After recommending it to a friend, I've been really into David Bowie's album Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and one of my favorite songs is a lesser known song called Five Years.
In this song, Bowie tells the tale of how we've recently learned that the world is ending and we have - you guessed it - only five years left.
Now, I'm not saying the world is ending (although the world as we know it, is definitely shifting in a big big way). However, one part of the song has been deeply striking me, and I just find it so beautiful in its poetic way:
"And all the fat skinny people
And all the tall short people
And all the nobody people
And all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people."
Wow. I never thought I'd need so many people.
Yes. When times are hard, when "the end" is looming, we cannot separate.
We do need each other.
Please remember that throughout these times, we are constantly being programmed to hate and to divide amongst ourselves. The effects of this separation are massive - do you feel them?
I do.
As you walk around the grocery store and have started to fear the other human in a mask near you (don't get too close to me! Don't touch me! Don't look at me!), you are losing a sense of community and thus, humanity.
We are being conditioned to fear one another, to separate from one another - not just socially to avoid spreading an illness, but idealogically, politically, and spiritually.
The true medicine is in community and coming together. It is one of the core pillars of health. There have actually been scientific studies that prove that even the healthiest person physically will NOT have optimal health if they are isolated from relationships, physical touch, and a sense of belonging in community. Feel free to research that.
I never thought I'd need so many people.
How true.
Now is not the time to allow external powers to separate and divide us. Now is the time to both look within and do your inner work, and to reach out and connect with others.
Our lives depend on it.