08/11/2023
30 days has passed since the massacre and the war against the Hamas terror organization. 30 days of increasing trauma, pain, suffering, existential fears, grief, love, compassion and light. Feeling daily the tension between dark and light forces. Trying to digest, understand and process. Left me and many with no words, just many silent thoughts. So here are a few of them:
1. Can't believe again we are witnessing the tragedy of people loosing hope and trust in humanity's ability to have empathy in times of deep atrocities. And instead getting caught up in the blame and shame game and comparing trumas while people are suffering. Maybe better to choose holding space and compassion to all innocent people might be better.
2. The continuation of news and social media in inciting violence separation and division with not enough regulation and the thin line between hate crimes to freedom of speech that can break any moment into a civil war. Maybe we try not letting the extremist to be the dominant voice.
3. The lack of accountability and responsibilities in each side including power forces and countries of the world playing the part in this vicious ongoing cycles of wars and terror.
4. We all need more wisdom to process all the overload of information and have the intuition to differ between fake news to truth. Realizing we are all blinded by societies, media and manipulation of of our minds. Maybe truth lies somewhere in between or not at all. Let's question what we see and hear. Any ask the right difficult question.
5. If only humanity could have more compassion to all mankind, where would we be now. The other is you.
6. We all need patience , we are two quick to assume, respond and comment without any thoughts or awareness. Just acting from our trumatic autopilots. I wish each one who posts, acts, protest will ask themselfes first - AM I adding violence or love? Or Am I creating more divisions? Can I create a dialogue?
7. Healing can be done only when we heal ourselves from generations of ongoing trauma. Let's focus on Creating trauma based healing communities. It's gonna take generation to heal. NOW is the time.
8. We must understand the w