Dear Russia
Dear Russia,
I just saw a poll that said that 70% of those polled feel Russia is the biggest threat to the world. (Are congratulations in order?) And it made me wonder. Why? Is it because you’re all sitting in your homes after a long hard day at work, barely making ends meet, toiling to plot our destruction? Is it because you are a nation of war-hungry people excited by the prospect of spilling your own children’s blood? Is it because you’re a nation of hackers and trolls, whose sole purpose in life is to destroy the shreds of democracy abroad? Not likely.
I just wanted you to know that at least one person outside your borders sees past the propaganda and does not vilify you. I know the biggest threat to the world is the division that makes us fear one another. And I know you, just as I am, are subject to the arrogance and self-interests of your leaders and the various monied interests that pull their strings. You are not nor have you ever been my enemy, and I absolutely refuse to be brainwashed into thinking you are.
You are pawns as we are pawns. You are cannon fodder as we are cannon fodder. You struggle as we struggle to preserve your quality of life and the lives of those you love, fighting against your own versions of corruption and bureaucracy that are making life on this earth we share increasingly difficult.
But the only enemy I see is the ego that blinds us to truth, justice, love and beauty, that leads us to spend our precious life’s blood and potential defending against, blaming, and hating “other”, and that takes us down roads of self-destruction in the name of spite. And all peoples of all nations share that single and very same enemy. There are no exceptions.
It is for each one of us to defeat the only enemy in the way of our peaceful coexistence, a single enemy that bears many names:
Confusion
Deceit
Corruption
Ignorance
Fear
No one is Russian or American, a woman or man, or some political affiliation. We are Life living. We are Aware. Let us all awaken from this nightmare of separation and heal the traumas that sabotage the recognition of our unity. Let us embrace the truth of our oneness and enter into a cooperation that can lead to an evolved world order, free of waste and bloodshed, in which every life is truly sanctified.
It’s what the majority of us want…no matter where we live.