I can’t breathe

When you got two kids (or 20), as a parent you’d try your best be fair to all. You’d include every kid in anything. This is a simple example for “inclusion”, except you need to bring this quality to the limelight even if they are not your kids. It can be hard, not impossible to practice this. 

Three steps for a start. 

1. Hear them out. 

2. React positively.

3. Create opportunities for others to speak and for yourself to listen. 

When someone says, “ I cannot breathe”, you hear them out, you react in ways to alleviate the pain, not the other way round. 

If you can’t appreciate “Nine months in a womb” and “a beating heart”, the universe doesn’t appreciate your existence. 

Stay well. Stay safe. Appreciate life. 

Hearts that beat matter, not the transient gift wrap it comes with. 

Awakenings can happen, without triggering an unfortunate situation. 

(Post triggered by a recent inhuman tragedy on the news)