Nothing I’ve seen or read about the conflict that we imagine started October 7th has brought home the human truth about it as clearly as this video has. Maybe that’s because we’re (I’m) usually speaking grandly about ideas and often from a too lofty position, a “high horse.” The video is a conversation with a mother who lost her only son on October 7th. Words fall short because the human truth of what happened is not primarily a matter of words. It’s more than that and can only be understood in a deeper and felt way, an embodied way. The turnaround to the story is that the mother (and here the words fall short again) has refused any desire for vengeance and done it out of love for her son.
To not be able to understand all the missed opportunities to have created a better outcome to this story (Gaza), is to allow a further development of the outcomes seen. To arrive at some point in the current dilemmas, and speak on behalf of what one sees and hears, will not alleviate the situation. Why do we so often rally against the horrible scenes before our eyes and claim the good fight against it, when we so casually forget the fact we failed everyone in this scene so long ago. Unless we address the roots of this, there is not enough love to fix it.
To not be able to understand all the missed opportunities to have created a better outcome to this story (Gaza), is to allow a further development of the outcomes seen. To arrive at some point in the current dilemmas, and speak on behalf of what one sees and hears, will not alleviate the situation. Why do we so often rally against the horrible scenes before our eyes and claim the good fight against it, when we so casually forget the fact we failed everyone in this scene so long ago. Unless we address the roots of this, there is not enough love to fix it.
Thank you, Andrew.
Love, is our way forward as it comes with understanding, wisdom and common sense.
John