What You can do for Egypt in your own Home

It is at this time impossible to not be aware of what is happening in the Middle East and most prominantly Egypt.  Thousands are demanding freedom from what has been for them repression as it has become too much to take, so they are taking to the streets.

I don't think there is anyone who has been hungry who doesn't feel something stir within them demanding that their hunger end.  While much of the world watches fed and comfortable from their couch, it is hard to relate and even harder to know what to do.  So by our human nature we tune it out and tell ourselves it is not our fight and move on to the next form of entertainment or distraction.

But what can we do, really?  If we are to build a new world, how do we fix the old that is beyond our ability to comprehend the complexities that made the old system?

And to that I say, we can't.  We will never understand fully how everyone and everything got to where it is.  Trying to understand through analysis and education may provide a level of comprehension, but it will never be complete.  The best thing we can do is acknowledge it is a mess and then focus on what we can do to create a version we DO want.

But letting go is hard, because to let go we've got to acknowledge we were part of the problem.  What do you, sitting on your couch, have to be responsible for in Egypt?  We are all part of the problem when we believe it is okay for others to be repressed, hungry and denied.  And in return, we are only making more of the same for ourselves.

Violence and protests will not change anything, though they give a temporary euphoria that change is possible.  What every person protesting really wants is their freedom.  Freedom to feed their family, freedom to earn a living wage, freedom to express themselves.

And that my friends is something we ALL have in common.  Where we differ is how we want that freedom to look - and here's the thing, we are all free to disagree on that point.  So we can really only help each other by supporting the abstract idea of what we share - our right to be free.

So how can you help?  Every time you take responsibility for your own freedom you empower the mass conscience to find more of its own.  We are all connected and there is no one thought that is not available or affecting to anyone else in this universe.  We don't judge, we just simply join in the idea of freedom.

I can only speak of the USA, but as a nation, we have done more to restrict the rights and freedoms of others in this world in ways and at levels that if we really understood, we would hide in shame.  We make the assumption our way is the right way and we demand it from others.  But, what if another country or another species came to our "home" and told us what to do and how to do it, how free would we feel?  What gives us the right to do this to anyone else?

The USA is getting its payback right about now and until we own our own desire for true freedom by also owning our denial of others freedoms, we'll all be stuck.  In the same way that the middle east can't deny the freedoms of its women and children and get true freedom for its men by its government.

Freedom for one, must be freedom for all or it's not freedom.  You can help the Egyptians as well as everyone else on this planet by owning your OWN FREEDOM.  And when I say own, I mean take full responsibility for it.  Each of has placed our freedom in the hands of some other power when its only true home can be in our own hands.  Own that and you not only help your self, you help the world.