It’s Time To Heal Our World
A short story about how we can heal ourselves so that our world will begin to heal
If you never heal from what hurt you, then you’ll bleed on people who did not cut you.~ Unknown
How can you help heal a person who does not know they are hurt? How do you begin to heal a nation or world full of people bleeding all over one another? You have to first recognize you can’t heal anyone. Each person must take a look at the man in the mirror and ask a few different questions.
One of the most difficult questions that a person can ask themselves is why am I behaving in this way? Or with more direct dialogue what is my problem? Sometimes poor behavior is normalized and people don’t see that have no boundaries set up in their life.
Those are some of the most challenging questions that one needs to address with themselves. I don’t know of anyone who enjoys confronting their poor behavior. What I have learned about life is that if I don’t confront myself life will. In other words, my poor behavior will show up because it was not addressed sooner.
For example, have you ever seen adults fighting at a sports event? Most adults would gather themselves and say” I will not let this upset me and ignore what made them angry but others will engage in a full-on brawl about a game or their favorite team.
I’m saying to those who will have ears to hear it’s something bigger than a sports team that will make you fight as an adult because someone disagrees with your opinion. I will park that car because I don’t argue virtually or otherwise with those who have a different opinion than I do.
What I want to stress is to work on ourselves individually and heal from the trauma or drama that has occurred in our lives so that we don’t bleed on those who did not cut us. Our nation and world are hurting because we are hurting. Take one day at a time and heal yourself.
Some find health routines, therapy, healthy eating or community support to gain momentum and heal. I say to you when one of us gets healed we will all benefit. Healing from any life event is a journey most of the time, give yourself space and grace during the process but also recognize your neighbor may also need that same mercy and grace on their healing journey.
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