For a Better World

And the blooming of Autism

“Time is the momentum of reality, being past and future only borrowed moments from one’s life” was the first thought that popped up in my mind when I woke up today.

If everything is energy, time is just an abstract concept, as it just exists for our own chronology, so we can label things in an easier way. Everyday we live a bit of our past as we live a bit of our own future. Everyday we use our past to build our present. But it’s our present that can make us go into a better future. No matter if our future is short or infinite. Death is death and I accept it as part of nature as I accept birth. Both are the same and have the same weight. Both are birth and death. Birth is no more than a result of a death on other universe, and death is just a result of a birth in other world. The universe of energy in which everything is recycled. Recycled, as creating new cycles of life.
Present. It seems a huge cliché if I write here that the present is just our first step into our future. But that is in what one should be focused, having the past as just lessons learned. Being Now the most important moment that should always remain our primary focus, as the step needed, with the learned lessons from the past to build a better future, with wiser steps, one by one and has a whole.
This chocolate cake with kaki is delicious by the way.

I’ve been dragging the whole weight of my past in my life. I should focus on what I learned from it and leave the rest on the side of my already stepped path. It’s obvious, but sometimes we’re so obsessed that we loose our sight, our focus on what matters. On what is really important to live. Obsession only brings errant thoughts and heavy energies of error and blurriness. Shall the past be healed then. Shall the now start and become a natural learning without anxiety or regret. Without fear or guilt. With focus on what matters in life.

I am a survivor and that makes me a warrior. As a warrior I shall have no fear or else I would lose my battles and finally my main war. Courage and hope are the strength one can count on. And no one would ever be able to destroy it in me. In any of us. Hope that we can be better humans and be able to honor ourselves, giving the same respect to anyone else. And that is recycling as we’ll reap what we sow. Being every step we make a seeding moment in one’s life. Being every harvest the best we got from our past. Being every seed made by our best focus and energy to get the best harvest in future. One should learn with nature as it flows in its journey. Accepting and letting it go. Feeding the best way. Seeding the best way we know. And for that we must be wiser and seek for knowledge. For our own existence. For the sake of life.

My now step is focusing on the present. My second focus is that the seed of now will bring a better near future. My third focus is that the collection of near futures will bring a wiser one for me. As we all should do. Be responsible and honored by our present in every single seed. In every single step we take in this moment of time. If I lost my concept of time – did I ever have? – I should use it to live the present moment rather then focusing on why and how I lost it or why I don’t have it. Living the now will bring the awareness of time. The now is our ultimate moment to make it worth of being part of history. Our own history of life that can influence others as others influenced us. Our now is an honor, thus, a responsibility and a celebration of life.

I do believe that even though the world seems to go through a catastrophic leadership with an incredible inertia from the people who gave power to the greedy ones, that a new generation is born to bring us a better future. We hear about the indigo children as we hear about the blooming of autism. Parents are freaking out due to their own lack of knowledge and the following of the rules imposed by society. I believe that this new generation of indigos and autistic ones will bring wisdom to the world. I believe that we somehow are special, and that we should focus on our best: the incredible sense of humanity we bring within us. Not having social empathy is just that: the incapacity to find logic this insane world. Our empathy goes on sensitivity, on human kindness. Our meltdowns are just this inability to not reach or understand the heaviness of the irrational behavior that became the “normal” in the world we live in. We, autistic and indigos, must not give up at any rate as we can be an example of much better and wiser beings. I request society to be aware of us, to let us be who we are in the best way we know how to be: ourselves. Without boundaries or any other preconceived rules or labels. We, you, are the ones who make this world, thus, the ones who can make it better: not judging or allowing pre conceived ideas to blur our minds. But to let us be. The way we are.

Some of us have being praising the moon, but we forget that the moonlight is just a reflection of the sun. Although, it’s the moon that brings us the wisdom as it reflects only the beauty and pure light. Not the excessive and explosive heat of the sun that burns and blinds. But the pure energy of light. If you put a light on your back when you look into the mirror, you’ll not see your reflection, just a silhouette of who you are. If you’re wiser and put the light in front of you, you’ll have a better guidance and reflection of who you really are. That light is the wisdom you must seek for. Be the sun and you’ll be able to see your own reflection in a greater way.

I want to go back here for the sake of awareness: we can go deeper as humans. We can be much better than we’re doing. We can save the world. And this is what I believe in. No matter if you’re an artist, writer, banker or lawyer. Put aside your preconceived ideas that are condemning you and the others and allow yourself to live. For the sake of life itself. Without fear or anxiety: be a warrior. Believe. Find yourself the courage to be you, the real and only you. Be the example you so many times tried to find in others. Make everything, give every step so you can be proud of whom you are and of every seed you throw for a better harvest. Seek for wisdom and share it. Be wise. Be yourself. And be proud to be. But be always humble to learn, as it’s the only intelligent path to take. Be a human of knowledge. And be always grateful for who you are.

We don’t need more gods. We need examples of life. We need to be ourselves.

And for that, we can only seek for wisdom.
To be better humans.

For a better world.

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Text and photographs by Gonzalo Bénard, visual artist and author of The Sacred Book of G. Purchase The Sacred Book of G directly from the publisher, Amazon, Barnes & Noble or WaterStones.