Oh, hello, hello, and welcome to the Borealis

experience. I'm your host Aurora, and I'm very happy to be

spending some time with you today.

Today I want to talk about discrimination.

Discrimination is a huge thing right now in our society.

And, as you know, all too well, I'm all about

creating a space where you feel safe, where you feel understood

where you feel, you can recharge your batteries, where we learn

from each other, where we support each other. And

here, we do not care where you are coming from, I have a

project going on here in the future, where I will be

interviewing ex convicts.

And this work is very important to me, because I want to cut

through prejudice, I want to help people understand that we

all deserve second chances, we need to trust our government,

that when people are being released back into society, that

they are deserving of a second chance. And all those shaming

and guilt tripping is not going to get us anywhere. That person

that gets out of jail, and is trying to make a life for

himself or herself again, after traumatizing experiences that

they might have induced, but also that they have suffered

from deserves respect, and deserves an honest second

chance. And what do I mean by that is that we encounter people

with an open heart with an open mind. And that we can see the

true potential that we all carry inside of ourselves. And trust

me, the people that went through hell, that had to rebuild

themselves, they, most of the time are the biggest servants,

the biggest and most impactful people in our society for the

better.

And nowadays, everybody has an opinion, it is so easy on

Facebook to Yeah, start discussions and discussions,

jump in on discussions and have a strong opinion. And some

conversations slide into very radical speech, if not to say

hate speech. And it is very sad for me to observe because I know

these people, if standing in front of each other would never

talk the same teacher, then how they do when they are on

Facebook.

It is really important that we start

asking more questions, when there's something that we don't

understand, you know, people.

Like there's less and less space, there's more and more

people and people are crammed into spaces with very different

beliefs with depth, very different views on life. And

it's not going to change in the near future, it's going to get

more and more. And how can we manage to not get lost? How can

we manage to not destroy each other? How can we manage to

approach each other? With more understanding? I think the only

way is to ask questions.

If there's somebody with a complete different view than me,

I asked questions I want to understand Wait, where are you

coming from? What what happened to you that you think that way,

and that you behave that way nowadays, I want to understand I

want to have compassion with you. I want to really being able

to relate for with you and maybe even learn from you.

And then go from there. And if you don't understand if that

person doesn't want to open up to you if they are becoming

offensive or defensive or whatever it is then move on. But

don't make it about yourself. I feel this is what we need more

of we need more understanding. Because we all have our stories.

We all have our backgrounds. We all have our grounds. But we are

being forced to live together and it's a beautiful thing

because we need each other and I think that's what people

People keep forgetting when they engage in these hateful speeches

on Facebook is that they forget that we need each other. Every

person, if you want it or not, is a resource can be a resource

for love, a resource for friendship and the resource to

learn something about life.

Think about the food you eat on a daily basis, think about the

water as you drink. If it wasn't for other people

working so hard.

You wouldn't have all these things on your table. And we can

go further and talk about your telephone and talk about

everything that we consume on a daily basis. It is because of a

common effort. And do you really care that much of what the what

the reasons are, why certain people behave one way and others

in a different way? I think we don't, we don't care enough, we

just see that a person is not thinking the same way not acting

the same way. And just just why that is an offence, and that

person has to be removed from society. I don't think that's

okay. I think that will create lots of unhappiness and hatred

and disasters and families, recent traveled like incredible

what's going on right now, it's hard to put into words.

But the only thing I want to say today is that we need each

other, we need to come together with a better understanding of

each other. And then we can move from there. Hate speech is for

people that have nothing better to do that want friction,

because otherwise, they feel useless and lonely.

It is not getting us anywhere. And I'm so grateful to know that

the people in my life closest in my life. And my listeners are

very open minded and are very curious. And if they are not,

they are sticking to this show, and wanting to become more

curious and open minded and open hearted. Because in the past,

they've learned that a shutdown hard shutdown mind, brought them

nowhere.

It made them lonely and made them miserable made them create

fights and separation with people that they actually miss

now and need in their life. And it is just very unnecessary

friction that is out there right now. And I'm trying to make

sense of it. I'm trying to understand what this is all

about. I have no idea. But all I know is that we have to focus on

keeping an open heart, we have to focus on being love driven

and not fear driven. And that means in turn, that we need to

ask more questions. Maybe some of you remember my interview,

where we talk about racism, and that the person

said, he encounters racism with curiosity, he starts a

conversation when he feels that there is a racist vibe in

someone and he wants to make sense of it and then love the

shit out of the person.

And make them understand that we're all made of the same would

we have to learn to trust each other again, we have to learn

that there is more ways than just one way to skin the cat. I

really don't like that expression. But I think that's

how you say it. We have to invite different views to the

table and this is going to make a very complex and very rich

life and planet. If we start to discriminate, start to

to cancel people out. It is not going to get us anywhere because

we are hurting ourselves deep inside when we're trying to

eliminate a person that we think is living outside of us but we

are really all connected and we can keep treating each other

that way.

Thank you so much for listening to the Borealis experience if

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I just want to go for coffee with you and have a real

conversation with you. But maybe it's possible one day soon when

all this craziness is over. Thank you for being here. I

appreciate you so much. I have such deep respect for you

because I know my content you can be very true triggering and

challenging at times. But if you stick to my content, I know that

you have a growth minded heart

and a big heart. And yeah, I just wanted to express that.

Have a wonderful rest of your day, and then we'll be out there

very soon again. Bye bye.