Syria Under Attack...

Some of the victims of this attack. Innocent Children.

Today I heard of there was an attack in Syria where at least 1300 innocent people and more were killed by what was believed to be a gassing. Children also among the dead.

It saddens, upsets and angers me that we live in a world like this.

I often wonder what I can do. Because we can call all do something. Being mad and angry wont help the situation only add to it, like fuel does to a fire. What I can do is love. I can add love to this world and not hate anger or fear.

I can be nice to those that aren’t to me, I can treat all those I encounter with love and kindness, irrespective of their views, thoughts, beliefs and nationality. I can smile at the child who sits alone and help the lady who is having difficulty with her children. I can choose to bite my tongue when tempted to say something that is hurtful, I can put my own judgments aside and choose to see only the good in people and know that deep down within us all is love and goodness.

I do realise that I alone may not be able to change the world but I can change me!

I Pray That This Madness Ends

Do images like this upset you like they do me?

Am I the only person who finds this picture and the many others like it incredibly upsetting?

Every time I see images like this it only inspires me to do more and be more. The world needs us all to LOVE MORE and KILL less. What utterly shocks and disgusts me is that there are facebook pages dedicated to hunting. Pages were you post your killings, show them off and brag to others about how it went down.

Yet, I cannot blame them or the men and women who do this. Because if they felt what it is I currently feel then there is no way they could do such a thing. My wish for him and the many others that kill is for one moment, to feel the pain and suffering of another like that they are causing.

I pray that this madness stops. I pray that we are as the human race no longer use anothers pain, killing and torture as a form of entertainment.

This moment of 'happiness', exhilaration and excitement in killing this beautiful creature would have lasted that man a day at most, yet cost the deer his life. No doubt as the mans excitement, exhilaration and 'happiness' wears off he will be out to gain it again by killing. You will never and I repeat never, will you find happiness and joy in taking the life of another.

Ears and Hearts.

Last night I watched this video posted on facebook.

It touched me quite deeply and I spent my evening thinking about it, mostly through tears.

I  wasn't sure what it was that upset me so much about this video. The boy, Christian, was so obviously loved happy and healthy so it wasn't that. I tried to figure out what it was that was upsetting me and I realised, I felt sorry for him.

I felt sorry that he has to live his life this way and throughout his life be at the receiving end of cruel remarks and jokes. Then I remembered he is blind and will never see his own face and will never see the face of another to compare his to.

This made me realise something profound. As he will never see his own face or be able to compare his to another it is unlikely that he will ever judge another person because he is blind.

So many of our judgements and criticisms are over the way people look, act and do things. To a blind person we are all beautiful. How much kinder of a world would it be if we were all blind and loved each other with our ears and hearts.

I do not in any way take my eyesight for granted or wish I were blind, but it is our eyes that judge not our hearts. That is what I learnt last night. So as sad as I was for young Christian I realised that in his eyes he is as beautiful as you and I.

Gay Marriage

I heard on the radio the other day that France recently celebrated its first gay marriage - yay! What great news this is as France now joins 12 other countries that recognize gays as equals and as people who have hearts that love and desire to connect.

What I don’t quite understand is how anyone can hate the gay or find being gay disturbing? I guess because those that do aren’t gay and to them it’s unnatural. But have they considered that perhaps to a gay person being with the opposite sex is unnatural?

Do you think if a gay person had a choice they would choose to be gay, in this world! Why would they…?

I admit things are slowly getting better and in the past 10 years or so we as a society are accepting it more but I think it’s time we all embrace the gay! But not only the gay, everyone!  It’s time we accept everyone for who they are who they were born to be. I couldn’t imagine living a life where I was hated, treated differently and restricted just because I was born gay. 

I was born to only grow 153cm! Imagine if society had the belief that adults below 160cm were not worthy. Absurd. Yet how is this different than society restricting a man from marrying a man or a woman from marrying  a woman. We are not our bodies. We are beyond that. So much more than that. 

Love falls in love with another heart, another soul. Not the casing it’s in.

Love Will Save Us

 A friend of mine today informed me about an incident that has occurred in London. I haven't watched the video or know anything about it but from what I gather someone was murdered. Brutally.

My friend said he hates living in fear, that this world is crazy and if it continues this way than he no longer wants to be here.

I don't blame him for feeling this way at all and I told him was that YES some seriously bad shit happens in this world but there is just as much love out there also - we just don't hear about it.

The news NEVER reports the love stories only ever the FEAR stories. The world needs love, not us to add to that fear by displaying it, talking about, showing it off etc.

I'm not in anyway saying to 'ignore' what is going on in the world I am just saying it doesn't need us to fuel it. Its time to reclaim our world with love, not fear. To tip the balance.

The world needs solutions, not displays. This world needs us. It needs us to step up and fight back, but not with weapons but with our hearts. To stop this craziness before it kills us all.

So I send love. I send love to all those in fear, all those hurting. I pray for them. I pray for this world but most of all I believe in this world and i believe in us as the human race. We were put on this earth to love, to give, to share, not to fear, take, and keep.

I am so very passionate about this because the world is relying on every single one of us to make that difference, to make a change and to take that step forward. Will you?