I have spent the best part of the last 4 year’s being angry. It’s time to get it out and be real about that. I don’t need to get into detail about why so much because it isn’t just me. I don’t know if you’re awake but everyone has been feeling it. let’s face it. New Zealand, underneath it’s well renound hospitality has always had an element of pent up annoyance just under the surface. I put this down to mostly government involvement in people’s lives where it doesn’t belong. It’s over reach into all aspects of our everyday lives. The last straw for me came when I couldn’t sit in a cafe or go to a movie because of my vaccination status as well as the unsupportive comments from people who complied and then we’re willing to take a stance against my family for our decision. I’ve seen many regrets from the pro vaccine team since, through injuries, feelings of betrayal and lack of concern by health officials and they have felt un listened too. Through the time of mandates there has been an increase in people deciding not to vaccinate due to either harm, government bullying or just a growing distrust about those in power and it’s not just them. For me it’s also been distrust of people in businesses, who stood with the government to mandate people, their staff and customers alike.
Now the government has backed away from taking ownership of business mandates, saying it was businesses that chose to do the mandating. So I think this election will be very unique and telling about how much people are sick of the lies that come out of political mouths. Many I have spoken too no longer know how to vote this election because frankly it feels like they are just fronts for some global agenda anyway. But that’s not the worst thing. It’s that we have become such a divided Nation and I don’t know if we will ever be able to trust our fellow countryman like we used too. even churches were not immune from taking a stand against its own members and drawing a vaccine line in the sand. Even there you will find distrust and disunity. Their is also now a sense that being a heterosexual in the world is abnormal and perverts and social deviance have convinced our children to mutilate their own bodies because God made a mistake and gave them the wrong one for how they feel about themselves, at an age where it’s perfectly normal to go through a period of gender confusion. In a nutshell the world feels so much sicker than it has ever been before. But the sad reality is that it probably isn’t. A lot of this stuff has always been there and likely always will be and the one way people have been able to overcome the opposition to a normal healthy life has been to keep caring about each other and to have compassion for one another.
But I fear this is beginning to slip away from us and we’re getting hardened by a reluctance to forgive. I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t want to go through life being angry all the time and I don’t want my happiness to be based on how others behave. I want to see the good in people again. Maybe I’m naive but I believe NZ can do better and learn to except each other again and be the sources of power for good like we used to be and became a light to the world. We can’t Force people to change only we can change ourselves and hope for others to desire to be lead into a better place. You can’t mandate people to love others. It’s not how love works. Love has to be a free will choice. I hope as a people, we can be different to what we have become and encourage the peacekeepers amongst us who have already embraced the heart of love and forgiveness. if not then we will always end up as in the past , on the steps of war and death and our anger will lead us there. War is absolute madness. It’s the place you go too when you have lost all hope of reason and it’s the place where our children and babies are sacrificed on alters of revenge and the chance to avoid it is by choosing to forgive the past and work towards a better time. I hope this election, we make a stand and choose people who are wanting to encourage a return to good social cohesion and a moral compass. but failing that I hope kiwis can act their way into a better future for themselves regardless of what idiots end up in power. Perhaps we can help each other out of anger and resentment and into kindness. but not the kind that has an agenda. The kind that asks for nothing in return except the same.