Thread:Barnettiji/@comment-39402726-20190508182948

So I was contemplating the incredible lack of communication between human beings and between human beings and nature and whether it was the cause of a great deal of suffering and destruction yesterday morning... on a very deep, spiritual... international... save freaking humanity level... but got interrupted by an alarm telling me it was time for my haircut... I went to my salon and Maria, a very sweet Latina stylist asked me what I wanted- I told her and said "use a 3 on the sides" (which means use a #3 clippers- 0 is bald, 1 very very short etc.). Meanwhile a kid in his 20's with hair down his back... wreaking of pot... came in and sat in the next chair and told another stylist, Brenda to "do 3 on the sides and 2 on top"... I was surprised he was cutting it all off, but as it was none of my business... I went back to joking with Maria... then I heard a scream that shook me to my core... a scream of the ultimate suffering that was well depicted in "The Princess Bride" when the man with 6 fingers turned the torture device all the way up... followed by, omygodomygodomygodomygod WHAT HAVE YOU @!#$% DONE... repeated over and over again... it was like the "Silence of the Lambs" when Anthony Hopkins said, "you can still hear them screaming, can't you Clarise" ............ (all I could think was, make it stop... make it stop") So, for me, the moral of the story is, (1) yes, the lack of authentic communication in the world is a cause of great suffering on all levels- intimate relationships and international relationships and our relationship with nature and our environment... and (2) even if you are totally freaking stoned... or whatever the hell your state in each moment...you are still responsible to be sure to communicate exactly what you want done... with hair that took you years to grow... or anything else... or you...will...suffer🙏😲 