Cynicism - The devouring of imagination and commune
There has been a recurring theme in conversations lately. I realize that part of liberation work. Librefuturismo asks for hope, asks for imagining best outcomes. Something that Libra season, The Eclipse, and self unraveling offer on the altar.
4 days ago — 1. having or showing the attitude or temper of a cynic: such as a : contemptuously distrustful of human nature and motives.
Living in the assumption — based on previous experiences or not—that someone is going to harm us removes the space for awe, for chemistry, for joy, love, and the sacredness of commune.
Is a level of hopelessness and defeat that often times corrodes our humanity.
Relationships when intentional, honored, and deeply cherished leads to feeling capable of hope & possibility. Librefuturismo is deeply enveloped in love for ourselves, others, and our fellow humans.
Not in a way the does not ask accountability but in a way that holds the messiness of it in a continuum of care.
Allow the disruption of rigidity to be depended on, to be waited on, to be excited to experience for.
i have found discomfort in things i know were not true in my younger years. Many times dehumanizing betrayals steal that light of warmth from us, ask us to go into places shielded—war ready.
How do we let the light back in with rigid walls and shields?
We have to let them down. Hold onto our awareness and discernment but lead open hearted and hopeful.
What someone chooses to do with that sincerity is their own journey.
It has been a long time coming. A mode of receiving that I have forgotten to assign it as a default instead of being surprised by its existence. As in I have become so accustomed to undesired outcomes it has become expectation.
I exist (as the range of receptivity & intuitively as lighthouse of love) and cynicism has stolen from me these alternative realities. It means the systems that be had taken some wins from me: that I will not be prolonging in its success any longer.
often times we are told: “no one is coming to save us” but as many have said this is untrue. I go even forward to say it is cynicism designed as a hustle culture or systemic insert here quote.
Community. Chosen Family. Friends. A friendly stranger. Love in any of its forms does come to save us. Right on time. Do we also know the silence our beloved hold and through hope and love we reach out and grab?
trauma is part of the human experience unfortunately—it’s something that is shared in different levels and can also set some of us apart. To stay strapped for self preservation when getting to know others is to assume every attempt to love and be loved is a war. It makes the commune difficult, it leads to isolation, and shallow relationships.
Shallow isn’t enough to lead to desiring others to also be free.
To stand together shoulder to shoulder, embrace heart to heart despite so much is what brings us together towards a movement.
I go further into additional musings in my episode.
Cynicism is a form of eclipse — a nebulous turned solid covering of light that overlooks that light that remains within us. What a temporary moment that may have occurred more than once that should be a phenomena becomes our default. When The Sun - joy, vitality, new possibilities and/or The Moon - our intuitive, inner self, emotions overlap do not dance but they fight for truths.
Deep inside our soft, sensitive intuitive selves are made for both versions of light the sun and the moon.
May we not be devoured by cynicism and rise in our possibilities again.