I just saw pictures of someone I had met a long time ago. I could not help but be in awe of the work she is doing. I felt a surge of hope and pride overwhelm my senses. More than likely, guilt is driving this. I started thinking about what I want to do. Psychology, I think, is very much a Western phenomena. Who else has the luxury to think about neurosis or come up with a theory of psychosis? I would say Education is a type of luxury. Luxury because, in other parts, there is no time to basque in the streams of knowledge. There is a necessity for survival. Survival supercedes Education.
There's my first dilema. The fact that I have time to think about this so called dilemma, is a luxury, and in many ways it disgusts me. There's people out there getting killed, living in poverty, going to bed hungry, sniffing toxic chemicals to numb the hunger, abandonded children in orphanages, food shipped to differeng countries but the countries themselves have no resources for their own people, people infected by diseases that were created by man as they were in truth being tested as guinea pigs...the list can get exhaustive.
That's another thing I don't understand. Why is man so cruel? Animals will do what they need to in order to survive but they will not plot and scheme in order to get ahead, and they will not torture. So here we are these mammals with overdeveloped gray matter and underdeveloped sensibilities, and in truth, consciousness. Animals seem to act with more of a sense of consciousness than humans, in those basic terms. They can't dream up ways to create atomic bombs to declare war on another country because it has the oil its population lusts for, and the money making potential for oil companies.
I don't want much. I don't want gold and diamonds. I don't want a fancy house. I want to see people treat eachother with kindness. i want to see people watch out for one another. I want to see people living in harmony with the earth. i want to see people expand their minds, hearts and souls. I want us as humans to reach for the stars in our potential without having to trample over others to get there. Is that so fucking much to ask for? I don't understand this planet. Sometimes I want to run away. People keep on telling me I belong here. I argue, part of me is very much of the earth, but the other part of me, does not understand these human ways.
So, if I go to a foreign country, what do I do? How will me going there make a difference? What about here? U.S. citizens sometimes make me very angry. Lustful for more but yet we have people starving and we don't get enough. Perhaps that is part of a spiritual poverty, that we seek for material possessions in order to fulfill the lack within the soul. I hear about people going to shrinks as they bemoan their life and I want to go over to them and slap them in the face. Slap them in the face. ** This excludes those who have suffered abuse of any form, rape, death, etc.... Yeah. I want to say "GET WITH IT"!!! All the problems you have are ones you can do something about. You are not dead. It is like a saying we have in Mexico. "Lo unico que no tiene solucion es la muerte". " The only thing that does not have solution is death". I would now agree with that thought. We cannot go back in time and redo our pasts...but we can take our past and grow from it, no matter how painful it is. I think people have it backwards. People want to get stuck in the "Look what happened to me," and in some ways it creates an attitude of victimisation. I read an article, I wish I could reference it, but it talked about how society has created a society full of victimization by the very venues and outlet it provides. In any event, my purpose here is to, make the point that, rather than staying in the past, I believe experiences build a person's character. There are some things we cannot help, much of it happens in our childhood. That said, we can take those experiences to give us a greater understanding of life and people around us, in turn making us more compassionate human beings, and in turn, better people.... instead of having to go to a shrink each week to coddle respective neurosis.
Which now brings me to a second point. Do I believe psychologists and counselors have a place? Yes. Please do not misunderstand me, as there is a second part to this thought. I am not saying that people do not go through traumatic events. People do, I know so. This is not to belittle those things AT ALL. I believe that such traumas should be dealt with. I think that is where counselors and psychologists can fulfill a vital role. I think the key element here is to aid in the healing of the soul, but giving and re-enabling the individual to regain strength in order to back in the world and cultivate their own innate gifts. I say THIS, rather than enabling an addiction to a vicious cycle of pain, emotional battering and neurosis.
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