297. Who are YOU when life gets REAL?

Have you ever heard someone maybe a historian or someone who studies human nature say “the only way to bring the country together is we have to have something big happen like a war” Like when 9/11 happened our country came together in a big way because we realized what’s important, what really matters and for a moment we through away our built in prejudices and just loved. It didn’t matter your political party, your race, your religion, or where you lived in the country. We were all Americans and we had been attacked. Life got REAL real fast. And when life gets REAL the facades are dropped, the curtains are opened, the hard outer shell is cracked and there we are just raw, true, authentic emotion. Who hasn’t felt that? When crisis happen it can cut pretty deep. It can be scary, and shocking, it can make us reevaluate what am I doing? What in the world really matters? But eventually we go back to that identity we created. After 9:11 things gradually calmed down and we started living in our new normal, we slowly built the facades back up, we eased the curtains closed, we reinforced that hard shell and went back to living life slowly separating ourselves from each other in a way. Now this kind of thing happens on a small scale in communities that have tragedy. Even one step further… families that go through tragedy. It’s a time when people come together and the little quarrels, the differences they don’t matter for those brief moments we allow ourselves raw, true authentic emotion. Because deep down that’s who we are. Deep down we want connection, we want authenticity, we want realness not this facade that religion puts up, not this divide that politics puts up, not this shell that people put up. Your Raw true authentic self doesn’t care what religion people are, it doesn’t care what political party people affiliate with, it doesn’t care what color people are or where they’re from. It just wants to love. All you have to do is look at little kids to know that. They don’t care until they are conditioned to care.  Check out the episode to hear the rest!  I love you guys...:)