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I think Google has me confused with someone else.
I recently clicked on the link to an interesting looking retreat somewhere in Mexico, I think it was, that someone I follow shared in an email.
When I clicked on the price it came up in Swedish kronors. And it was a lot. Of kronors, that is. Maybe dollars, too, but I didn't go looking for the exchange rate.
The thing is, Google keeps showing me Swedish stuff.
I've recently had to select "translate to English" at the top of several websites, and I've had to sort through search results that came up in Swedish.
I sure thought Google knew me better than this. I mean, Is everything alright at home, Google?
To be fair, I did look at clogs online recently, but come on, that can't be it.
We're disconnecting ourselves
So maybe Google isn't that great a listener after all?
OR–of course—there's a wonky setting somewhere in my computer that's gotten switched on... or off... or something.
I'm sure I'll figure it out.
But Google's shenanigans have made me realize how easy it is to feel disconnected, misunderstood, and even a little isolated by just the computer.
Not even a human.
Yet we humans do this stuff to each other pretty easily without Google's help.
...And isolating ourselves
I feel like it's more important than ever in these jarring, shifting times that we listen to one another.
We're experiencing artificial isolation as well as real isolation. We're frustrated trying to get a human on the phone or a sales person who's not just a warm body. We're inundated with robots and with cameras watching our every move. And we're increasingly isolated from each other.
We're simply craving human to human contact.
But instead of that, we're displaying unfathomable inhumanity toward one another on a large scale in more than one place in the world right now.
And at the very same time, while watching horrors in other places, we're also incredibly mean to each other over crap like politics. We're isolating ourselves and others. We're not trying to understand each other. We're not connecting.
Yet we have within our reach endless opportunities to listen on a human to human level rather than take sides based on someone's yard signs and bumper stickers and social media posts.
But small shifts
The energy around the globe is stirring. Massive changes are happening, both physically and metaphysically.
The US is weeks away from possibly our most contentious election yet, where each "side" is certain the other "side" is batshit crazy.
At the same time more and more people are opening their minds to the possibility of a shift in consciousness, leading to what Eckhart Tolle calls "a new earth."
But shifting consciousness doesn't mean we turn our back on people. I think it's the opposite, in fact.
Humans just plain need each other.
Someone to help, someone to listen, someone to treat you like a human and not an opinion, someone to laugh with, someone to smile at, someone to hold the door for, someone to sit next to on a sunny day downtown, someone to hug, someone to hug you, all regardless of who's right about what.
...Lead to big shifts
It's one thing for Google to forget who I am, and it's likely just a silly glitch I can fix anyway.
It's another thing, though, for us to forget each other on a human to human level.
"Us and them" clearly doesn't work on a grand scale. We're seeing that plainly and painfully.
"Us and them" also doesn't work from in front of the TV while "we" blame "them," whoever the "them" is at the time. It doesn't work while listening to NPR any better than it does while watching Fox News. It doesn't work while typing and griping about "them" on Facebook or Twitter or where-the-hell-ever.
"Us and them" is nothing but a pissing match. It doesn't even make for good sport. No one ever truly wins.
We're one human family. We're one consciousness. We're all in this together, opinions and everything.
We gotta figure this out.
And we can if we want to.
Small shifts lead to giant shifts, and inner peace leads to outer peace.
Stay shiny, my friend
I'm honored to talk to have you on the other side of the screen today.
I have so much love and appreciation for you,
Coco
P.S. Here are the clogs I was looking at. (I love the red!) But apparently they're Polish, not Swedish, so Google really is confused, hahaha.
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