How to Save the World I
How to Save the World I Chasing Spring Arizona in the winter feels like Florida in the spring. And with spring, comes birth. Birth and re-birth, and re-growth, and renewal. This spring we are all baby birds. The winter was long, and full of summer, imbalanced and seasonless and strung together because I stopped going to Drexel in the spring and moved to Arizona in the summer. I don’t believe in psychology. I’m a psychology major. We all have seasonal affective disorder and it isn’t a disorder. It’s a connection to nature and to the earth and to the changes that we feel around us, and when the winter is cold and harsh, why shouldn’t we feel it too? We as humans disconnect ourselves everyday. We isolate ourselves in hopes that in this isolation we will find safety and control, but it’s false advertisement. There is no safety or control. If others aren’t making you unsafe, you do it to yourself. There is no such thing as control, control is an illusion. You are never truly in control of yourself, the Universe and God are in control, and the more we try to control it and try to disconnect from the things that seem to happen TO us, the more dissociated we are from the interconnectedness and love that exists when we surrender and allow the world to touch us. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Heaven and hell are not supernatural states or places above and below the earth. They exist here within us. Hell is disconnection, isolation, and indifference. Heaven is love and harmony and surrender. The only way to exist is in connection with others and with the world around us. WIthout that, we are hopelessly lost until someone comes along and saves us, but they don’t save us with walls and protection and shields, they save us with love. By loving us, they allow us to be our true selves, which we shouldn’t need permission to be in the first place, but for some reason we do. Love yourself, and others, and allow yourself to be connected.
