The World is Friggin, Frucked Up...Oh, What to Do...What to Do...???
When I was a child, if ever I expressed some confusion, sadness, anger, hurt etc. over an act of malevolence I saw, heard about or was a victim of...my mother's comforting words were, "There are 'some' bad people in this world, but 'most' people are good."
Unfortunately, in 'my' experience...I have found that statement 'not' to be true. I've lived a relatively long life up to this point, and my past naivety regarding this point, finally began to subside somewhere in my mid to late thirties...I was a fool until then. My victim-hood would have been considerably less in number and severity, should I have awakened earlier.
When we first begin to realize how 'fucked up' this world is, it's common for us to fight that feeling within ourselves. We don't want to believe what we begin to suspect is 'true'...because, we don't 'want' it to be true. But oh...as time goes on, the more experiences we get tangled up within, the more we lean towards, "holy shit...what a fool I've been."
Now, once that happens, the 'awakening' we then have to navigate the path to healing; hopefully healing. Some people will never heal. If it doesn't kill them, they may just go the way of suffering through pain, sorrow, hate, fear, disillusion...all that negative crap...and, stay the 'perpetual victim'.
There are others who 'think' they are healed, by striking out and becoming spiteful, hyper-vigilant, liars, cheats, thieves and all that negative stuff, while going into the offensive mode. They are going to get back at the world and the people in it who hurt them, and 'took' from them in the past...(meaning everyone) These types, become 'part' of the problem...They add to it.
Then we seem to have the 'in-between' type...These are the ones who fluctuate between feeling broken and defeated, then at times, they become stark, raving, mad lunatics...striking out at everyone and anything in their path.
Some of us just go through 'stages' of the above mentioned changes...perhaps 'most' of us fall into that category...
To come through to 'true' healing, I believe we must enter the forgiveness zone. Forgiving does not mean 'accepting' the evil and evildoers...We don't have to embrace the scumbags of the world, get all kissy and invite them into our house for a cup of tea...It is the type of forgiving were we let 'go' of them...mindfully wave them a goodbye. While at the same time, we can 'mindfully' say, "and stay the fuck away from me...you evil son-of-a-bitch.
Forgive yourself too...Forgive yourself for being stupid and naive...too nice, or whatever. Don't carry the self-abasement, stop kicking yourself in the ass...Forgive, forgive and forgive again...and, become 'new'
Become sure of the truth you've found. Resist evil whenever it raises it's ugly head. Become a teacher of the truth, whenever and wherever, you find a hungry mind...DO SOMETHING GOOD...BE SOMEONE GOOD...Being good doesn't mean you have to become a little pansy-ass either...Remember that you have the 'right' to be 'happy'...You have the right to self-protection, and the right to protect others from danger and abuse...
Even 'more so'...You 'DESERVE' to be happy...so, AngryMan wishes you happiness in this friggen, fucked up world, whenever and wherever you find it.
I'm outta here...I might have lost my point in my rambling, but you get the picture...
Ciao
Another Remarkable, Ramification of Reasoning by @angryman May 3, 2018 on Steemit
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I think your mother was right. Most people are good.
What most of us overlook is the fact that WE ALL have been fluoridated and indoctrinated for generations. We don't know any different. It is being sold to us as "normal". We learned violence and all this crap from people we trusted, because they already have been indoctrinated themselves. Look at people in small communities. They usually live together peacefully, no crime, no violence. There was no need to lock our door when I was a kid. I think that all this entitlement, greed, violence and anti social behavior is LEARNED behavior. Put into our minds through media. TV PROGRAMMING. Essentially people are good. But it will take at least 3 generations to reverse the damage created by the parasites who rule us and keep us in a mental and spiritual prison. "Awakening" is meaningless. Millions of prisoners in American jails wake up every day...
My mother 'was' wrong...She was a very young mother, with 'no' real world experience having been raised in a kind of 'small' New England town. She spent the next twenty or so years, being "not allowed" to work outside the house by a domineering husband, who kept her barefoot, pregnant and dumbed down...
She changed her tune about 'her' personal reality, after finally being able to choose her path in life years later, as a youngish widow and older children out of the house...whereupon 'she' was able to go out and work, meet new people etc.
At 90+ years of age now...her thoughts on the matter are quite, 'rightfully' different.
Thanks for commenting though. Your personal perceptions are just as interesting.