Breaking Free From the Matrix: The Hindsight of 9/11

I remember that day as if it was yesterday, instead of 13 years ago.  I was four-months pregnant with my last child when I got the call that one of the Towers of the World Trade Center was hit. I immediately ran to turn on the TV, my stomach in knots. I saw the image of the left tower hit and then a plane hit the right tower as the reporter continued to give accounts and show the live footage. And then, all of a sudden, these massive towers collapsed one after the other. My mouth dropped in disbelieve; tears rolled down my eyes, and my belly started cramping up.

All I could think about was my family in New York, was everyone safe? Were people able to make it out alive? And then more news, the Pentagon was attacked, and another hijacked plane was heading to the White House but was heroically brought down in Pennsylvania by a “few good men”. What was our world coming to? Who would do this? We were told, terrorist from the Middle East. The reasons why really didn’t matter, all we knew is that the mighty United States was vulnerable. We were not safe and foreigners that looked, walked, or seemed Middle Eastern were responsible.

It made sense that the United States would go on lockdown, after that unspeakable tragedy. The creation and upgrade of Homeland Security was a necessity.  As was the right for all intelligence agencies to invade our privacy via internet, phone, cell phones, mail, etc. America was right to call for immediate retribution. It didn’t matter that a thorough investigation was not conducted, we wanted justice.  And it was alright to ostracize anyone who looked like the culprits. We were fearful and fighting for our lives. It wasn’t safe to fly any more not even in-country; it wasn’t safe to travel out of the country; our government couldn’t even protect itself, the Pentagon. We understood the need to tighten security at our borders to make sure the terrorist could not do a repeat attack.

Maintaining a Happy Place and Positive Outlook through the World Chaos

So much is happening all around us.  It may seem like change is never going to come.  This comes back to the blog I did about your vision, what you see "Without A Vision the People Perish".

Trying to maintain my happy place in the face of "bills due", "job or career search and bomb", and "plans not working out how you plan it" on top of the chaos of the economy and "bad news" reported on the media can lead you to second guess or question your place or mission on earth.

I'm glad to report I have learned the formula to maintaining my happy place so I'm not moved to fear, worry, stress, or anxiety. And I would like to share with you what works for me. Maybe it can help you or maybe not.

I've been taught "love begats love" and "what you fear the most can come upon you". What I had to learn is what this means on a practical level. The 12 Universal Laws helped me understand what this means, however I'm just going to concentrate on 3 of the 12 Universal laws. We all have a part to play in bringing our planet to a  happier and safer place.

Quick review of the Law of Action, the Laws of Cause and Effect, and the Law of Attraction.

Shareholders With No Ownership!! Why Own Stock and Have No Say In The Company?

Here’s a thought I've wanted to put out there to my co-humanoids and my wonderful ex co-workers of Walmart: You bought shares in the company you work for right? Most of us do it for profit or call it another way of saving money for Christmas or a rainy day.  Do you realize that as a shareholder/stockholder you own a portion of that company? Then tell me how is it possible that you as a shareholder/stockholder need permission to go to the stockholders meeting? Exactly what does holding stock in a company mean and what benefits do you get from it if they still can fire you?

These questions also goes for Utility companies that say become a member and own part of the company, however if you are late on your payment, they don’t want to know how they can help, they want to know when are you going to pay your bill otherwise they are shutting you down?  Does any of this make any since? You tell me this is partly my company yet you have the right to turn off my utility if I don’t pay? 

We have been bamboozled, hoodwinked, and deceived. About what? What it means to be a part owner of a company.  What it means to support a company that does not have your best interest in heart. First let me start by giving you the definition of a shareholder/stockholder.

Without A Vision The People Perish.... War or Peace, Your Choice

I've heard this scripture quoted many times in church. The explanation given was "prophetic vision".... Well prophetic vision or just plain vision, what it states is still true: without a vision the people perish.  

Do you know what it means to not have a vision? To not know where you want to go in life or what the future holds? Can you imagine what it would be like to not be able to think past today? Or even dream or have aspirations?

Yet this happens to us when we allow others to dictate our dreams, give us fear of the unknown, or make us believe the future is hopeless. Without a vision of what makes our hearts happy, we literally set ourselves up to perish.  

Why do people commit suicide? They lost their vision, their hope, their reasons.  We need to have a vision or a thought of our future, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" Heb 11:1. 

What is vision? " the act or power of anticipating that which will or many come to be". You don't have to be a prophet to have a vision.  This is part of our sovereign right...to dream dreams and see visions.  We've done this since our childhood, envisioned what our life would be like from day to day and when we were all grown up.  

Growing up I knew exactly what I wanted to be, I had a vision in my head.  I would be a teacher, I would marry for life, and have an even number of kids.  My life would be a happy one.  My husband would adore me and I would have enough money to live comfortably and enjoy the simple pleasures of life.

Quitting the Oppressive Plantation - Wal-Mart

So I finally did it!!! I quit Wal-Mart. And really I'm not knocking the fact that WalMart has helped me feed my children, put a roof over our heads, etc.  However, the work conditions there like so many other corporations is similar to that of a Plantation.

And they said slavery was dead!!! No it actually is not.  It just got a facelift.  Instead of working on the plantation you work in corporate america.  The slave-owner is your job whether it be Target, Wal-Mart, Chevron, Exxon, Apple, Ford Motors, AT&T, or Oprah Winfrey herself, etc. (for a complete list http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2013/full_list/) the point is, you will never own it, even when you buy stock, you have no say so, it's no different than the plantations of old.

The house-niggas are the management teams.  They have no mind of their own, they are just puppets.  And mind you I'm referring to the majority.  The ones who try to be fair or try to follow policy which are supposed to protect the people, are either ignored, dis-empowered, or made into field hands.  They give you a little more money than the field hands and you think you're make a difference.  But in essence what they did was give you hush money, see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil, especially when they crack the whip on the field hands back by demanding "work faster, work harder, same production level" even though they "hung" (fired) some folk for the same pay.

So why did I wait till now to finally say what was on my heart for the six years that I was there.  It's simple. FEAR. Worrying about whether I would get another job, be able to pay my bills, etc.  But isn't that just how the field hands felt? Fearful. You think the slave-owners felt that? Only if there was an uprising. But they had so many different tactics and ways to "keep you in your place".  Only they were allowed to enjoy the "fruits of your labor".

We just allowed FEAR, to keep us from following our dreams.  And once again I am only speaking to those who were like me who felt trapped.  "Leave master and you may get lynched or blackballed", you know what I mean.  So many of us regardless of the color of our skins played a role, some were Kunta Kinte, Kizzy, Chicken George, Binta, or Toby.  It didn't matter what plantation you went to they would still get you. Sure the higher you went up, the easier it seemed but it always comes at a price.  Maybe you have less of a social life or less family time, or you have to compromise your integrity.

Eventually, you take on the attitude, "if I can just make it till retirement" and by this time the best part of your life is gone.  And those of us who lost all zeal of life will declare like Celie "this life soon be over.... Heaven last always".