MEMO: TO GOD
From: Alexandra Shaw
Date: 8-28-1998
Dear God:
RE: Blame, Shame and Other Manipulative Poop/B.S./etc.
It is time for me to speak out. I have to tell you I am constantly amazed at people and their weird ways. As much as I possibly can I try to live my life pretty much in a "live and let live" state of mind. I simply do not care how people run their lives. That is their deal, not mine. If they want to use and abuse each other with all of the game playing manipulative b.s., so be it. (For those of you that feel faint at this point, you might want to leave now. I feel it getting deeper before it is over/ Armageddon/ the End of the World/ Infinity, etc.).
My heart goes out to the little lamb, the gentle soul that is also known on this planet as the loser. I am not talking about the loser that never tries. I am talking about the other kind. Those that are so sensitive, generous, and forgiving that they always end up being manipulated by the others. It's not that they sometimes don't notice that others rip them off, I know they do. It would seem to me that at some point in time, they would get it! Don't you foresee them getting it? Are they always going to allow others to assign blame to them, then feel the shame and the pain that immediately follows that blame/shame game being played on them? Are the users of humanity always going to win? I am getting so tired of seeing the imbalance of the games here.
As I see it there are two categories here on Earth. The Users (those that are user-friendly to everyone they can take advantage of) and the Losers (those that are taken advantage of as they are being blamed, criticized, shamed, insulted, demeaned, and basically left by the side of the road of life either emotionally or spiritually dead). There are all sorts of names for these people. Abuser and the Abusee, the Just and the Unjust, the Shamed and the Shameless, and all manners of other appropriate terms come to mind. I am sure there are no surprises here for you God. Probably it's only me firing up through my naivete but is this ever going to stop, I mean short of the end of all Time taking place? Will it take the end of the World, as we know it to stop the pain? I know that is what Revelations tells me, but I was hoping people would get it before You blow them away.
I really am raging today and I don't know anyone else that might care to listen to me go on and on… I am hoping you don't mind too much. It is stressing me to the max at the moment.
As I am sure you well know I have tried to convey Your Wisdom, as I feel you left it, in a pretty much spiritually inspired, yet scripturally intact Bible that still outsells any other book on this planet year after year. Good show God! With some you are still fashionable. I am so glad for that.
My problem is why do people allow themselves to be hurt? Don't they see what it is doing to their lives long term? Don't they see that by giving in over and over they actually are allowing themselves to become doormats for the others? I read the part that says "turn the other cheek" and I agree totally with the forgiveness part to basically allow oneself to come up to a higher level, past all of that low-life, back-biting, payback, mind game mentality. You are "right on" on that part God. I couldn't agree with you more.