Dysfunction Is Invisible When It Is The Norm

" A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people. " ― Suzy Kassem

Never Expect A Sane Response From An Insane System, They Say.

We live in a culture where work matters more than health. Where the expression of emotions is for the weak. Where taking responsibility for our own healing doesn’t make it to our priority list. In fact, it doesn’t even make it to the end of our endless to-do list. Consequently, we wander through life, carrying our emotional wounds, repeating unconscious patterns, and yet, being completely oblivious to our own dysfunction.

It’s easy to dismiss, reject, project, or deflect our dysfunction, because unlike a physical ailment, it is not something that is necessarily visible to the eye. Our being can be filled with poison, and yet, unless we are to inject that poison out in the world, nobody would be to notice it, maybe not even our own selves.

Healing is the most important journey one can venture into, as without it, one may go on through life unconsciously being drawn to toxic situations that are all too familiar to the human mind. The truth is that what we can’t fix, we will keep on repeating. So long as we don’t acknowledge the work we need to do to our own self, we ought to keep on bringing ourselves, and perhaps others, into our own personal hell.

To make the invisible noticeable, we need to change our priorities. To change humanity’s way of thinking, we need to set the example. The healing of the planet starts with one human being at a time. We may think that starting on such a small scale may not make that much of a difference in the grand scheme of things, but the truth is that it absolutely does.

The fact is that it only takes a single person in a family to decide to put an end to the inheritance of a trauma that has been passed on from one family to the next. Our children won’t be immune to our wounded inner child if we never take the time to heal him. The behaviors, internalized messages, and ways of coping we picked up during our own childhood, will inevitably follow us through adulthood, unless we become aware of them, and choose to heal them.