i havent made new years' resolutions since ... maybe 6th grade ?
[you know, when they make you write them down on a pretty piece of paper and you only stick to it for about a week because you forgot what you wrote ?]
ever since i was twelve , i never wrote them 'cause they felt more like a chore than anything . BUT, lastnight i actually dreamed about my new years' resolution .
in one of my dreams, i was Africa and [randomly enough] there was this infestation of deadly spiders that were brought into Yoruba . These spiders would sink into the sand and just when you stepped on one, thousands of them would rise from under the ground . . . just w a i t i n g for something to attack . Little landmines .
The Yoruba people were terrified to leave their towns and villages , and SO was i. The key here is ... 'SO was I' . In my dream, i was literally terrified & that's when i realized that i need to have more compassion for other people . I felt a lot of guilt when i came to that conclusion , but then i realized something else . In order to feel compassion for another being , you have to go through the uncomfortable progress of putting YOURSELF in someone else's circumstances . When we pass by a homeless person, we make jokes so we dont have to feel compassion for someone else . When we see an overweight person , we like to tease them because we feel guilty about our disgust towards another human being . A handicapped person, a poor person, someone who is 'ugly' . . . we put up these guards so that we dont have to deal with compassion . . . a sense of humanity .
Starting now, i will consider other people's positions more closely and consider other people's perspectives before i rush to have an opinion about it . R E S O L V E the person inside, and the rest will come :)
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