Live Metanoia

You know, no one tells you when you are a child that when you become an adult you would start to pay attention to politics or care about your current governmental issues. No one tells you when you grow up there would be such an influx of biased and fake information that you would question if real, true, journalism is dead. That you would worry about your country and overall your planet. That you would honestly not understand how people could be so focused on their wealth or greed that we couldn’t focus on something helpful such as caring for our homeless, or helping our veterans, or restructuring (or actually rebuilding) our mental health crisis.

Or maybe that’s just me.

Maybe due to the invention of social media and the immense reach and power it has, it has changed what news and reporting once was. Where facts were stated in a clear and concise manner, and investigative journalism was sought after and needed. Where the truth mattered and people weren’t searching for the next ‘viral’ sensation or click bait to reach higher view numbers. Where we weren’t inundated with misinformation and biased media, and social platforms did not tack you or your location and silence or blacklist you or your opinion.

I feel that as we get older, we become more aware and concerned about the powers that be. The ones that attempt to control us and make decisions for us. We realize that people do not always have our best interest at heart, and what happens now affects our children and their children. We realize that the human race is inherently greedy. Inherently bad.

Some of you might disagree, but really think about it.

Look back through world history. Heck, look through our own country’s history. The slaughter of other people through wars and territory take overs, fighting for land that was never ours in the first place but we settled on anyway in a very violent manner. The enslavement of other human beings that we are still dealing with the fall out of years later and is still happening in other parts of the world to this day.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I love the country I live in, however I am not blind to its history, even though it’s painted differently in the books we learn from. Because of course, history is written by the victor.

The human race in majority is inherently cruel whether you want to admit it or not.

In my religious aspect or view of this realization, I think that is where God, a higher being, or higher purpose becomes so important. Jesus’ preaching’s about loving your neighbor and giving to others and turning the other cheek is a foreign concept to humans who only know greed, anger, and war. It’s a struggle we fight to achieve. Spreading joy, positive vibes, or whatever you wish to call it is something people don’t naturally do. It’s something human beings study and strive to be better at.

When you open your eyes to the reality around you and of the motivations of others in the sense of a whole, you realize how truly different you are. Fighting against a worldly nature where the majority want you to be a certain way and to conform to their beliefs is the battle that all Christians face. Christians (or the religious, spiritual, whatever) are dealt with constant persecution and in some countries, death.

It wasn’t my intention to bring ‘tha lordt’ into this post, but hey it happens. I initially wanted to talk about how our media shapes the minds and ideals of our country. How it is carefully created and cultivated to influence you. Through music, TV, movies, and celebrities. Your morals and ethics of what is considered to be bad or wrong slowly changes to ‘it’s not that bad’ or ‘everyone else is doing it so it’s okay’ due to the influx of misinformation you see from the world.

We now have to question everything and the motives behind it. What is fact, what is fiction, and where are the sources coming from. Critical thinking skills have to be applied in whatever we read or see. We live in a world now where everyone has an opinion, weather it’s correct or not, and they feel that they have a right to scream it and indoctrinate others with it, weather you want to hear it or not.

In a world that is so loud, so chaotic, where do you stand? Will you be the quiet and the calm for not only yourself but for others? The lighthouse in the storm? Will you be the voice of reason when there is nothing but incoherent screaming coming from the world?  

There will be a time, whether in my life time or the next, whether it is happening right now or not, where pillars of truth will have to stand firm in their beliefs and not be swayed.  Where when the world pushes at them to change, to give into the inherently greedy, mad, or unjust and they will have to remain where they are and tell the world unmovingly, unflinchingly, NO.

-My journey continues

Kaycee