Our love was
so strong that
we were just
a stone’s throw
from reconciliation,
but the stones
already slung had
so badly broken
the glass house
of our trust that
fragments seeded
a stone wall over
which no stone
could ever be
thrown again.
We were so close,
and yet so far.
Stone’s Throw © Susan L Hart 2024
Recently a friend posted her dismay that she had been attacked for being too nice. That’s right, too nice! I suppose the world has arrived at a place where we must always choose a side, no matter the issue. If you’re too nice, clearly you’re not on the side of the haters.
Beginning in 2020, suddenly we were deluged with extreme fear over disease. But the worst disease of all may extinguish humanity in its entirety, if we don’t put a stop to it.
The disease is called “my ego need to be right”. As long as we force each other to choose sides and then attack each other for those choices, there will never be any meeting ground for healing and building. We will constantly be stuck in a state of tearing down, doomed in a fatal downward spiral to a black void.
Imagine a time in future when aliens visit Earth, a beautiful place lush with flora and fauna, but strangely void of other life forms. And in their exploration of this lovely planet, they come upon a huge headstone that reads, “Here lies Humanity. Sadly, they killed each other with their need to be right”.
Personally this is not a future vision that I want to see manifest. As the poet Rumi said,
“Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.”
Yes, we could make the choice to create a meeting place. Imagine everyone with a unified commitment to constantly see, evaluate, and discuss many points of view, without judgement or a need to “have it all my way” or attack.
It would be a beginning… We’re just a stone’s throw away from getting it right. But first we must stop throwing stones at each other.
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Excellent writing this morning!! You are so right (ahem) that everyone wants to be right. And not where is that evidenced as the times we are in now. It will be a long time before everyone comes to their senses and be willing to actually listen to the other side. I think that will be a long time coming…… love the way you put your words together. Rita
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Thank you for your kind words about my words, Rita. Perhaps some extraordinary event will jar people enough to make a quicker change. (?) I truly hope it will not be “a long time coming”.
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It’s so true. Pettiness and criticism are sharp-edged stones.
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Thanks, VJ. I wonder if we will be able to bridge the great divide. Do you have thoughts on that?
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It’s hard to say, but I should think we will grow weary of it all and desire a more grown up, civilized approach to governance.
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Yes, I also think this will run its course. I pray that it is before too much more damage is done.
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