What dreams do you envision?
How do you imagine the ideal world?
Think about an ideal world for you, and then think about an ideal world for everyone.
Really take time to think about this.
It makes a difference.
World Peace
Begin Today
The Collapse & Renewal of “The System”
Can you feel it?
The tensions rising along with the sea levels.
Awareness rising in the corruption that has contaminated the entire world from micro to macro levels and everything in between.
I know you can feel it. I can too.
We’re coming to a tipping point in the Systems we’ve built throughout the previous centuries.
These Systems can’t last if we want to last as a human race.
The game of Power, Corruption, and Deception are fading, making way for an up to date and well founded System.
Is it difficult to believe that it’s possible to have Systems built on Trust, Cooperation, Shared Success, and Forgiveness that disciplines with love and does not punish mindlessly?
When a baby is learning to walk and they fall, do you punish them?
Do you tell them “You’re no good. You’re never going to be able to walk. Don’t even try it. Go to your crib.”
Or do you lift them up and encourage them, knowing that they will walk one day.
In life, when we humans are learning to “human,” and we make a mistake we are usually punished for it.
There’s no love in punishment so there’s no real growth. I understand if you believe there is love in punishment because that is what recent generations have been raised to believe. But many many studies show how punishment is not working!
Here is an article from Psychology Today discussing the many ways punishment impacts your child, including how punishment does not teach your child accountability. Also 10 ways to guide children without punishment is included in this article.
Here is a Pinterest page sharing many articles on how to love your kids and others unconditionally as well as how to deal with aggressive or inappropriate behavior in others.
I don’t know the full solution but I do know that discipline with love would help.
Is that hard to do? Absolutely.
And it’s easy to punish.
We all know that beautiful things take time to flourish, such as a flower. It needs cared for and nurtured to grow. If we punish the flower by cutting part of it off it will never be able to blossom into the flower it is meant to become.
Of course there will be resistance and some discomfort against the new System, as there is with all fights for justice, but in the end “the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice,” as MLK Jr. once said.
They say if it’s not broken don’t fix it…But we’ve got ourselves a broken System.
I do love my country but don’t you also want a better life for future generations of all backgrounds?
Education. Politics. Athletics. Business. Hollywood. And just about all current Systems have some corruption within them.
You can’t blame them though. That’s just how it’s been.
But it’s a new day. It’s a new era.
The shame blame game will hopefully come to an end and love with discipline can take its place.
No one is perfect, and until we can fully realize that and change how we deal with all our imperfections and how we treat each other, we just won’t last.
Who am I to write this? Just a flawed fellow human on this journey of life, trying to figure it out.
But we adapt. That’s what we do as humans. Look at history.
Shall we adapt once more?
What methods do you believe would contribute to a more stable and just System?
The Basis for Global Equality & The One Thing That Will Truly Transform The World
“There are so many things we all make a necessity that aren’t a necessity,” I wrote in a journal a few months ago…
This led me to asking not “what does the world need most?” Because the world will be fine with or without humans. But “what do we, as humans, actually need to survive & evolve?” …Food, Sleep…& Clean Water even more so, which millions of people don’t have access to.
What blew my mind even more was that about 20 minutes before I thought & wrote about human necessities, I was thirsty, but didn’t drink the filtered bottled water next to my bed because I had refilled it a day or two before & thought “this is old.”
Minutes later in the moment I was writing about water I had an earnest realization about how much myself & many others take any type of water for granted. So I drank the water & it tasted, like water. A yearning was also sparked in me to raise awareness on the water crisis & help in any way I can.
This post is primarily meant to raise awareness on the water crisis going on in the world, but it may also open your mind up to a new way of thinking. Food & water are a privilege that many of us take for granted.
