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In reply to the discussion: Baby boomers are killing themselves at an alarming rate, raising question: Why? [View all]napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)I have been given a very humble path, caring for people with disabilities, for the elderly, etc. It doesn't pay much, but deep within is a powerful lesson, that makes me feel blessed for having been put on this path:
God, nature, whatever always gives a society a group of people who are disabled, even when evolution could have made this not the case. I have come to realize over time that its not them who need us, its us who need them. Caring for others heals us, it empowers us.
The illusion is that it doesn't. The illusion, in your dream, is that all those people, are other than you, that they won't find themselves in the same situation, when they will. The illusion is that deep inside, they don't know this to be true.
But they do know it. We all know it. So caring for others bridges a gap between our present selves and our future selves. It establishes a timelessness of being that those who don't partake will never know.
You and I both know that the core of the situation right now is that this society, this culture, is deeply, deeply sick. All this shit is a direct manifestation of that fundamental fact. You - hell, almost anyone - can FEEL it in your bones: It isn't supposed to be this way. So all the cultural indoctrination, all the things you've been told are right, we know these go out the window. The question is, what IS right? What did you see, what did you know - in your youth or now - that went against the grain, but what shut down by the BS machine? THAT was right. THAT alone was right. That's your light.
What I'm trying to get at is the idea that we've gone way, way off course. But those of us who can see that are needed a great deal, because they have the general idea of where the right course is, that we fell off of decades ago. This information needs to be heard.
PEace