A few thoughts on round 2

We are into round two of the huge events that are rocking our reality, and the recently released Pfizer paper on 158,000 adverse reactions from the vaccine are a quiet whisper muffled by the war news.

When I was in the UK, I wondered into Waitrose and saw the line-up of newspapers. Each front cover the identical face of a female victim of the war.

I scrolled through my facebook feed, and found that many people were sharing alternative narratives. I shared a few posts that resonated with me, and then received comments that I couldn’t answer. I didn’t have the information, and I knew right there and then, that I wasn’t going to go and find the information.

A memory sticks in my mind of going to a writer’s retreat, and being surrounded by journalists, and sharing that I didn’t read the news. I felt a bit ignorant and silly, like a little girl into ‘spiritual’ stuff, rather than worldly events.

And yet I knew deep down in my heart, as much as I didn’t like to admit it when I tried to fit in, that I didn’t believe the news, the narratives about mainstream events. I knew that they were all lies.

And I’d also found areas in my own little world that I wanted to help people with, teaching listening skills to parents, helping women who’d experienced gynaecological injury. Keeping up with the news wasn’t really part of it.

The news blares louder and louder. And many of us feel called to correct the lies, to share different narratives, that thing are more complex than they appear.

And many of us are exhausted by trying to correct the lies, from the last two years, and aren’t up for round two.

I read this quote the other day, and it resonated,

‘Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely.’ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

When the news of the war started trickling into my reality, my response was to dig deeper into my own corner of the world, to not know, to not inform myself. And though I’ve gathered bits and pieces here and there, I have not gone any further into looking into it.

It may sound ignorant. But, in a world so deeply entrenched in deception and distortion, the time it would take to genuinely inform myself, (as opposed to flicking through some newspapers) is time I think that I think I could put to more effective use. 

I salute all those learning, and sharing. And I salute all those who have decided to retreat from the information battleground.

I pray for peace and an end to the suffering of all victims of all wars, whether they find themselves the subject of newspaper headlines or not.