After reading about the recent suicides in Spain, I thought about the shame people feel about money. Some people are ashamed of having been given too much and some of having been given too little. Regardless of the directionality of this shame, the result is an emphasis on comparisons between one's situation and another person's.
Those areas in life about which people feel shame are an emotional quagmire. People get stuck, feel desperate and commit desperate acts.
However, every problem has a solution. The purpose of this blog is to focus on solutions for those who have veered away from a spiritual life due to disappointments in the mundane world. At this moment, for a lot of people, the 'failure' of losing property or a job has become overwhelming to the point of considering the unthinkable. Material possessions and job titles have, for many people, replaced spirituality and a sense of self. Identity is completely wrapped up in being able to possess those things considered appropriate for a person of a certain age.
But life is not prescriptive, it is descriptive and you get to choose the adjectives.
I would argue that if the foundation of one's life is spiritual, the vagaries of earning, possessing and attaining would not painful enough to send someone into a spiral in which he/she would commit a crime - to one's self or others.
This is not to condemn those who've faced what seemed like insurmountable odds and had a momentary lapse of sanity and committed suicide.
This is a place to just get recharged and inspired.
August 2014 Creative Nonfiction Workshop in NYC
I will lead a workshop for Direct-Service Providers in Manhattan.
This workshop is exclusively for Social Workers, Teachers, Therapists, Hospice Workers, Nurses, etc.
Cost: $300.00
Location: Inwood / NYC
Day and time: Sundays from 4 to 6, starting the last weekend of August
8/24
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9/28
For info: odiliariverasantos at gmail.com
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