I’m back. I should have looked to see how many people unfriended me, but that would mean I cared. What I care about are those that stuck with me, read my blog and agree that Hate has no place in our lives.
Being on a short break – and it was short, just 5 days and I did peek a couple of times – I realized just how much I look forward to seeing what my friends are up to. I didn’t miss the meme’s, the religious or the politics posts; I missed hearing that you were sick, you got better, you had a great day, you had a terrible day, you were doing something exciting for you, you were experiencing life in a unique way, you were experiencing death. That is what I missed – YOU!
Politics and Religion will divide us.
Being humane unites us.
-Larry Jensen
It’s OK to align yourself with a Political or Religious party. I’m a Hippietarian (I literally just made that word up, but a quick search on Google proved that someone beat me to it Click Here – I guess that’s proof that no idea is ever truly unique ) but when your politics or religion becomes who you are rather than something you align yourself with, you lose your uniqueness, your identity and your individuality.
So I challenge you all. Take a look back in your personal timeline; are your posts about you a party or a group? If the majority of your posts are about the latter then ask yourself – who are YOU? Better yet, what do your friends really know about you?
I had some great comment on my entry: When Hate filled my World, but it was the comments on Facebook – not the blog – that were hateful. There was one negative one on the blog, but I didn’t find it bad. I think it was more about my inability to properly get my message across than hate.
My cousin Eric was one of the people to comment on the blog entry. While I specifically used some trigger words to elicit reader reaction (hey I am a writer – it’s my job), Eric, a very Conservative Christian with a deeply rooted faith based life, perhaps a complete polar opposite of me, somehow didn’t fall for it and instead saw the underlying message of Love for Humanity and while I gave him every reason to attack me on specifics, he instead chose solidarity.
How beautiful a world we would live in if others, with such opposing views of Religion and Politics would drill down to the core belief of Love one Another and stand together hand in hand rather than opposite – weapons drawn and aimed.
So I’m back on Facebook. A few less friends perhaps and I’d gather a few more will go by the wayside, but some of you with very opposing views came together, some of you whom could have taken offence to my blog and some of you who did, then reached out to me privately and shared how you felt about me personally. Not my politics or anti religious position, but me. When someone can disagree with you in almost every major regard and then reaches out and give you a hug – virtual or real – and tell you that they truly enjoy you, well that kind of Love just permeates all differences.
I’m going to talk more about that subject on my Thanksgiving post so be sure to tune in between the Parade and the Football games.
Peace All
