It would be nice to think that awareness advocacy is not a pestilence. When the sense of alert inside is alarmingly urgent, it is very difficult to not sound off a siren call of warning. The repetition of the alert, however, while pretty consistent, isn’t welcome. So, the matter at hand, for raising awareness, becomes one of expression, and it’s form. The point is not to beat someone else over the head with observations that they don’t want to hear. The mitigating feature inside the messenger that creates repetition, however,is the thought that the info is so key, that at some level, everyone should want to be aware. Not the case. Shut down, dispute, unfriendliness, and schism is common. Recently I heard someone say that if the truth were told in a way that it could be understood, it would be believed. So…. Now the responsibility as an awareness advocate is to find a way to be responsibly discerning, and meaningfully informative.
Compassion and love of others that I perceive to be asleep, and seem to be fighting to stay that way, is challenging. Checking up the internal pride about being right is challenging too. Righteous ranting excesses are selfish, damaging, and counter productive. It’s so important to not forget that the Devil could care less about how right a point of view is as long as there is an argument about it. As far as the spirit prince of disunion, discord, and hatred is concerned, the more stubborn, personal, bitter, and hostile an argument is, the better.Righteousness works communicatively with confident humility. The basic internal attitude that remembers that we’re all equal, regardless of what our point of view may be at any given time. We all have our reasons for our current view point, and it’s valid. If the real objective is to work towards improving the quality of our shared reality; arguments and fights can’t happen. The best way through a defense is to never raise it, so an inspired sense of good timing is invaluable. Selfishness is also thereupon for wanting to get the satisfaction of seeing desired changes in others happen. Patience. Patience. Patience. The patience of knowing that a valuable message has been delivered regardless of how it seems to have been received is fundamental. Trusting that a valuable message has been delivered has to be premium. There’s satisfaction in not getting riled up! Man, I’ll tell you what?! This often gets emotionally tricky!!It’s especially tricky when others are smart, pointed, and motivated to aggressively, or passively dismiss, marginalize, and/or disprove what has just been offered. Letting the issue lie without argument is sublime It can be. People carry messages; Providence does the changing, and does it in It’s time.
What of the means? Laughter is good medicine, so satire might very well be a very good tool. Success is avoiding being mean spirited and angry, enjoy spreading insights, poking fun at our shortcomings, and keeping the expectations low. Who knows how far liberation can reach with some good natured humor? No question that the modern world has enough power driven operations. It appears that much of the modern world’s shared reality conditions are running rapidly and dangerously into the red. In a big way, this is no laughing matter, however, the dire expressions, sarcasm, criticism, condemnation, intolerance, hostility, and un-love are very apparent, so an anti-pole of actual levity may provide an important pause. A pin point moment of freeze frame clarity which affords each the most useful view of the world available at some important moment. The road to hell may be paved with good intentions (and some not so good ones as well), so when all is said and done it’ll be nice to be remembered for having had the best lemonade stand on that road along the way.