My Freedom Is In Your Hands

I listen to my wife’s voice recordings of these weekly readings every week before she submits them to awaken.org. This one hits the nail on the head in today’s world. Everything is not about us but about the greater good. When did our culture bring about such a narcissistic society, this ‘it’s all about me’ mentality? No consideration for our fellow human beings or even our fellow inhabitants of this planet. The mantras we hear: “Me. My freedoms. My rights. No obligations to humanity but what’s in it for me?” I imagine the people who subscribe here are not of that mindset but why are so many others? What happened? Where did the train derail? When did we stop caring about each other? This piece indeed makes me mindful that all my actions have a greater affect on all of you, all of humanity.

Dear Bob, this is it exactly! Where has the consideration and compassion for our common humanness gone? I think you are right in that those who are here on this site have a deeper understanding or wish to understand more and connect more to those around us. We all need to be that "light" and example to plant seeds of love and compassion in the hearts of our fellow caretakers of this beautiful earth. Blessings~ Namaste~

I'm think what happened is we got into this age of entitlement by way of parents' undisciplined love for their children, wanting to give their children everything, resulting in children learning it's all about them. I think what you call the 'all about me' mentality is the result of misguided distorted love.

Amen David! Spot on!