We're All In This Together
As I melt into the ethers listening to the indescribable talents of Tash Sultana, I wanted to share a revelation I had today, one that I’ve always KNOWN but really FELT today. I was lying in bed having a kinda difficult morning and luckily I had no morning schedule so I allowed myself to read a bit of the current book at the top of my night table stack, (no, tower, actually) “Eat, Pray, Love” by the amazing Elizabeth Gilbert. It’s about the millionth time I’ve read it and I find it affects me in different ways every time. Every so often it calls to me from my bookshelf and I happily oblige. It was one of my favourite parts, her at the secret rooftop point of the Ashram, instructions for “letting go” in hand from her friend, the plumber/poet, all alone at that beautiful moment in space and time, the only one in charge of forgiving the past to finally be able to move on with her life.
It hit me so hard because, though I do not know her personally, or even have the same story as her, I could feel what she was going through so deeply and could apply it to something lately that I’ve been working on letting go of. And so, the revelation came, sinking deep into my skin and bones and beyond and I knew it with every molecule (and beyond) that I am. It’s simple as this - we’re all in this together. This image of us all as these tiny little nerve endings in the great grand being of the world, no, bigger than that - the universe, has been so comforting to me as of late. It’s as if we’re each a cell that makes up this great grand being of our bodies (and beyond), and when I draw that comparison it makes me fall to my knees in gratitude and surrender, realizing that I both know everything and nothing.
It’s so easy to think that no one understands or no one gets what I’m going through, but I realize now that this is just an illusion. Who better to understand than a fellow human? In the past I’ve played victim many times, thinking my past and what I’ve had to deal with is either better or worse than others. Lately I’ve been asking myself is this helpful? Is this how I want to feel? And the answer shines through with a big resounding definite NO. And really, I’m the only one who has to live with the way that what I think affects my day to day.
Even if there are different ways that we have been wounded and scarred, we all wear the same wounds and scars. It’s part of being human, and I’m learning, is part of being alive. It’s how we are connected, and another comforting thought to me lately is we are made to heal.
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xx
Kat