I'm going to say something that is unpopular. Too many of us don't live in the moment...
Ok so that in itself is not unpopular. But what I'm going to say next is. And that is that while I am in FULL 1000% AGREEMENT THAT TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION ARE EVIL!, that he must go NOW, I also think that a LOT of the problems in the world are a product of so many of us being unable to live in the moment. I'm not talking about fundamental things like health care, those are fundamental humanitarian rights that every human being deserves access to for free. Remember I hate Trump, we are on the same team. What I mean is the inability to distance ones self from ones emotions and triggers renders one a puppet of their own emotions. At the mercy of whatever breeze chooses to blow by. By which I do not mean that the thousand and one horrors, and indignations of the world should not move us. Very much the opposite. But an inability to gain perspective in many ways leaves us in a place that is not that much better than those on the right who happen to be totally introspection free, which on the right is almost all of them.
I am not of course saying that living in the moment is going to cure someones cancer, pay them through their retirement if their retirement savings are stolen. It very much is not a substitute for basic human compassion. But it needs to be something that augments our compassion. Because once you start gaining some perspective on things you start to realize the things that really matter. This and so many other forums are so full of infighting because people forget to see the forest.
There are a lot of things that mater in this world. Whether someone else cusses me out, or makes fun of my beliefs, or angrily disagrees with me isn't one of those things. Not that intolerance, racism, sexism, and homophobia are ok, indeed precisely the opposite these are the ONLY things that mater. We seem to remember the later but too often forget about the former. We need to gain perspective over what REALLY matters.
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Reactions are triggered, responses are chosen. Took me 60 years to learn the difference. I'm 63. 