Some water statistics pulled from multiple sites:
• Every minute a newborn dies from infection caused by lack of safe water and an unclean environment. (WHO, 2015) (wateraid.org)
• 1 in 10 people lack access to clean water. (charitywater.org)
• 2.3 billion people don’t have a decent toilet & 31% of schools don’t have clean water. (WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) Report 2017) (wateraid.org)
•By 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas. (http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/drinking-water)
• Worldwide, 1 out of every 5 deaths of children under 5 is due to a water-related disease. (thewaterproject.com)
•More statistics here: https://thewaterproject.org/water-scarcity/water_stats
What is the one thing that will help transform us & the world we live in? …
Unconditional Love
I know there are numerous amounts of issues that need to be resolved on this planet. Not “our” planet, because we don’t own it, but they are all important & can be resolved in time through the means of unconditional love.
I believe creating clean water systems & giving people access to clean water is one of the most important needs for people as a whole. I know equality at every level in the world is out of balance, but it is especially out of balance for those who don’t have access to a human’s most basic survival needs. Without clean water people are constantly in survival mode, can never grow, & are dying without ever being able to enjoy many parts of life we take for granted.
Water is a beginning solution for growth, just like flowers, plants, vegetables & so many forms of what life is made of. Why don’t we share the joy of water with others? We’ve seen where fear has taken the human race. Why not give love a chance?
Love, unconditional love is what is needed to transform hearts & minds which in turn will transform the world. Giving without expecting anything in return. Giving with joy. & yes, to the pessimistic, the unconditional love a person gives will often be misused, but what you can’t currently see are the seeds being planted from unconditional love. These seeds will one day blossom into beautiful flowers as we & the world transform.
World peace is a possibility. Your fear is what holds you back from thinking it is a possibility…Think about ways in which you can live in a state of love, unconditional love, which is an action…
Patience is an action. Kindness is an action. Not boasting or being proud is an action. Not dishonoring others is an action. Being selfless is an action. Not being easily angered is an action. Not keeping record of wrongs is an action. Not delighting in evil but rejoicing in the truth is an action. Always protecting, trusting, hoping & persevering are actions. Love never fails as Corinthians gives us these traits of love.
Do I fail at loving unconditionally? Yes, often. But I work on it. I remind myself to look toward the traits of love & think about how I can act with unconditional love. We might not feel like being patient, but we can still choose to be patient. Love is an action, not a thought.
Anyway! I took hours to research water non-profit organizations & found many that seem great & reliable. In the end, wherever I donate to, I can’t know whether my money will go to helping build a sustainable water system or be given to an employee who is working to resolve the water crisis. Either way I know it will go toward a good cause & it will help people. (I looked up the statistics for how much of each organization’s donation go to helping others & how much goes to employees—Most use 90% to help and 10% for administration/work related—At least the ones I mention.)
I found that charitywater.org is the most reliable & popular water non-profit, but I donate & want to get more involved with waterforpeople.org as I see their potential & hope to work with an up & coming non-profit organization. I want to raise more awareness on this crisis & hopefully one day go out & physically work to build clean water systems & create sustainable plans for communities.
Another water non-profit I think is good is wateraid.org.
water.org is another popular water non-profit that is doing amazing things but I am not sure how to think about the loans they are giving to people in need of clean water…I want to be part of a group that gives & doesn’t expect anything in return for it, but someone could explain the pros of the loans?
There are a million, maybe billions of issues we have as humans, so whatever cause you are helping with, you are appreciated. I believe that the things done in authentic unconditional love will ultimately be the things that transform us & the world around us.
Your genuine desire to help will be what changes this world.
3 Reasons to Create a World Anthem and a New American National Anthem
It’s time to create a World Anthem and change the U.S. National Anthem
I do not write this to be against the United States of America and it’s people. I write this for the U.S., it’s people, and for the World.
3 Reasons to Create a World Anthem and New National Anthem for America
- The U.S. National Anthem promotes War and Brutal Competition
- The Anthem is highly Outdated
- To bring the people of the World Together
- The United States of America National Anthem promotes War and Brutal Competition
The American National Anthem is a War poem, promoting an “Us Against the World” mentality. The Anthem originates from the U.S. winning a war against the British in the early 1800’s.
Francis Scott Key wrote a poem called “Defense of Fort M’Henry” in the year 1814 after the British could not conquer Fort McHenry and the American flag was still standing. This poem (Current U.S. National Anthem) was printed in newspapers and became very popular but it wasn’t officially used until many years later. The Navy used this poem officially in the year 1889 and called it “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson wanted this Anthem to be played at all official events and in 1931 it was finally adopted as the official National Anthem of The United States of America.
