Share

I have been pondering a lot lately about capitalism, politicians and life. I continually ask myself: "What would it take for all of humanity to live harmoniously, where we all share the wealth, we share the world's resources and we give of ourselves to one another?"

The burgeoning heaviness I feel in my chest is of a lethargy and laziness to act. In my fully satiated, plumped up state of indulgence, why rock the boat? Why change the status quo?

With all the uprising and striking and calls for more stringent methods of fairly distributing the wealth, I have been challenged to think outside of my cosiness. Only when our protected little world is threatened by strikes and empowerment issues, our own young struggle to find employment, the increasing costs of food and amenities start emptying the coffers, do we start to question, or certainly I did.

I think we can all admit that there is an uneven distribution of wealth. I think you'll agree that if we all share, no one needs to go without. But somehow we point the finger at the politicians as if they can make it all right, as though all the sharing has to come from them. We're happy to share as long as it doesn't affect us, as long as that share doesn't come out of our pockets. We sit in our well-appointed castles and throw stones. We want everyone to have food in their stomachs. But we don't eat a little less.

We are happy to share as long as our pie doesn't shrink. Yes, we're happy as long as someone else does the giving, not us.

Wow! Isn't it time to look within and notice that we are at the helm of the ship? We are the creators of that in which we find ourselves. We don't have equal distribution of wealth because some of us have much more of the pie than we can eat. We are greedy little capitalists. We all are. It is a human condition. Some of us are a little bit more and some a little less, but capitalists on the gravy chain is what we all are.

I am not pointing fingers at the 'haves'. Just watch the 'have-nots' that manage to get onto the gravy train and notice how quickly they hoard and stash away more than they could possibly consume in a lifetime. WE ALL DO IT.

So, to come back to my initial question, "What would it take..."

It would take for ALL of us to share, ALL of us to only eat what we each need, not what we want. It would take for ALL of us to know the difference between our WANTS and our NEEDS. It would take for ALL of us to care about the needs of others and to care about others' suffering. We need to see everyone else as the same as us with the desire for survival and to not suffer. We need to see others as shareholders on this Earth that we born into freely and that we each have an equal right to inhabit. We need to escape our capitalistic values of first come first serve and sorry for you if you snooze.

I want to leave this last thought with you. "Who stole the first piece of land that was all of ours, and duped us into believing that it was theirs to sell to us. Who started all this land ownership when GOD gave it to all of his children to share?" One greedy little capitalist who changed the face of the world as we know it. And because we were so easily misled, we now scramble and fight over land which was never ours to own in the first place. We compete and fight for qualifications and jobs that earn us paper money. Our concrete jungles are squeezing out all of nature in our bid to turn every bit of available land into a money making opportunity.

We need to share. You and me. We need to give a portion of our pie to those who don't have any and I don't mean our rejects and our scraps. We need to relinquish our entitlement and share the good stuff, not our left overs.

This week ask yourself what you'd be prepared to share. When you die and you cannot take all your unfinished pie with you, will you have regret for all those who went without because of your stockpile?

You have to be fearless to share. Think about it.

all my love
Nicolette