If you ignore the weeds, eventually they will take over. Just as if we allow people to make the same mistakes over and over and over again, the wrong or hurtful or dangerous ways will take over. Why is it socially unacceptable to point out the error of one's ways? Why is it wrong to acknowledge that making mistakes is natural. Everyone makes mistakes. Yes, even you! When did it become a sign of weakness rather than a sign of humility to admit when we are wrong? If not from mistakes, and even failures, how do we learn? How do we grow? How do we become better people? Why do we consider a life lived unaware of our personal shortcomings to be a life of luxury?
When did discipline, personal and parental, become passe?
When did relationships with power and money become blatantly more important than relationships with people?
It used to be that money, politics, and religion were forbidden topics of conversation even among friends. What did people talk about? What would Facebook look like if posts relating to politics, religion, and money were forbidden? If the conversations that dominate are not about how we spend and/or waste our money, or debating whose religion is best and why most of the world's population is going to hell, or defending and criticizing political moves that have nothing to do with governing this country and everything to do with using, abusing and manipulating people so that a handful of undeserving individuals gain personal power, what would we see in our news feeds? Lots of kittens and puppies? That would be OK with me.
How did we get here?
Why are we still here?
Yes, we need to acknowledge and try understand the weeds. We also need to learn how to tend our gardens...
...how to tame the weeds...
...how to keep them from choking out the roses.
