One night in a refugee camp would be traumatic. How about 15 years?
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Grateful: to recognize when my energy is out of alignment and find the ego variable at play
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Morning Meditation from The GratiDude
Sometimes the things we don’t even think about or must think about are the things that we should really stop and think about and be grateful for.
Particularly I’m thinking about the impacts of things like a general political election like we have coming up here in the United States.
There are doomsday prognosticators on both sides of the political spectrum that are hypothesizing that one-handed would be the end of democracy, and we would move into a fascist state if one candidate is elected and on the other hand, there will be a communist, takeover and socialism and Cuba will become the model here in the United States if the other side wins. It’s so hilarious. It says if the global economy and all the economics behind the whole thing, don’t care about it and are influencing it and making sure that the global economy in the US is participation and position remain intact.
Even the brightest and most rational people get sucked into it however, at the end of the day once the elections are over and the dust settles the general practice of inactivity and Washington and gridlock politically returns into focus, there’s certainly a shift in tax benefits and structures for certain people, however, the poor usually remain poor and rich, usually get richer as cynical as that may sound.
In less developed countries, however, the results can be far more grave, such as what the man in this video describes happened in Somalia when all the wars started many years ago.
He has no idea what happened to his father and his entire family was displaced and forced to move into a refugee camp.
They stayed in that refugee camp, not for a few months or even one year but for 15 years.
15 years in a refugee camp.
As of July 2024, there are four million people internally displaced in Somalia due to conflict, drought, floods, and insecurity. These people are living in makeshift camps that are unsanitary and pose increased health and protection risks.
Four million of God’s Children, our brothers, and Sisters.
What kind of schools, recreation, health/wellness, and opportunities to keep yourself mentally active are you going to find in a refugee camp?
How would you be able to remain kind, compassionate, loving and concerned about others after spending over a decade as a prisoner of war and poverty in your own country?
I love seeing examples of people that have lived extremely difficult, challenging lives, and showing just a natural reflex, like action towards kindness and generosity, even when they have themselves very little.
For me demonstrates the amount of programming we receive here in the United States to encourage selfish behavior with the emphasis on individualism the push to move away from home and family as a sign of maturity, even down to the resistance of participating in mass transit outside of condensed urban areas all these things are examples of separation And focus on ego and self.
It is very important that we remember when we see people in our society and meet people, especially folks their immigrants that have come here many of traumas and violence and horrific realities that we can’t even imagine because of how safe and structured our society is here in the United States.
When legal political refugees and hard working individuals arrive here (remember digital and liquid Capital assets can go ANYWHERE ANYTIME WITHOUT A PASSPORT but Human Capital is restricted. Ask Why), the difficulties that it takes to get here the work ethic and commitment to family that they demonstrate in an overwhelming majority of cases is such an accretive element to our country that it needs to be celebrated and have a light shined on it.
This is why I am writing this today.
We are a nation of immigrants and everyone reading this with the exception of some of my Native Indigenous roots bros and sisters like Jay out in the Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico, the rest of you are all just Immigrant kids.
Get over yourself.
One hundred years ago, your grandparents were called a “dirty whop,” or your great grandparents were called a bunch of “drunk Micks” off the boat from Dublin.
This is the most fantastic thing about our country is the mix of people in cultures and also the fact that the most conservative uptight white Christian dude still gets it that the Somalian dude that’s working his butt off with two jobs has the right to have his own church that’s completely different and it’s practice and beliefs and his.
That’s just part of the deal since the Calvinist Christians showed up here and set up their “city on a hill” five hundred years ago.
It’s very important that we do not tolerate the discourse of fear and hate towards immigrants as it is truly an active programming that is both energetically negative, from a religious perspective it is sacrilegious, and by all measures, nonproductive for our society as a whole.
Rising tide raises all boats, and our approach needs to be that when we view our neighbors in our community, ask how we can all work together to solve local small problems and elevate each other in the process.
I’m hitting the road and visiting some friends on the way up to Charleston to see one of my very favorite people in the golf industry and a friend for life Jay Karen. Going to visit Andy and Di also, Andy was one of my teammates from the 1978 city champions Eberwhite express. I try to visit the horse farm that Sparty built as often as possible.
My Heart is so full when I leave my friends the Musils Ranch near St. Augustine. we have been through so much together ups and downs death in our family, tragedies, celebrations, victories, graduations, and all three of us quit and saved ourselves from ourselves. We can’t fu(%ing believe it when we sit out together.
Words can’t express the gratitude I have for the friends in my life but suffice it to say they’re the most important thing along with my family and faith. And with that I celebrate a Sunday attitude of gratitude.
EVERY DAY:
Love
and
Gratitude
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Every day, every way, grateful.
KC
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