So I don’t agree in trophy hunting beautiful lions. I think it sucks on so many levels, BUT I also don’t agree with naming and shaming the hunter on social media. It’s so easy to make this man the scapegoat for all the ills in the world and lambaste him over and over. He killed a lion and that doesn’t feel good to me AND he is probably a really great guy in so many other ways. This is one small part of his life and how many of us can really look in the mirror without regrets of our own from our life in retrospect?
I certainly can’t. I have a bucket full of shame and that’s how I know that shaming is such a damaging energy for everyone; so destructive instead of constructive: so devisive instead of healing. Many moons ago I read a wonderful book by Pierre Pradervand called ‘The Gentle Art of Blessing’ and he articulates so beautifully the transformative possibilities that comes with blessing the hardest of moments or the most testing of relationships. Honestly I had forgotten a lot about this as the years have passed but right now this ‘Cecil vs Walter’ global hatred story has brought it all tumbling back. I don’t want to hate this man, it’s too easy and I really don’t think love erupts from hate very smoothly, so I’m going to bless him instead.
Bless him for his passions in life, bless him for his adventures. Bless him as he faces this maelstrom from the world. Xx