@AMusingChickadee I read your note about some people’s nasty behaviour above. It is something that has really confounded and racked me too. I have read loads of stuff to understand it and there are loads of reasons - stuff like jealousy, insecurity, low self esteem, a lot regarding emotions that’s one thing yes, amongst others. When it occurs in a group, group dynamics really add a whole other menu of things.
Re frustration at it, I have thought about it a lot and am groping toward some idea that in Western? Western Anglo culture - which I’m assuming many here are in ie UK, Commonwealth countries and USA(this is how I’m categorising as I feel my way to figure out patterns and gain an understanding, it’s a for-now tool, nowhere is a monolith of course etc etc) there is a belief that “naturally” fairness should prevail and that right always wins out and there should always be some kind of poetic justice. And when this doesn’t occur it is confounding. I wonder if the idea that things are fair in the way we often think of it, as a default is a human frame of things placed over what is. So when real life occurs and not according to our idea of fairness and right prevailing it makes you baffled. Has anyone ever been in a workplace and noticed (one eg, there are loads of variations)there is a quiet industrious person beavering away who always takes up the slack and there is a loud showy person who actually makes loads of mistakes, steals other’s work and is very effective at looking good to management. And the showy person often does come out on top and the other person is overlooked and sometimes even crushed somehow eg by someone accusing them of something and them not being able to advocate for themselves well enough. Or a situation where someone is very good at workplace politics and engages in a lot of underhand unethical shenanigans and succeeding. What about cases in the news where someone is assaulted and there is a group of people standing around doing nothing - sometimes even cheering in a frenzied way and taking photos.
I think there is some kind of energy that can take hold. Sometimes it can go toward unfortunate stuff.
On the point I said about Anglo culture’s idea of fairness, I think other cultures have ethics as well, maybe some are a bit more nuanced and in tune with how things go even? I really am still trying to figure things out - very very woolly and only a wondering! Does anyone else have thoughts on this?
Maybe my situation has been that I have focused on content/ facts/ being analytical in an event whereas many others have lead with emotions, instinct and herd psychology. We’ve been at odds =me bewildered.
Anyway I believe in an energy including prayer.
@AMusingChickadee re feeling awkward about asking things for yourself, I too have felt like this. I think there is a strain in Christianity that says you should efface yourself, put others before you, don’t be self seeking, greedy etc that can be perverted into thinking we have to wear some kind of hairshirt that really sticks with people and makes them feel guilty for thinking of themselves. Of course i can thinking of at least one Christian denomination that has a crude simplistic advocating of get rich for yourself it’s (nearly the only thing?) what God wants! now which is going too far on the other direction.
Think of some of these things - you have to take care of yourself properly if you want to be able to really take care of others. We are all one and what is best for you(truly best not some short term, incomplete view of things) is best for others. God wants to be known and be and that is what you can enable by believing, talking and asking God for things - allow God to act through you.
I’m sending you a special prayer that all things go well for you in whatever way that is. Even when you haven’t asked because you deserve it!
@FauxLiz - prayer said for you to get the job. It sounds like it means a lot to you. When you have a very strong feeling and will for something, something will shift to move you to it/it to you I think. Keep praying for it and the universe will give you what you want - or better in some way and form.
@Lionheart - you and like affected are getting a big prayer from me!
