Yes, dears, the FFF theme is going to be rebranded slightly. Check the relevant page on the bar above for refreshed criteria and a new badge! It is to be hoped that a few more of you might be inspired to have a go. Writing is one of the great cathartic pursuits - in whatever form works best for you, I encourage you to stretch your word-crafting boundaries! Meanwhile, today, I bring you my last offering under the current banner... although this is probably not fiction...
QUANTUM QUESTIONING
Is that particle over there vibrating with the anger that rises in me? Or am I reflecting the anger in it? Knowing that particle to be me at a distance, can it distance me from that anger? All particles are not equal, yet all, we are told, share a connection - so why this variety in our existence? The variety which permits such darkness in our corners? The variety that sheds light yet still struggles against the lurking shadows?
Whence arose this anger? What fuels it? Some of the coals I see: the tyranny that flirts at the corners of society; the monsters permitted to grow on our peripheries; the loss of faith in leaders; the despair at backward thinking; the rattling of sabres - or equivalent threats... Can they all be listed?
It is stark, this spiral. Generation after generation seems determined to cover the same track. History is an ocean. Its waves cresting in light and latitude and dropping into troughs of murk and mayhem. In the Quantum State, we can be at any point on that surface. We can be the very droplets of that ocean. That particle over there is me, and it is you. We are one, but too many are blind to it. Clinging to individuality, the sight of our singularity is lost. Ultimately we all fall back into that one point of being-ness, only to emerge again - but at what point? On the crest of a light-filled era, or into "interesting times"?
Anger is an anchor upon my jiva - the me that Is, which is not this body. Anger, ego, grief and other states tie one down and prevent the freedom to join that distant particle which is me, at a different point of existence. Anger needs conversion... let it be in positive deeds and not in harsh words, a negative mind, or manifest in hatred and violence. A work in progress...
Ⓒ Yamini Ali MacLean 2022
PS - Chance of a 'positive deed'... in case you did not see it, or as a reminder, I put out a call to action on the Christmas Eve Post. I am going to keep placing the link. Please spread the word, and quickly. The Collection Pot is only open until January 13th. Thank you.
Hard to know how to comment on this when one looks at the world through a rather different lens. I'll keep reading though!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Gail.
Here not angry so much as disappointed, drowning a bit in the desperation of it all: war, environment, consumerism, daft politics, unsustainabile economic goals...based in consumerism, ...no point telling you, you have got it all piling up there too. I did decide a while back that I am tired of being angry, but I read recently that it appears that as a population ALL women are angrier now than pre-covid. There are lots of theories as to why. Something to research perhaps. Xxx F
ReplyDeleteI fellow blogger asked me why I despise Facebook and my answer was because the things I read on there make me angry. And now I read that we are angrier after covid then we were before but I don't see any difference. I get angrier at my husband than I used to but I feel that that is because he is old and I am old and we are sitting our ways and when you get older the things that we're not so bad are worse. I'm not so angry at the world as I get tired of hearing people praying for peace because there has never been peace and there never will be peace unless all the people are gone from this Earth humans and capable of living at peace
ReplyDeletePS. love the new badge and the new name Final Friday Feature... here are the links to mine today, https://snapperone.blogspot.com/2022/12/alesandra-and-barber-circa-1985-fff.html
DeleteYAM what a fun new title. Most of my FFF have not been fiction anyway so this works for me.
ReplyDeleteThe badge of your sweet Angel suncatcher is perfect too.
Interesting post YAM, I'm not an angry person by nature. Maybe because I try to stay away from all the craziness in the media etc. I hear it but somehow my mind must have a way of letting it go. I was a worrier for many years but as I've aged I try to let go things I cannot fix, trying to concentrate on the good around me.
Hugs cecilia
I have a smaller range of emotions than many - just who I am, but anger is one I feel very intensely and am working on not being as reactive when it comes up. I look forward to the changes to FFF and will have to come back next month as I fear the changes won't stick in my head for a month lol!
ReplyDeleteA long time ago, I understood anger to be a pretty useless emotion for me. I can only speak for myself here. So I let go of it. Of course, I still feel the pain of war, cruelty toward animals and my fellow human beings, and so on. If I were younger and healthier now, I would do more to help physically, now I give money when I can, call friends who need to talk, send some cards out to let friends know I care. It's not much, but it's better than letting anger eat away at me. And as you say above, I concentrate on all the good that surrounds me. Ageing really helps with all these things.
ReplyDeleteAnger is a tough emotion. I've just been sad for days! Anyway, we move on. XX
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