Messy Musings

I’ve started about 3 different posts which I immediately saved to drafts. Nothing seems to be flowing easily.

Maybe it’s from eating all that matzah? Maybe it’s exhaustion from the holiday and then all this overtime?

Maybe it’s just the fact some days, some weeks, writing is difficult, and that’s when you have to write all the more. That’s when you write “harder”.

I’m sure there’s a great metaphor or allegory I could utilise comparing physical exercise, strength building, or whatever to writing since both use muscles which need to be constantly trained, honed, shaped, etc. However, since I’m not an physically active person, I’m not sure where I would begin describing such an idea.

Let me say, then, what’s been on my mind recently in some messy conglomeration, which may or may not be expounded later on in a completed, independent post.

Just because you’re an INFJ does not automatically make you a doormat. INFJs are just as capable of standing up for themselves as any other type. We need to start empowering and equipping ourselves with the tools to do this healthily, effectively, and confidently. We don’t have to cower from conflict nor be stereotyped as wimps who can’t stand up for themselves. Then again, this should be done for all humans regardless of Myers-Briggs type.
I’m reading this book recommended by my rabbi about Kabbalah and cosmology, and it addresses the whole science vs. religion debate in the introductory chapters. Coincidentally, I recently watched the once forbidden DaVinci Code a couple of weeks ago for the first time and liked it so much I immediately watched the sequel, Angels and Demons, which also thematically emphasized the aforementioned. I just find it so intriguing there is a debate at all because to me Judaism allows a harmonious coexistence of the two, and this book I’m reading strongly implies the same.
Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and sometimes I cynically want to say, “But we’ve heard this before. It’s the same every year. Why to we have to remember so much pain?” Because there are still shootings at synagogues today — in the United States. First Pittsburg, now San Diego? What’s next? I dare not consider it. I also live in Kansas City were 5 years ago a white supremacist came and killed two at the Jewish Community Centre and then another person a retirement facility. The rise of antisemitism is real. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s not a fallacy. It’s a legitimate problem we need to address, and remembering the flames of not only the Holocaust which consumed the lives of 6 million Jews as well as 11 million other targeted people groups for ethnic cleansing, but also the fires of the pogroms, the inquisitions, the expulsions, which have haunted us for millennia, will help us overcome this poisonous cancer plaguing our lives. As we say every year during the Seder, “In each generation, our enemies have tried to exterminate us, but we have prevailed.” We must remember so it will never happen again. Never again.