"Do the best you can until you know better, then when you know better, do better" said Maya Angelou with her fantastic life wisdom.
Do better, not to perform or to be better than someone else but to be closer to life’s flow.
Do better in terms of treat yourself better, treat life better, as much as you can. Be more and more vulnerable, because it is when you’re strong and empowered : when you need others. Only when you call you can be heard. And even if it’s only one person texting you "I’ve got your back" and actually doing it, this one will allow you to take the next mile.
Acknowledge trauma. It’s there. For all of us in a way or another. It’s hard. It’s horrible. It can come from so many different directions. It hurts. Oh Lord, it hurts. But acknowledge it through vulnerability so you can finally see what needs to be healed, forgiven and loved again.
Many many blessings to all the helpers in our lives. Long term friends or total strangers, animals, trees, rising suns, kids smiles, doctors, therapists or social workers. May all the help we all receive connect us more and more to life.
So much trauma energy and traumatic reality are ongoing everywhere. Let’s focus more and better on healing and transforming our environments. Let’s try again even if we tried already. Work, health, family, love, friendship, house, city, countryside, seashore or mountain, transportation, food, gifts, we are an active part of so many environments that urgently need our positive attention, our connective strength, our empowered responses.
These words are not coming from a random disconnected wisdom printed on a tee-shirt. They come from me.
Scars can become inner landscapes. At least I hope so. Let’s see what tomorrow will bring.
photo credit : Fire Dreaming, by Malcolm Maloney Jagamarra, from www.aboriginalartcoop.com.au
