14/10/2025
It’s important.
It’s so important to realize when this happens — not just to us, but also to the people around us.
To really see it.
To recognize this phenomenon that moves from the small to the large, and from the large back to the small — like a living current.
It’s like a plague, a kind of contagious illness that seeps quietly into our minds.
And suddenly, we don’t quite know what’s going on anymore.
We start behaving like someone else, reacting in ways that don’t feel like us, and we can’t understand what’s gotten into us.
I’m talking about how thoughts and emotions get passed from one person to another.
Especially the heavy ones — anger, hatred, fear, anxiety, despair.
Within a group, within a community — or even across an entire society — the power of the mind is enormous.
It influences everyone.
It takes only a few people to start speaking about something negative — especially something charged with fear or hatred — and then a few others to join in.
Maybe someone more charismatic, and others tend to follow.
And before long, almost everyone — even those who usually keep to themselves or seem happy — starts swimming in the same dark waters: gossip, anger, resentment, dissatisfaction.
Ah, dissatisfaction…
That one spreads like a seasonal flu.
Before you know it, everyone’s caught it.
Some people even become angrier, more destructive — and self-destructive — than the ones who started it.
It’s like a snowball rolling downhill, gathering more and more weight, more and more speed.
You know what I mean, right?
You’ve seen it too.
But noticing it is no longer enough.
Now we need to stay awake.
To sharpen our senses.
To be present inside ourselves.
To watch our thoughts, our emotions, our reactions, our actions.
To stay aware — of who we are, and of what’s happening around us.
It’s so important to cultivate a state of presence — a consciousness that’s as little affected as possible by the noise of the collective mind.
For me, this feels like one of the most essential things we can do:
To cleanse our thoughts and our spirit every single day, each in our own way.
And if we don’t yet know how — we can ask. :)
The good news is that this contagious “illness” works both ways.
Positive thoughts, kindness, peace — they spread too.
It might take a little longer, a little more patience, but they’re just as infectious.
So, remember — and ask yourself often:
Which wolf am I feeding — the white one or the black one?
Each of us has the power to stop the snowball right where it reaches us.
May clarity and awakened consciousness be with all of us.
Take good care of yourselves — and of one another.
