“Just Arrived” as a Gaianet Member

It feels like I’ve come a long way before getting here. It also feels like this is just the start of a long journey. I guess that’s how it feels to be at the door of a New Earth.

I remember, as a child, believing that the world was “normal”. I thought the world was like the stories I used to read — there were the bad guys, and the nice guys, many adventures, and then a happy ending. Therefore, whenever I learned that something bad had happened somewhere in the world, I would think, “Oh well, the good guys will go and fix it, and in the end, there will be justice.”

And then I grew up and life started to ask me to do adult things, like having a job, paying taxes, buying a house. Adult things like watching the news and learning that the world wasn’t as simples as I thought it was. Adult things like defending myself from people with ill intentions, and in the process perhaps having to be a little less nice than I wish I could be. A little less trusting. A little less giving.

I’m a fighter, and an optimist. I took the challenges that life threw at me and did my best to process them, so I could keep improving myself. I wanted to do my best for the common good. I think I still believed in that happy ending.

I kept hoping that the bad actors would start changing. I thought the truth would become too obvious to be denied, and that at some point the regulators would intervene — effectively, that is. I hoped that there was more good than bad in the world, and that light would prevail. But at some point, I started to wonder if there was any hope at all.

These last few years… they were tough. I learned that our ecosystem is at much more serious risk than I thought, and with it our future. I realized, for the first time, that we are indeed at risk of missing our window to reverse the damages we inflicted. I saw how humans, this race full of love, kindness, incredible ideas and resilience… I saw how they can also be ruled by money and ego. Sometimes, I felt overwhelmed with sadness. And it absolutely broke my heart to see our children having to step up and cry for help.

Recently, I had started to think, “someone must do something”, “what can I do?”, “who can I join?”. I wasn’t going to let things end without a fight. It was in this midst of being lost and trying to find myself that I came across Gaianet.

I know I’ve just arrived, but I feel, again, hopeful. Around me, I see other wondering souls who arrived around the same time, eager to get started, happy to have joined. I see those who’ve been here longer, happy to welcome us, their hearts open and willing to teach, and wanting to learn. I am told this is my new family, and that together we are the reset generation. That we are building the roots of the New Earth.

I know I’ve just arrived but I feel, again, that I can be at peace. Whether it’s in a Monthly Family Gathering, or in the Sister Temple, or simply in a one-to-one conversation with another New Earth Citizen, I always walk away lifted and inspired.

I know I have just arrived, but I feel relieved and keen to take action — and what a joy it is to be the bearer of good news, and to be able to lend my words to Gaianet’s voice.

And thus, I invite you to join me, curious reader, wherever you are in the world and in life. I encourage you to follow our news from now on, and also to take part in this collective expression of love in action, by commenting or responding whenever there is something that you are inspired to share.

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Until we meet again

Liliana

16 Mar. 22

Personal StoriesAlexander KeehnenMarch 28, 2022New Earth, Gaianet member storiesComment