Raise a Glass

Hello Beloved, here is hoping that the week past was good to you. I am wondering if you have ever been lead to believe that some person or group or company or organization or candidate was the best thing going. Did you “drink the koolaid”? I have done that, more than once sad to say. Then sometime after the “it” factor starts to fade and we see the reality.

We happily go along our merry way thinking we are the on the right path. We get encouraged by others so we keep going. We get a glass handed to us and because everyone else around us has the same glass we think everything’s as it should be. After the glass is empty or nearly so we start getting a bad taste at the back of our throats. Suddenly our eyes open and we drop the glass and shake the fog from our minds.

When we are able to step away and see the larger picture we realize how dark and convoluted the little brush strokes we were stuck on really were. It is amazing to me how much one simple stroke can change the whole of the picture. I think the goal is to have harmony and peace and continuity throughout the entire picture. The reality is that sometimes someone comes along wielding a bigger, louder brush with which many are unwittingly given a “glass of koolaid”.

It is hard, very hard to muster the strength to put down the glass and think for ourselves. We want so much to belong that we are willing to overlook the warning signs that often are very small and faint in the beginning.

We want to believe that we are not being manipulated. We want to believe we are stronger than that and the people we have trusted are honest and have our best interest in mind. At some point, we become disappointed and disillusioned. We tell ourselves that no one will again fool us. We will hopefully find the right group of like minded people for us and somehow the best, the very best outcome will be achieved. Not for a small group of rich and power hungry but for every single “average person “.