One I had the night before and it was horrible. I dreamed of a loss of connection of a relationship, job and pet. I woke up and realized it was because of the loss of connection I experience on the Internet with the US community.
Last night I dreamed of working for Obama as a humble young man who didn’t do anything great. I think I was distributing pamphlets or something.
When I woke up I realized it was about connection. I realized that we have to find our connection in life, and then value those connections.
I value the connections that I have made in my life. I know that people often see others as transactional. I can use that person to get to the next stage of where I want to be. I never have seen people that way. People exist and deserve respect and to be sincere.
If you treat people with one criteria like their political belief, what happens if you are wrong? Then you will have wasted your community and your/others potential on a mistake. What if you are right? Then it doesn’t matter. If you are right about your political belief, all you have to do is wait, and let reality teach people how life works.
Political differences don’t make people evil or stupid. It is a physical difference in how our brains are structured. This is measurable on a MRI. People who “switch” may have some brain chemistry or perhaps their chemistry changed. There are known medical experiences where due to injury, accident or other factors brain chemistry is changed.
We can’t convince someone to be emphatic any more than we can be convinced that authority deserves our unquestioning obedience. It is unthinkable. To the person who’s brain chemistry says their reality is the one that makes sense, other people must seem crazy or stupid. It isn’t that at all. We are unique and different, and we need to value that.
I am convinced that what we are experiencing now are the mistakes it takes when people grow. It is frustrating to be patient while people slowly grow, but there is perhaps no other way. People sometimes have to feel the pain from their mistakes, and we are feeling that now.