Nine eleven will always have a somber association for me. This kid was not even born then, and created another tragedy right around this date.
Grief was the card I drew yesterday. The universe tunes into much more than my state. What do we learn from loss? There’s a resignation there. It is what it is. It cannot be changed. Coming to terms with that fact is difficult for us creative beings. We always dream up parallel realities.
What if? We create tragedies that others will have trouble accepting.
What strikes me is that—even called a fact, an event is still a story. Or a combination of stories.
What happened to this kid before he decided to pick up a gun?
What stories did he tell himself?
What stories did he read into how he was treated? My guess would be unworthiness.
I’d call this suicide with a bang.
And sure, guns are an issue. But what about schools? What about this environment that drives so many teenagers to murder and suicide? What was done, or not done, that led this kid and so many others to extreme violence?
I hate to upset some people, but I’ll have to agree that guns are not really the problem here. People are. And not people in their pure essence, but the way that society forces us to conform to its system that is unnatural, disconnected from who we are deep inside of us. Pure beings of light. So no, I’ll take that back, people are not the problem, but the ways we organize ourselves to be able to “function” as a society. Except the societal norms are becoming more and more unhealthy.
How is it that we fight for or against guns, and can’t even talk about the anger underneath the acts? What drove these kids to such madness? Hatred. Anger. Separation. Not feeling like they are worth living in this inhuman society that’s going off the rails emotionally.
So let me ask you:
How did we get here, and how do we get the train back on track?
How do we reconnect to the parts of ourselves that want connection instead of separation?
The system is broken, and we’re not going to fix it by fighting more. But we can slowly change it, by engaging with it from the most grounded place we have in ourselves.
By choosing connection and love, starting with our closest circles, we need to reclaim our power and the most direct way to do that is by having an impact on our direct environment. This system is not calling us to revolt. It is calling us to surrender into the power that has always been ours. The power that we inherited at birth just by way of existing. We are therefore we impact.