The ability to leave a little better where it goes
posted by Deva Harischandra Jessica
There are people who consider it an advantage to take advantage of situations, people and places. Wherever they go, they believe that they get along well for taking something away, deceiving and using people, passing someone behind, thinking only for their own benefit, without caring about anything else.
And there are people who always find a way to make the place where they go more beautiful, joyful and pleasant, make a positive difference in the lives of the people they meet, relate to situations in a responsible and loving way.
We are human and we often end up oscillating between these patterns. But the more the level of consciousness rises, we perceive ourselves as a unit, as part of everything and we begin to change our view and our attitudes in this sense.
Each of us is full of powers, qualities and abilities that can contribute to the environment in which we are. We can use all of them to cooperate, setting aside the vision of a reality in which we are in competition with each other.
It is common for us to have been raised believing that life is a struggle and that we need to attack and defend ourselves all the time. That everything is difficult to conquer and that the strongest prevails. But you can see that this is just a mistaken view that we have been taught, and that we can break with it, and that we all gain more when we cooperate than when we compete.
We have daily opportunities to improve our surroundings, fixing something, making where we go more beautiful, taking care of nature, being generous and kind, casting welcoming glances and smiles, words that encourage, having affectionate attitudes, attentive listening, being present, being honest, distributing loving gestures, teaching something, sharing our powers, being careful and respectful with those we love, with whom we don't even know and with ourselves.
There are countless ways to contribute financially, materially, energetically, emotionally, serving in some way... Each of us can contribute. The first step is to know and recognize your own powers and naturally put yourself at service when possible or even volunteer to do something on a certain day and time.
Asking yourself how love would act in certain situations can help direct actions accordingly. Taking care of yourself is essential for this too, only those who are well taken care of can take care of. To donate something you have to have an abundance, you don't overflow what you don't have.
We have many possibilities to share our talents, leaving a beautiful, useful and loving imprint of our presence wherever we go. May we know how to take advantage of opportunities and leave a little piece of our best wherever we go.