On Loving Our Elders
...and expelling the ghost of the Great Reset.
This story is my heart.
It is about forgiving the broken elders and accepting their goodness.
It is about the difficult miracle of realizing that we have the full soul power to accept them into our hearts without taking in their ghosts. We are no longer haunted. We are love.
I believe that accepting our elders with love is a crucial part of breaking the bulldozer-over-soul cycle. I believe that by doing so, we have a chance at expelling the ghost of the Great Reset.
The Great Reset has a political face but its essence is spiritual brokenness. The Great Reset is a culmination of the mechanistic, fearful, reactive approach to life. It’s a neurosis-driven attempt to establish total control to avoid pain. And what is the antithesis to that? Love and forgiveness.
Love is a lot of work—including the love for the elders. But it is our way.
Let’s face it: when our parents were raising us, they did some things right, and some things totally wrong.
And here you are today, torn between love, gratitude, and resentment.
So what do you do when your adults—then your elders, once you grow up—are broken?
What do you if in your childhood, your adults did not acknowledge your joy and dragged you into a joyless march, a march you hated and ran away from—and now they are old, imperfect, nagging, perhaps, and they love you completely—but you still remember being unseen and you don’t necessarily stand for what they want you to do? You wish they were more understanding? You love them but you just wish that they hadn’t let you down by letting down themselves?
Here comes my prayer for the all-encompassing healing of all our elders, starting with our parents—for the healing of all of us—and for ending the cycle of martyrdom, sadness, and hurt.
We have the power to honor our elders while keeping their ghosts at bay.
They, too, went through a grinder, and it wasn’t easy for them.
They, like us, have always tried their best.
They, like us, were born into a Machine.
They, like us, have been damaged.
Perhaps they were taught to not believe in themselves. Perhaps they were taught to be dysfunctional in their relationships. Perhaps they were taught to be abusive or totalitarian. Perhaps they were taught to please others while betraying themselves.
But now it’s time to leave the crap behind and get to healing—and keep at it for as long as it takes us to heal.
We stand with our elders, not with the Machine.
They are giving us love, their very imperfect love—and we accept it.
We give them our love from the heart.
Our love melts all the ghosts and all the hang-ups.
Our love makes the fear afraid of us.
We are love, we are family.
We know it’s a difficult process—but we are not scared, and we have what it takes. Our imperfect sweet elders are worth it.
We are no longer haunted. We are love.
Love is all it’s ever been with them, and now we see it.
Thank you, Tessa, for this beautiful meditation on healing and forgiveness. My only (mild) contention is that most of the elders I know are attuned to the truth of what is occurring and are doing their best to resist tyranny. It seems to be younger generations (e.g., Millennials, although I know they’re blamed for everything ;-) who are primarily falling prey to the propaganda, likely because they were subjected to far more intensive indoctrination during their education. As a Gen Xer, I feel like I benefited from the advances made by my predecessors while having escaped (most of) the brainwashing younger generations have endured. I attended public schools throughout my life, and I was taught to practice critical thinking, independent thought, and questioning of authority—pretty much the opposite of what appears to be occurring today.
Thank you, Tessa. This really touched me. I shall be forwarding it to my daughter and post on FB. Having spent much time in Italy, the relationship with elders there is still inclusive and respectful, the family as a whole having far more importance. This holds true in much of the Mediterranean world. I feel we can learn from this as respect and love has not disappeared, as much as Klaus Schwab and the Davos clique may want it to be.
Conversely, when I see entire communities of elders shut away in Leisure World, California, with all their physical needs met but without social or familial integration, it breaks my heart. Yet this is the trend that the Great Reset is built on. As you wisely note, this machine has no soul and this soulless new normal of machine-learning smartphone-connected vaccinated social credits we are being led to accept will ultimately fail because it is without love.
Thank you again for your beautiful, heartfelt article. It is much needed.