What if we all have our turn as a Palestinian Mother?
What if we all have our turn as a Palestinian mother?
What if, in the infinite time of experience, we spend one of our lifetimes suffering her reality?
What if we all have our turn as an Israeli teenager, forced to watch our peers eat grass as they starve on the other side of the fence?
What if we all have our turn as a migrant father at the southern U.S. border desperate to get our family to safety?
What if we all have our turn as an indigenous human in 1824 forced to slaughter by white colonizers?
What if we all have our turn as a new black mother being torn away from our baby to nurse the babies of our white slave owners?
What if we all have our turn being a black boy in a hoodie shot and killed with nothing in our hands but a package of Skittles?
What if we all have our turn as a ten-year-old child raped and forced to give birth?
What if we all have our turn as our children in kindergarten learning where to hide if a gun is fired in the cafeteria?
What if we all have our turn as a lesbian, bisexual, trans, or gay kid sitting in a church pew listening to the people we love hate us because their god does?
What if we all have our turn as a Trump supporter?
What if we all have our turn being Donald Trump?
What if we all have our turn living as our worst enemy?
What if we all have our turn as a coal worker in Appalachia watching our job disappear while already living in poverty?
What if we all have our turn as a man raised in a patriarchal religion learning since childhood that he is superior?
What if we all have our turn as a woman raised in a patriarchal religion learning since childhood that she is inferior?
What if we all have our turn as a homeless veteran abandoned by the country we would’ve died for?
What if we all have our turn as an elderly woman being sexually abused in a state-funded nursing home?
What if we all have our turn trying to survive this world disabled?
What if we all have our turn as a billionaire enjoying our lavish wealth earned by exploiting people and resources while ignoring the world on fire outside of our castle?
What if we all have our turn as beef cattle living to die on a factory farm?
What if we all have our turn as a daddy long-legged spider having our legs ripped off one-by-one so a child can giggle at them moving around without a body?
What if you have your turn living as me?
What if I have my turn living as you?
What if we spend eternity living lifetime after lifetime as every other human and creature that exists?
What if we dared to imagine an afterlife such as this, continuously incarnating again and again until we learn the spiritual lessons we need to learn?
Would it change our actions if we knew this to be our fate?
Because it may just be,
exactly what is happening.
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