One Apple a Day #638 - love more
This morning I wanted to write about sacrality.
But then, I lowered the shield I use to protect my morning space, and the pain of the world flew in. All over the world, human beings are oppressed, killed, abused by other human beings. It is daunting.
And from my safe and comfortable place, the same questions keep coming back: "Why? What can I do?".
To the first question, I don't have the answer. And maybe there are no answers. But I keep going back to something I read in Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frank.
"We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfil the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."
Maybe these words can help me find the answers to both questions.
If there is something I can learn from all this suffering, is that love is the only way forward.
I know, it may sound cheesy, but that's my personal learning.
I need, and I want to love more.
And because our answer must consist in "right action and in right conduct", to me it means to be kind to everyone.
To smile to the cashier at the supermarket who's having a tough day, to greet the neighbours who never say hello, to wait patiently for the old man to cross the road. There is so much I can do every day.
I'm aware that it won't ease the pain or relieve the suffering of all these human beings around the world.
But that's not a reason to not start being a better human, here, today