Every situation, every circumstance that we find ourselves in, as individuals and as a collective, we wrought upon ourselves. In life we get what we deserve. But I hear you ask, 'does a loving mother and devoted wife deserve to be battered by her husband at every chance he gets?' or, 'does an innocent child deserve to be brutally abused?' I will say quite emphatically, NO, of course not. However, we cannot look at things as being separated from the whole. This is where we make the mistake due to taking on european ideologies of separation. When I was 16 I was raped and have a son as a result of that. However, do I blame the rapist for violating my person, or do I look at the society as a whole?
As I wrote in a thread some time ago speaking about 'Accountability and Responsibility', if we do not act to Strengthen ourselves, our families, our communities etc., if we do not act to Protect ourselves, our children, our communities etc., from the negative energies in our world, then we allow such energies to thrive, and we and our children and our communities will reap the very consequences and effects of our inaction/s. When we can learn to accept that we are the cause of all that is happening in our lives and in our world then we will realise that we are also the solution and the more we become empowered. If our lives are not how we want it to be then we must have sowed the seeds somewhere along the path of life and/or pre-life to be reaping what we’re experiencing today, now.
Our Ancestor Dr. Amos Wilson says in his talk, …to be without theory is to approach the world on an ad-hoc basis, to meet it here and there and to not approach it in a systematic form, to live reactionarily, always reacting to what other people are doing, always being overwhelmed by events and overwhelmed by the future instead of creating events and creating the future…
Love, Peace!