Two Hard Lessons I Learned In My Life

One of the hardest lessons I learned in my life is that we can't love someone more than they are willing to be loved or in a way that they don't want to be loved or intervene before they are ready to be "saved". We can't decide when it's time for someone to recover from alcohol addiction, food addiction, drug addiction or from violence and addiction to primitivism.

Another one of the hardest lessons that I learned is that those who are willingly enslaved and allow evil to occur because they will not organize themselves into an effective force against evil are more reprehensible, and responsible, for their unhappy condition than are those who enslave them.

All we can do is be there for the ones who come of their own free volition and according to their own time table.

Humankind has not yet evolved to the point where we know how to form alliances based on purely altruistic and other-serving principles. Evil people are better at organizing based on selfishness, brutish competition and hierarchies, than are the good folks - and creation favors organization.

So long as the peace-lovers who will not organize are atomized and dispersed we remain powerless and it remains wholly indeterminable whether we would, if we organized, constitute the critical mass necessary to change things - we deserve every kick in the butt we get because it need not be this way.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com