I aim to show love for everyone without any sparring, although I’ve been trained in combative sports. Social media brings out sparring behavior, but it creates turmoil in my soul to take a strong view of one group against another. However, I care deeply about our Jewish community. I think the entire victim versus oppressor model needs to be de-emphasized in favor of a unified love-for-all perspective. This world needs models, theories, and ideas for love, not division. Once these theories take root, they can grow into beautiful, lush forests that proliferate love toward every entity in every corner of the universe. The seeds need to be planted with each of our gentle, nurturing hands.
I plan on making another theatre pre-show ad. That’s because my last ad was published for free, so I promised the theatre staff I’d make another one once I started working. Yesterday, I made the video ad, and it’s the most spectacular yet. Once I start working, I’ll put it on the local theater’s screens for a month and possibly at a Cineplex for a week. I didn’t reference the Jewish community in the ad, and the voice-over quotes are the author’s, not mine, but the message applies to everyone given an unfair shake by mainstream media. The ad calls on us all to see the beauty in all people. We are all worthwhile and beautiful as we embark on our ultimate mission, which is to love and care for one another and never to be combative.
Today, I couldn’t resist but show my empathy and love for our Jewish community by posting on a university forum. The forum, like many university forums, showed support for the pro-Palestine protests but didn’t acknowledge the fearful environment these protests created for our Jewish student community. Our Jewish community is beautiful, inspirational, and magnificent. We all are. The mentor who brought the wisdom of unconditional love to me is Jewish. And universities are not forums for pitting the entire student body against a cultural group. Universities must, at minimum, be places for uniting people with love and support, ensuring everyone’s safety. Learning takes place when people are safe and at peace, not when people walk through hallways in fear, encountering masses of students wearing full facial masks, signifying a vendetta against their culture. I can’t even imagine how scary that would feel.
As a show of love for our Jewish student community, our disability community, or any other cultural group given an unfair shake by the media and university campus student unions, here is a song for us that my dear one exposed me to today: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WsidcB-24JU. I can’t imagine how scary seeing graffiti splattered all over a campus against one’s cultural group must feel. As the song says, hold our heads up high, don’t be afraid, reach for the sky, because we are superstars! We love and protect one another at AU! We are all pure light and love!
And then tonight, I saw a near-death experience story about a female angel who showed unconditional love for everyone and everything, which is my philosophy. However, she had a combative side that was not clearly explained. I believe the quest for unconditional love should not be at all combative. I would love to strive to be more like Jesus and Gandhi combined, as they are unconditional love, peace, and unity without any swords.
Long ago, a friend drew a woman with armor and swords and told me I needed to be that version of a spiritual human being. She was upset because she said I had no defenses. However, I insisted I didn’t want any swords but maybe wear armor. Each of us is different, and we all have beautiful strengths—every one of us—no matter what circumstances we’ve undergone. Everyone has emotional wounds. Everything, including the rocks, grass, and birds, deserve nothing but empathy and love. That’s because if we understood everyone’s life path, we’d feel nothing but love, as we are all truly beautiful. We are all on a journey to learn and to unconditionally love.
And then I thought, “Jesus, I’ve got to believe you still have infinite growth opportunities although you are perfection.” That’s because I believe our growth potential, everyone’s, is infinite. And I thought about how my friend spoke to Jesus and then God in her near-death experience. I said, “Jesus, if God himself is even more magnificent, then I’ve got to believe you have the opportunity to grow even more perfect.” I believe nothing is impossible; everything imaginable is possible, so growth and learning must have no limits, too. And then I heard and felt the most beautiful, splendid, soft, soothing laughter, which I “knew” was the voice of Jesus. I was blown away. It brought me immense comfort. Therefore, as an idealist, I assessed that I must grow into someone like that angel who unconditionally loves everyone and everything. But I need to do so without a combative side. And I suspect that unconditional love for all might be everyone’s most authentic calling in the grand scheme of life.
