LisaR
Senior Registered
The day this thread started was my last day of vacation in Mexico, where I was on a busy rooftop bar and then down in the pedestrian street crunched among spectators of the parade followed by walking and dining in the center tourist plaza. Then hugging people goodbye. Latin America was slower to be affected, and compared with what I faced coming home to the western US, they (we) were in peaceful bliss. How quickly things changed.
Before vacation I’d quit my job and sold my house, so I came home and had to move the next day. Even that day, a few friends came over to send me off, now without hugs. Now I’m holed up in a new place and I’m okay. For me everything happened just in time - the vacation, the house sale, the change of employment (I decided to be self employed after taking a break for a while). It’s not the new beginning I’d planned, but still I have rather privileged vantage point, which I’m thankful for every day. And seeing how pollution has decreased sometimes I guess I’m hopeful that the crisis happened just in time for the planet too, to try to look at the positive.
Do you ever wonder why we reincarnate *when* we do - that it may be to work out things in existence in general, or with certain significant others, but also en masse? I have never experienced a truly world wide event on this level. I think that is part of why I’ve been fascinated by world wars in particular. I think about what it would have been like to be in what is undoubtedly a world-wide situation that is unfolding every day. To be afraid of what destruction might come down on your town or region every day. To be told to grow a garden because your country might not have enough food to sell you, or to bring in all your metal to be recycled into bullets or whathaveyou. To have this common enemy (I guess whichever side you were on, you shared an enemy).
I’m not trying to make assumptions, because I know there’s no agreement on the why and the how of reincarnation, but I for one feel that this crisis is a big part of why I came back to have a life now. There is a particular feeling to participating in this worldwide situation right now. I’m sort of dazed with awe daily that this is happening and I feel like there’s merit in the unification. (Again, I know, with a lot of differences in individual experience.)
Before vacation I’d quit my job and sold my house, so I came home and had to move the next day. Even that day, a few friends came over to send me off, now without hugs. Now I’m holed up in a new place and I’m okay. For me everything happened just in time - the vacation, the house sale, the change of employment (I decided to be self employed after taking a break for a while). It’s not the new beginning I’d planned, but still I have rather privileged vantage point, which I’m thankful for every day. And seeing how pollution has decreased sometimes I guess I’m hopeful that the crisis happened just in time for the planet too, to try to look at the positive.
Do you ever wonder why we reincarnate *when* we do - that it may be to work out things in existence in general, or with certain significant others, but also en masse? I have never experienced a truly world wide event on this level. I think that is part of why I’ve been fascinated by world wars in particular. I think about what it would have been like to be in what is undoubtedly a world-wide situation that is unfolding every day. To be afraid of what destruction might come down on your town or region every day. To be told to grow a garden because your country might not have enough food to sell you, or to bring in all your metal to be recycled into bullets or whathaveyou. To have this common enemy (I guess whichever side you were on, you shared an enemy).
I’m not trying to make assumptions, because I know there’s no agreement on the why and the how of reincarnation, but I for one feel that this crisis is a big part of why I came back to have a life now. There is a particular feeling to participating in this worldwide situation right now. I’m sort of dazed with awe daily that this is happening and I feel like there’s merit in the unification. (Again, I know, with a lot of differences in individual experience.)