do I hide from a person in power who may try to control me.

Every thinking person is expected to hold his township, race, creed, gender and country above all others. Even if they do so pleasantly and without aggression they may still be termed "-ISTS" (race-ist, sex-ist, national-ist...). They have, even if it is in a mild form, some prejudice of one ice cream flavor over another.

I, too, am an -IST, but I choose the entire human race and not just sub-sections of it. I like people better than dogs and cats and squirrels and I love dogs and cats and squirrels. But I wouldn't marry a dog a cat or even a cute little squirrel.

I think it's terrible that people fear and hate one another, but what's worse is that they let that fear and hatred control their present day actions leading to ongoing cycles of misunderstanding and violence.

There IS rape, oppression and slavery in the world. It's terrible, but it exists and pretending it doesn't only gives it room to grow.

All you can do is choose NOT to rape, oppress and enslave because you can only control yourself. Others will see this example and the hold of fear will lessen and eventually be lost.

It may seem like wishful thinking, but then what other kind of thinking is there? Fearful?

Ask Away

Since answers rarely satisfy it is the forming of the questions themselves that may help to bring wisdom.

No wonder little kids are stuck in perpetual loops of asking "why? why? why?"