Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of your reaction.
I can really feel this saying and finally understand it on some level. There has been so much struggle the last 2 weeks. So much learning and awareness of the self, of the affinities around us and of the world. Some loss and I am grieving that loss of friendship. Some things takes a full year of building and then it is easily destroyed in under 10-15 minutes of un-cautious words.
They are all a reflection of myself or I am a reflection to them and that is how they are portraying themselves in front of me. If I am mirrored or they are mirrored, I am upset with myself. If I don't like what I'm seeing then I must transform it if I do not like what I am seeing and experiencing.
There is so much work still, but what I have been able to do during these moments is seeing that it was a play of affinity has matured and we must allow it to go through its course. No matter how much pain, how much emotions of unjust, the want to protect, stand up for those who are being hurt and treated unjustly, we have to stand strong with righteousness to give them strength to endure it, experience it and overcome it. This was truly the hardest part, watching it happen, watching mom and dad experience it and not being able to do anything about it.