A wake up call

Published: Thu, 08/01/13

My Dearest ,

I'm writing to you on a windy and still afternoon from Puebla (Mexico), where I'm vacationing these days, and what a powerful week this has been. Today I just want to share a tiny glimpse into what's touching my heart this trip with the hopes of sparking flicker of gratitude for our often overlooked amazing lives.

A couple of days ago I was having lunch with my family in a restaurant on an open square downtown when a child (who couldn't have been older than seven) approached us to sell us some candy. Although this is unfortunately an event I've painfully experienced hundreds if not thousands of times throughout my life, somehow this time it was different.

It's not just that I've lived in one of the most beautiful cities of the US for over half my life where this is not part of our reality. It's not that I've not been to Mexico for a while. It's certainly not that I've forgotten because these things tend to stay with you forever. I think that the biggest difference this time was that next to this courageous, kind and earthy little face were the faces of my two sons who had never experienced this reality, and it really got me thinking.

Image Credit: Hideki Naito

I though about how unbelievably privileged my life is, and how things would have been remarkably different if I'd happened to have been born within a few blocks of distance from my home. I thought about that child's day to day experience, one where he has to work for food and where there's no time to be a child.

I also thought about the paralyzing pain I'd be in if I had to send my kids to the streets to help make ends meet.

My point is not to get you to feel pity for these children but to help remind you that no matter how messed up you think your life is today, how painful your last breakup was, how much financial pressure you're feeling, how big of an a-hole your boss might be, that millions of human beings would happily trade the best of their days for the crappiest of yours.

So I have no relationship video to share this week, I took a week off from that too, but I didn't want to let this week go by without sharing something that can put your search for love and your quest for creating an inspiring relationship a bit in perspective.

My invitation to you this week is to take a moment with me to jointly give heartfelt thanks for the unbelievably privileged lives that we get to experience and if you feel inclined to, to do something compassionate for someone today (in your own neighborhood) something that can perhaps help remind this person that someone who wants nothing in return, cares.

What do you say? Are you in? Thank you for opening your heart to this message and I promise you a really cool video on intimacy, men and love next week much in line with what you've come to like and expect from me.

Sending you all my love,

-Bern

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