An African tribe does the most beautiful thing.
When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the center of town, and the entire tribe comes and surrounds him.
For two days they’ll tell the man every good thing he has ever done….
The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as Good, each of us desiring safety, love, peace, happiness.
But sometimes in the pursuit of those things people make mistakes. The community sees misdeeds as a cry for help.
They band together for the sake of their fellow man to hold him up, to reconnect him with his true Nature, to remind him who he really is, until he fully remembers the truth from which he’d temporarily been disconnected:
“I AM GOOD.”
This is a brilliant idea, in my opinion, if I can bring this In Canadian / Filipino culture. Maybe not, I think I will be the person in the middle.
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Hi again! Been so busy with family and community stuff recently that blogging has had to take a back-seat. So nice to catch up with what you’ve been doing. : )))x
That’s just a great idea! I wish I can do that around here too. Wonderful post, P! 🙂
Start jumping, Angie. 😛
I’m up for that, I’m a good jumper! 🙂
Beautiful post. I can’t imagine you ever being in the middle!
Hiya, I know that face. For the life of me, looong time no see.
Hi again! Been so busy with family and community stuff recently that blogging has had to take a back-seat. So nice to catch up with what you’ve been doing. : )))x
Sounds really good.
It does, but I can’t jump.
beautiful thought indeed.
I know that we are inherently good and then somewhere along the line, life happened. It’s good to have others to draw us back to be good.
I wish we could learn from this and do this in real life too.
We don’t have to be Africans to practise the culture of being good. We can still do it in real life.
I agree. Because of you, I will remember. Thank you.
Marvellous, this is true reconciliation; I love it!
It’s that simple!
We should all do that! 😛
Nice!
Thank you, Brett.
Isn’t this what we’re doing when we “like” each other’s updates on FB or twitter or Instagram or WordPress…
🙂
Ah, the “like” button. Yah, that is far easier than jumping in the middle.
Great post! I agree you , you would be in the middle most of the time 😀 😀 😀
Ey, be nice Angie. Got more cookies for me, I’m really good and deserve some cookies.