Rededicating ourselves to hope
Sometimes we don't have hope that we're trying to look for it. And this gives me hope in saying, what should we be focusing on? Do we fall by the wayside and become cynical and disillusioned, or to become strengthened by rededicating ourselves to high ideals? I found this to be something to think on and reflect on. What do you think
But then there's a part of us that empathizes with, I guess, this human experience in saying that it's really difficult to do this when we really think about it, because in the midst of the, quote, unquote crises, there's a bunch of information that's being told to us that helps us figure out what's important and what's not
And not only death rituals, but this piece of what we see in probably Chinese rituals, ancestors worship. We can find that in even our other, more ancestral religious spaces. And those are two things. I think in one aspect we do need a time to mourn and to not run away from it, but to sit with it and then in sitting with it it's and moving on and trying to move slowly towards it. But then from the ancestor piece, remember it
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
And they were trying to help her, but she was just going through this journey of trying to figure out herself and what was happening. But it's so beautiful how our family was so supportive. But yeah, as you're talking, that's all we kept thinking about. Like we just saw this movie and the whole movie is like playing in our mind as you're talking. It's like, man, it's so dope. But yes, we agree and thank you
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:13
Hey Rafael, this is so beautiful and never enough reminder for all of us to mindfully rededicate when things are throwing us off. And it reminds me just of the concept in Judaism of Sadaka when you give charity at any point in your life to remind yourself that you can be of service so that you're not taken over even when you're in depleted times and feel like people need to give to you