Fighting fire with fire

Bestest has taught me much about loving and living simply by being himself. He teaches by example, not fear mongering.

We learn what we live with, what we see and feel and hear. People do what they've been taught.

And much of our culture is fear based. We are afraid of being poor, of being laughed at, of not being the best. Out of a misguided sense of direction we believe that happiness comes from having a lot of money, or at least enough money. We use laughter as a weapon to hurt each other. We think being the best must be learned or manufactured.

And even when we say otherwise, our actions shout the truth to those around us.

Being who we are, finding our peace, our joy, our being inside ourselves and looking for that in others is the real truth.

That doesn't mean condoning the mean spirited, dangerous, or hate filled people who want to rule over the meek, but if more of us were really brought up to love ourselves and each other, there would be fewer of the former around.

Right now people are trying to justify the need for the ugliness in our world, but you cannot put out a fire with fire. You may contain it for a while, but to destroy fire with fire it is necessary to destroy every single thing that can burn.

We don't want to do that.