Sober Thoughts

To heal as a species...
It isn't only inside out,
But also outside in.

Awareness within self,
and within community.
More importantly,
within the whole of humanity.
For it isn't enough to break familial cycles,
we must be willing to dismantle the systems
that perpetuate the harm...
As they are the root to set cycles...
Those that we call generational.

If not,
we will forever be in a loop...
immortalizing the traumas...
Not only within our lineage,
but within our species.
Regurgitating them,
while also imposing on to others.

As we have only ever put a bandaid over the problem,
rather than ever taking the time to assess and treat its cause.
Believing that healing generationally is individualistic in nature,
linear in its relation to family ties...
When in actuality it requires a collective awakening,
one done with the unity of all,
such that we hold a mirror not only to ourselves,
but to the systems that propagated the shadows.

To which...
I believe.
It's time.
For we cannot heal in systems,
that make us sick.

---

KEEP READING