All it Takes

Everywhere we look everyone looks and sounds...perfect.  Beautiful models in magazine ads, stunning people on every TV show.  Picture-perfect romances in every movie.  So many people with such better lives on every social media outlet fanning out seemingly endless pictures of their amazing houses, cars, vacations and meals we secretly know we can never have.  People announcing their new power jobs on LinkedIn, respected for their elite knowledge and skills that we can never measure up to.  Everyone everywhere having more fun than we are.  Somehow it all can conspire to make us feel small, worthless and insignificant.  Believing we are failures by comparison we fall into anxiety and depression, feeling woefully inadequate at every aspect of our lives.  THIS IS NOT THE TRUTH.  In fact, nothing could be further from it.  As a human being, we inherit a sacred birthright.

YOU ARE ENOUGH
YOU MATTER
YOU ARE WORTH LOVING
YOU DESERVE HAPPINESS
YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

Every one of us, at the basic spiritual level, are equal.  Completely, totally, genetically equal.
Every one of us has within us the power to make the world a better place.  The pain, hardship and rejection we have faced gives us the ability to have empathy for others and show them our compassion.  We gain the wisdom of knowing that hurt doesn't last forever.

The worst part of modern messaging is the pressure to divide us from each other.  Our differences in appearance, social status, wealth, education, religion, sexuality, political beliefs, career choices are highlighted in an effort to make us feel jealous or resentful of each other.  Their aim is to break the inherent bonds which connect us and to deny us our human birthright, the same birthright our other brothers and sisters have.

Fight Back.  Resist the messages.  They can say whatever they want, but they can only divide us if we allow them.

Start small if you must.  Start by showing compassion to those around you.  Change the world right in front of you.  Resist the pressure to be cold to each other and instead light the world up a little brighter with your smile, your words and your compassion.  Let yourself care.  Don't ever let pain or hardship close your heart to the joy of helping others.

It's never too late.