2021.03.05

The pope is visiting Iraq. It is said that it is the first time that a pope is visiting Iraq. A lot of people have left Iraq as the country was not safe for Christian people.

How come that people make war because of religion? Is not the most important in all religions to love? Not only love one self, but also the other?

We are all individuals, which means that we all have different needs, and we all have our own ideas about what is good and what is wrong. What has to be done or not and about what we expect from others.

The family and the place where we were raised, have a big influence on the convictions that we have. Being born in Europe makes that there are social security laws that make that the chance that one does not have any income, is a lot lower than in the East, where there are no such laws and everyone that does not have a paid job is depending on family or friends.

In Holland there is a discussion about the children that live in families that are (relatively) poor so the parent(s) can not pay for dancing lessons, sports or maybe schoolbooks which can make that the other children in the class decide that that poor child is not worth to be friends with.

Those children may get a low sense of self-confidence or, if they are strong, they may decide that they do not want to be that and succeed in changing their life into the life of a winner.

Maybe we all have to experience all situations in life which means that it is possible that you find yourself without money in the pocket on your birthday so you can not buy sweets for the guests that come to congratulate you or you find yourself with just enough money in your pocket to buy a bread or an ice and you decide to buy an ice and feel very wealthy that no one sees that you do not have any money left but were rich enough to buy an ice.

Lots of people have a huge feeling of guild. They feel guilty that they do not have a paid job and thus they are depending on others for their food and roof above the head. Feeling guilty is no helping emotion as it is connected to fear and this fear makes that one does not ask help at the right place or of the person that can help.

Asking for help is begging and is praying. Praying to God, Allah or whatever name the divine energy that is the loving soul has, is a good thing, but knowing that we all are children of this divine energy and that we live on Earth that is a physical energy and that we need physical help to come out of our misery, should give us the awareness that we are worth life and that we are worth to be helped. Not only by our family, friends or neighbours, but also by people we do not know, f.ex. those that stop for us when we hike at the side of the road to visit family or friends that we want to visit, although we do not have the money to pay for the trip.

Life is very boring if we do not take any risk and it is not possible to exclude all risks. Travelling hiking I experienced as a very nice way of travelling, if I forget all the hours that I was standing at the side of the road and got desperate because all the cars that passed, did not stop. After some time I had the experience that some car would stop. It might take 17 hours, but someone would offer me to get in and come with him or her or them in the right direction.

I even have the experience that people offered me to stay at their place over night, to eat pizza with them, meat fondue or mozzarella salad and continue my way the day after. It made me get aware that I was seen and that there are people that like to help me on my way. It was a way with a lot of time to think about life, about needs, expectations, worth and that time is still going on.

It also learned me that money is not always what one needs, although one sees having money as the solution of ones problems or as the key to make ones dreams come true. It is horrible not to have money, but it may also be a problem if one is hold by the police with money in the pocket and the police decides that they will only let you go if you give that money to them.

If one has the power to live without money because one knows one can live without having to eat, one will not feel guilty if one does not have a paid job but try to find out what is possible to do without money. Most luxury hotels may allow you to use their toilet and a nice chat with an unknown person in the street may give you more pleasure than a coin in your hand.

If one has nothing to eat, the physical body will change its system. It may be that one gets very angry at the beginning, which is good because all the anger that is in one’s system must get out to be able to live in peace.