The poet Dylan Thomas wrote the heroic phrase, “Rage against the dying of the light.”
There’s a lot of rage going around these days, especially in my country. It threatens the very fabric of the nation, as it would any nation.
But that’s because it’s being evoked in a negative fashion due to the fact so many, if not most, of us are being enraged and are being pulled into the vortex of negativity in response.
What’s needed is the taking of a breath before addressing the issue.
And that starts with a calm understanding of what’s necessary to deal with it and a resolute decision to being willing to commit to whatever needs to be done.
The truth is that there is a positive side to rage.
It comes in taking that stand against the “dying of the light.”
The “light” is what all societies have been trying to understand, since the dawn of humankind.
It’s the opening to All. It’s the understanding that there are no boundaries, no differences, no separations between countries, races or peoples. We are all part of the same Earth that can, now, be viewed from above as by those fortunate few who have been in those rockets that have, recently, circled our globe.
For each of us, the “light” is the realization of not succumbing to be enervated, but in establishing a calm surety that we cannot be broken…that our light can never be extinguished.
Bottom line, negative rage is partially self-directed, arising from realizing the atrocities being committed and not doing anything about it.
Positive rage derives from engaging with the atrocities on however small a level one is able to muster; the knowing you are a valuable part of the All because you are you.
Join the young Eve depicted above and Rage On with that thought!