If someone dies who you “feel” you had a
connection to you, you can very easily be thrown for a moment out of your daily
routine. That is how I felt today when Mork* made the decision to return to Ork
for what seems to be a reason of having too long needing to cope with the
pressure of being here “on earth”.
A childhood series I loved growing up
with and the actor portraying my alien hero, who saw pictures flowing in his
mind but knew he wasn’t at the cinemas cause chewing gum wasn’t stuck under the
bed when he awoke, has said “tschuss”.
I have bipolar, depression and dementia
in my extended family. I know friends who have mental illnesses they keep in “check”
with medication and therapy. Do they speak open about it? No. Does my family be
open about it? No. It is all hush, hush until, like by my cousin (bipolar)
until he thinks he is super man and takes a leap from a three-storey building
landing on his heels and crushing both feet to a thousand splinters. He lived.
The other substances in his body took care of that, although the manic
depression was having him operate from another plane at the time. I love him dearly. He is considered by
all in my family circle to be a handful. I wonder why? He has fantasy. He has
energy. He had potential yet honestly he is just captured in a body, which is
operating at such a rate he cannot understand it and neither has anyone else
tried to over the years. I live on the other side of the planet from him hence
I cannot check up on him. Today I sent him a large cosmic hug. He could be
anytime in the same space capsule like Mork, ready to take off at a moments
notice with only him, being aware of the departure time.
This is why it is so important that we
as brothers, sisters, cousins, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, neighbor’s, and
work colleagues, wake up and learn to take care of those in our immediate
sphere who are not doing so well. Just like with a stroke, there are tell tale
signs of mental illnesses and taking a wee bit of time out of your routine to
inform yourself could be the difference between a father that is still here for
his family he leaves behind, or not.
I am not saying by any means you could
definitely be the one who saves another life if informed but the chances do
increase! There are so many symptoms you say, how could I even know two or
three that could then be of benefit? Well if you knew that many by a stroke for
instance, the person concerned would have a very good chance of survival as
well as improvement from the side effects.
We underestimate our influence from
being informed. This begins also by our speaking up. Last week a guest said to
me I was “special”. This is not
understood for many as a compliment but she meant it in the nicest way, for she
was referring to the fact I take the situation I am dealt and deal with it. I
do not run away nor do I shun the fact it could be absolutely against my grain
or societies to react. I speak out. For many it is abrupt, over powering, too
much. For me it is actually toned down and not nearly as much as I would like.
Everyone has fear breathing down their necks and lives their lives by it. I do
not want to be in this position.
Do you want to be aware of each and
every moment or do you wish rather to ran rather like a rat in the under ground
feeding of another’s waste and surviving by using cunning as the means to
existing? Those with a mental illness feel much more like the rats trying to
retain normality as their coat but knowing the sewers are their hovels of
salvation. There they can breath and feel normal without judgment or control.
Both elements, normal society places on the category of mental illnesses and
those suffering under its weight.
Know it is normal to feel disillusioned
with the whole world more than once in your life and if anyone has told you to
"buck up and just put your head down" he or she are only bluffing!
They have had just as many doubts and tribulations as you. Maybe even more only
perhaps they simply had a better safety net in place at the time. Or a strong
hold on a substance that kept them here.
There are so many systems, fractions and
belief systems in place to belittle you and make you feel small but the
grandest source that created you is only love pure. Let me say this once more
just to make sure you read it correctly. The grandest source that created you
is only love pure. This source had no intention of saying if you should or
should not be of this gender, live this life, reach these heights, follow this
belief, create the world in this manner, do this job, marry this person,
undertake this war, live this system of belief. You have been given immense
possibilities to expand creativity, physically and mentally. We humans have
created the cage, which holds us in. We have become the demons in person who
rob one another of reaching our highest potential. It is sadly the reason so
many of us feel lost. Crying out into the dark, who is there to hear us?
Just your once reaching out to one
person, who takes an hour out of their routine to hear you, can be honestly the
difference between living a tomorrow or not. Mental illness can be set off from
a death in the family, an hormonal imbalance, a latent gene trait that surfaces
due to a stress situation. Be that person who takes time for another now please
to catch and help when this happens. Be also the person to call out if you feel
it happening to you. Courage is in being there to help AND knowing when to ask
for it.
When you come from your heart nest (the
tender space that encases your heart energy/impulses of love and also your
physical heart) and say what you want, why and do exactly what you wish, you
will be understood, loved, healed and take the steps to living a healthy
fulfilled life. Then you can begin to flow in unison with all around you. You
need to trust yourself. You also need to hear others. It is a two way street.
You need to understand you have worth and a right to live. We want you here,
just as much as we ourselves want to be here.
Call out into the dark you feel yourself
surrounded by and know there is an enlighten soul there to hear you. Please do
not keep quite. Reach beyond your comfort zone and embrace the humanity waiting
outside your encasing. If you hear a cry then listen and react towards it not
from it too. It could be the
difference between life and death to soon.
Your Korus whispers
(*I refer here to Robin Williams’s suicide
in my mentioning “Mork from Ork” 12.08.14)