I saw this video on a friend’s facebook page and it really made an impact, especially with what’s been going on in my life lately regarding speaking up and being authentic. Please watch the video – you won’t regret it!
Such a very powerful lesson at age 16 that impacted her whole entire life. As you can see, the experience was very significant and perhaps even traumatic for her, causing an emotional reaction as she recounts the story. It seems a part of her never left that classroom.
What do you do? Should be a no-brainer – get up and save the fish. We as humans are wired to care. It’s within us, it’s who we are. How is it that we have strayed away from this? Why is scholastic performance, as raised in in this example, become more important than helping to save a life? Really something to seriously ponder.
If I had been confronted with this particular situation, my actions would have varied depending on what stage I was at with my growth. As a young pre-teen person, I’d be shaking with fear, watching the fish die, praying someone would save it. I’d be saying – It’s all my fault. I must have done something wrong and am being punished. I used to take responsibility for the entire 5th grade class. In my mind it was always my fault – even though it wasn’t. Victim mentality.
Or possibly in my early 20’s or 30’s even, I would have been yelling at myself to go save the fish, get up and save that fish! Why aren’t you moving yet? Go save that fish!! Then immediately after someone else saved the fish – I’d beat myself up with guilt, you should have saved that fish. You should have been the one to get up and do it. Now you have to live with yourself as being weak. More victim mentality.
We can be really tough and downright mean to ourselves sometimes.
At yet another time in my life, I may have been in shock, thinking: What the heck is going on, it must be a joke. Please can we end this charade and move on with the class. So much of my life has been lived here. Keeping my head down, plodding along hoping for no rude interruptions. Just leave me alone and let me get on with it!
Waking up from Fear and being Controlled is a tough business, as is finding the freedom to speak up for the truth and defend the weak.
Being inconvenienced by having to wake up or do something. . . do I have to?
I’ve lived a lot of my life believing living was a massive inconvenience and I didn’t want to wake up and have to face this surreal existence. Ignorance is bliss right? Not until the cost of remaining small becomes greater than the payoff of remaining ignorant. I kept on keeping on, going through my growth-filled experiences, allowing me to gain a greater understanding of life here on Earth and clearing up my vision so I could really see.
A message from my guides!
I had, after all, made a commitment to come here to Earth and help. The stages of maturity are there for a reason. Some of us take longer than others. No judgment or value difference – just the path we choose.
The False-Kings-of-Tyranny want us scared, small and believing we are slaves, kicking and screaming all the way into suppression, doom and gloom. They program this into religion too as a way to control people – the tyrant God is to be feared. People in authority are to be feared . . . until they’re not. That’s the process of waking up and coming into acceptance of who we are.
When we fully accept and love ourselves – then that fear disappears and we become our own authority.
Given my recent experiences of waking up and becoming more authentic in my expression, how I’d react today would be:
Upon hearing the professor’s demands and watching him leave the room – I’d have to speak up after a few seconds. I wouldn’t be able to sit quietly in my seat. I’d get up, put the fish back in the bowl and then sit back down again. I wouldn’t care about the consequences. I’ve spent the past few years not complying without caring about the consequences.
Unless we are confronted with a situation like this, we rarely think about our actions or reactions. These past few years, many of us have had to really take a good look at this. Comply or not? Authority says to comply or suffer the consequences. What are the consequences actually? What are my priorities? What actions do I take if any? Many people were confronted with the possibility of losing their careers and livelihood. Is that even really a choice: comply or walk? Should anyone ever be made to choose something like this? No.
Lots of things to look at and consider, all contributing to the actions and decisions we can possibly make at the time. We really can’t look back in judgment – not a good idea. But we can take an inventory of our past experiences and go from there. As the lady in the video stated, this experience changed her life. I have no doubt of that.
Now, if I was the fish – I’d be like . . . Hey, what do you think you’re doing? Wait a minute there buddy!!! Don’t you realize I could die just so you can make a point? Put me back! PUT ME BACK!! 🐠 I have rights too!!
We are wired to care:
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