Change Your Perspective

What a crazy world we live in – especially here in South Africa! What with so much negativity going on, we are still able to rise above it all and make light of it. I think South African’s are amazing resilient beings and there’s no coincidence why we have chosen to be a part of this madness at this time in our lives!

There is so much we can take away from the whole load shedding debacle. Especially where it has forced people to put down their phones, to come off-line and actually have conversations with each other. I saw a young family choose to go down to the lake close to their home, to watch the sun set, rather than stay at home with no power and the beauty that they were privy to, is something that they would have missed out on, if it wasn’t for the no power issue.

Other families have been playing card games and board games by candle-light with their children. People have had to be creative and come up with new ideas for dinner and new connections have been formed with neighbours getting together to enjoy a meal together.

When we think of the simplicity of connecting with each other and are forced into situations where we have no choice but to do just that, we see the madness that is the digital era! It has become the norm for people to be on their phones checking texts, chatting on whatsapp groups and responding to social media posts, rather than communicating face to face with actual people that they know. With people who are part of their soul families and who have a very important and specific reason why they have come to join them in this lifetime.

Let this time of negativity that we’re experiencing as a country, spur you on to want more for yourself and to want more for your loved ones. Connecting and communicating on a physical and emotional level is so important to our growth as spirit beings. It’s the single most important thing that you’ll ever do in this lifetime, because it is only through connecting and communicating that we’re able to form strong bonds with each other that help carry each other through life and into the beyond.

When we isolate ourselves and place weight on the opinion and thoughts of people that we don’t know, have never met, and are never likely to meet, we do ourselves an injustice. Because, we’re placing our focus in the wrong place. What does it matter if a total stranger likes something that you posted on facebook or doesn’t like it? What does it matter if a total stranger expresses their offended outrage at something that you’ve done or said or to something that you’ve placed onto your social media? But ask yourself this : what does it matter if someone you love likes something that you’ve done? What does it matter if someone you love is offended by something that you said or did? Would that make a difference to you or should it make a difference to you?

Of course it would and of course it should! At the very least, they should be given the opportunity to communicate with you and talk it through. Yet, we don’t do this. At times, we just don’t care enough, yet we care so much about the total stranger?

People, we need to change the way we treat each other. We need to change the way we see the world and we need to start to focus within. They say that charity begins at home. Love and respect begins there too. And when we don’t make love and respect an important aspect of our journey, love and respect for those who are our family and chosen friends, then we’re unable to place love and respect in the wider aspects of our emotional connections. And those connections are broken down and when they’re broken down, we get negative input all round. We get people hating on each other just because they have a different culture that we haven’t even bothered to explore. Just because they have a different colour skin and we’ve had one bad encounter with someone who has a different colour skin and we lob them all together and form a one-sided narrow-minded opinion that isn’t based on fact.

Start today, to work consciously on the connections that you have with those who matter in your life. Start working today on taking their opinions, thoughts and ideas into consideration with as much love and respect as you can muster. Make it a part of your everyday behaviour. You will see how this will filter out to others and back to you where it matters most.