War is always brutal, and it especially was in the 1800’s—Over 200 years ago… War has been going on basically since the beginning of time, but we are reaching a point in time where war is not needed anymore. We are not living in the 1800’s or the 1900’s. This is 2017! This is the future that people have been dreaming of. People in America have more rights than they have ever had, but of course there are still injustices.
There may always be conflicts but these conflicts can be solved in peaceful ways. The peaceful path is harder. War is the easy path. Just as negativity is easy and weeds grow on their own, positivity takes patience and persistent effort like creating a beautiful garden. Do you want to create beauty? Or are you okay with vile as an entirety?
One step at a time—Let us begin by changing our National Anthem to an Anthem that ALL people can celebrate.
2. The Anthem is Highly Outdated
The year is now 2017 if you forgot. Man created time in a way that it moves forward, not backwards. Change is inevitable. We live in a day and age where anyone can be who they want to be.
For example, Bruce Jenner is now Caitlyn Jenner—Things like this were not happening before the 2000s, at least from famous figures. Everyone has an opinion about all things, but have you ever thought that your opinion might be wrong?
Trump thinks all his opinions are right, which reminds me of this quote: “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool” William Shakespeare.
Trump is a very smart business man, but he has a hard time looking forward; he wants to live in the past, like our anthem. Some people love his arrogant confidence but he should do a little more thinking in that oval office; although his “little rocket man” comment was kind of funny.
Trump would be a great leader in the 1800’s as he is trying to “Make America Great Again,” but we don’t need to make America great again. It already is great and it can get better if we continue to adapt and move forward. Wise leadership is a necessity!! Many politicians get elected due to their money, power, status and corruption, NOT their wisdom!
100 years ago Women and African Americans couldn’t vote. Most speed limits in cities were 10 mph. We were not even close to going to the moon. The computer and television were not invented. No microwaves and no sliced bread.
If we kept everything the way it has always been we would get nowhere in life. As a human species we have the great ability to think and adapt to create a better quality of life. Let us create a better life for all people, and begin by changing our National Anthem.
3. To bring the people of the World Together
Why? People are still starving to death every day. Poverty is killing children and the homeless continue to rise in numbers.
A multitude of people don’t have access to clean water and the environment is constantly being polluted. Wars have taken away fathers and sons from families and racism has divided our world, nation, states and communities.
Has any politician changed this like some of them say they will?? Some have made more of a difference than others, but for the most part one President isn’t going to solve these problems.
We can work together to create a better future, not just in America, but in the entire world. Conflicts will always exist, but we can learn to work through these conflicts in a positive way.
It begins with you, the individual, and it will spread as you carry on with your mind focused on how you can help another person, a community, a state and the world to become the best they can be.
I’m going to change JFK’s quote to: “Ask not what your World can do for you, ask what you can do for your World.”
I respect Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the National Anthem and raising awareness for the oppression of minorities; yes there is racism in Francis Scott Key’s War Poem (the longer version of the American National Anthem) where he says “No refuge could save the hireling and slave – From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”
He says this because of the African Americans who fled to Britain with the promise of true freedom and many of those people ended up fighting for the British Navy during the War of 1812.
Kaepernick has caused a ripple effect that has influenced many athletes and others to join him in kneeling for what they believe in. America is supposed to be the land of the free, where people of any color can come to live their best life…
I hope these conflicts can only lead us to becoming a better country and a better World that some of us can truly see in our mind’s eye.
I do appreciate the pride America’s National Anthem has, but it has caused some division instead of bringing us together as a whole. We can appreciate our country and still want to change the anthem. You don’t need to be for America and against the World. You CAN be for America and for the World.
“If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?”
-John Lewis
P.S. Let’s change the Pledge of Allegiance too.
I encourage you to open your mind; to think outside of yourself for a bit. Put yourself in the shoes of a minority or anyone else, and try to really see things from their point of view.
Let go of your fears.
With Ken Thompson 