A Vote for Life
I’m not sure if you were aware but there is about to be a
referendum in our country? No, I’m not joking, there are some people who are
not aware. Something inside me wants to say good on them. If you can remain
that oblivious to the political world that takes some doing. I have been trying
to keep my head out of the papers and news channels for so long now but it’s
impossible to ignore if you are concerned about the world, the country you live
in and the people you share it with. And, of course, voting is so important.
I am concerned with all these things but I try to keep my
view point as wide as possible. I am very much part of the ‘in’ campaign
because everything that I am working and living for is about love and
connection. It is true that the EU is far from perfect but I believe it is
easier to make positive changes from within. I know that many feel that because
things are not good in the UK, it would be better to leave. But, when you
consider all the information we are being fed, whether it is true or not, I
don’t believe leaving is the answer. Our issues are of a more internal nature.
I began to feel that everything was getting very
confused. It seemed that every day brought a new viewpoint and the possibility
of a change of direction. I felt like I was looking with a magnifying glass to
begin with and with each step I took away from the starting point a different
image would come into view. I did hear someone give some compelling evidence
about some political issue about TTIP and how leaving would help in that case. However, I soon came to the realisation
that the minutia, irrespective of how important their place in this huge issue
is, cannot take precedence over the whole big picture we are about to paint.
I feel when it comes down to it there are only two ways
of looking at it; those that have love in their hearts and want to make a world
that can carry everyone and those that live in a state of fear. These are the
people that put out hate campaigns and it is very easy, in these times, to be
drawn in. It is important to keep our heads and remember what kind of world we
want to create around us. For a hundred years our fore fathers have been
fighting against an England that was built for the aristocracy. The Britain
that was great trampled all over the world and oppressed its people with our,
apparently, better ways of living. As our kingdom shrank, our karma was to
receive all these peoples, whose lives we altered in many ways back to their ‘homeland’.
In return we have offered a place of refuge with increasing better standards of
living. We have improved our racist attitudes our homophobia and most important
created an amazing welfare state for all.
This has all been aided by joining our European
neighbours in an attempt to increase the awareness of a greater community that
we all can share. We had a huge part in making this happen and it seems madness
to think that in such a short time we could be unravelling all the good that we
have been building. This unravelling goes back to Thatcher and is still on
course but I feel that this referendum is highlighting the whole story in one
crazy microcosmic moment.
Getting caught up in the details, I believe, just increases
the stress levels. I do think we can accept this whole experience as a gift. I
was told when I had an awakening that we would be asked to choose between the
light and the shadow. It was also explained that the world would only reach
this point when the shadow and the light were equally matched, for it’s only
when the scales are perfectly balanced that we can evolve to a better way of
living. We seemed to be at that point, as though we are being offered a practice run, where the polls were neck and neck, that we
experienced, nationally, a great tragedy. The death of Jo Cox and the loss of
the amazing work she did and had yet to do, was a defining moment and I hope in
time when the grieving has been worked through that it will be seen that she
didn’t die in vain. The bigger story offers the view that at that state of
balance we had to step back from the campaigning and now it is up to us to vote
from the heart as that is the only place we can really know how to feel.
Without the lies and statistics it is here that we can rely on a deeper
understanding of the whole. It is time to stop thinking about a world as made
up of individuals but as a community that has enough to embrace all its
inhabitants and then we can start creating a governing state that reflects that.
This is our chance to vote for life.
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