The following is an excerpt from a recent blog entry on my page at http://www.zaadz.com. It comes at a time where the cobwebs of craziness have blown out of my mind like a bad muffler backfiring in an alley. I hope you enjoy these thoughts:Denial is a wonderful apparatus to dull our senses to the humanity of our heroes. It also works as an elixir for the pain we create by trusting our thought process and consciousness to people & philosophies that are in the same exact boat as us. And, conspiracy and error exist.
For an example of this axiom, one must look no further than Anychurch USA when a member of clergy or staff falls from some sort of “sin” and no matter how “damning” the evidence, there are still people who won’t believe it’s true. We set ourselves up for the fall by putting someone in a place with expectations that are so far from who we were created to be that it is impossible to live up to them. Yet, when that person doesn’t live up, we don’t believe it, still wanting them to live to that expectation, and denial kicks in.
I don’t mean to pick on the church, but it’s an easy target. So are friendships, families, career circles, and the largest target ever: Ourselves. (Therefore, don't think that I believe I am above this. I am the biggest culprit-just ask me about how I am responding to the latest headlines regarding my "Person of the Year" for 2005, Ricky Williams).
Churches divide, families split, friends grow distant, countries war; all because of denial.
But, where does denial breed? And what is a preventative measure from even having to use this coping mechanism? My simple theory is that denial breeds from early domestication into a mind-set of beliefs that set humans on a path of ideology and closedmindedness. My simple answer is that we should accept people unconditionally as they are with no expectations and realize we are in the same boat.
But that’s kind of difficult with centuries of storylines, dogma and tradition in every corner of our life that strangle commonsense like it’s a criminal dangling from a hangman’s noose.
It is easier to believe what we have always “just believed because it’s true” than to open our hearts and souls to the possibility that although we are all uniquely different and beautiful, we are all connected and in the same boat.
Concretizing belief is the first step to intolerance and a great, purposeful step toward setting a person up for disappointment. And upon disappointment, the medicine of denial will kick in.
Anyone on earth can be wrong at any time simply because the ground is not solid. As much concrete as one thinks exists, as good as it may get is “wet cement.”
We cause ourselves great pain and discomfort by wanting things to be like we think and believe they should be. The issue with this is that things aren’t like we think and believe they should be. The universe is full of beauty and everyone of us lives a different story while interpreting the world through our own eyes and minds. Unity, compassion, love and peace breed from the breaking chains of belief and ideology.
Beauty is intrinsic to all of us and everything, but it is not justified or defined by doctrine, ideology, belief or a business model with a cross at it’s heart.
BY THE WAY, THE PHOTO ABOVE IS THE MUG SHOT OF THE SOON TO BE RELEASED RAP LEGEND, LIL' KIM. GODSPEED KIM.
