Rewriting the narrative of one's life and maybe the World

When looking at the news, talking to our friends or even examining our own lives we find and see places of trauma, physical, mental and emotional pain and victims.  The projection in the news makes us often feel that that the World is a bad place with bad people.  But all things have a beginning which goes back to each and every single individual.  What is it inside of each of us that that needs to be addressed.

I believe that whatever is begin observed at the larger scale (news) has its microscopic companion within our heart and thoughts.  Consequently, a large portion of the human race feels as if they live a lonely, unloved and unfilled existence every day.  The individual does not feel a sense of purpose and they wander the earth suppressing that very powerful feeling.  Unfortunately, the voice inside of the head, known as the ego will tell us this story every day trapping us in an endless loop and we are hoping that someone or something (money, a new car, fame or a good job) will change this story.  The bad news is that no one or nothing is going to change this story.

The story in the head is changed by the storyteller through rewriting one's narrative about the life that you live.   The narrative is changed through forgiveness, kindness to yourself and love.  The narrative is changed from what "I" need to what gifts I have to offer to others.  The narrative changes from being lonely and not understood to being connected to life, people and God.  The narrative moves from gloom of the past, to the hope that you can contribute however and whenever called upon.  Your job is to find the buried treasures within yourself, developed them to their potential and share them.

This does not mean that if you have hurt from the past that you should not seek help in addressing those issues.  You must do that.  But eventually you will ask yourself now what?   That is the time to begin writing the new script by you the famous author....

The doom and gloom of the daily news will slowly have less of an impact on all of us as we rewrite our story and eventually if we all feel better ourselves.  Eventually the news will have no choice but to change to positive stories because that will be the reality that we have created.

Yes, we will still have poverty, world hunger, disease, climate change but we will also rewrite the narrative on those issues.

Ebola outbreak raged out of control during the last 10 days --3600 new cases

Over the past 8 weeks, the number of suspected Ebola cases has been steadily rising, especially in Sierra Leone and Liberia, with more than 8000 cases being suspected on October 1st.  

Weekly Suspected cases in the three countries (source: WHO)

However, during the past week, the number of reported (suspected) Ebola cases significantly increased by more than 3600 cases between October 22 and October 31 based on WHO data.
Weekly data shows while the number of new cases are increasing in Guinea, it cannot be compared to what is happening in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Number of suspected Ebola Cases in Guinea (Source:WHO)

Number of suspected Ebola Cases in Liberia (Source: WHO)

Number of suspected Ebola Cases in Sierra Leone (Source: WHO)

The large increases in Ebola cases have occurred in both Sierra Leone and Liberia over the last 10 days.  Either this is due to better reporting or higher infection rates.  Either way this is a very big change and we should all be worried about what is happening in both countries.  This is a humanitarian crisis and likely to destabilize both countries and the region in general.   

Number of new suspected cases versus the prior week for all three countries (Source: WHO)

Based on the data, there have been 300-500 new cases in Sierra Leone and Liberia since October 1st.  However last week the number of new suspected cases jumped from 376 in the prior week to 1870 on October 31st in Liberia .

Total # of new cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone relative to the prior week (Source: WHO)

The new cases jumped from 454 to 1632 new cases in Sierra Leone.  This two countries are responsible for the tripling of cases between October 22 to October 31.  The World needs to really come together to address this situation immediately.  So many families are being destroyed, so many young people will become orphans and so many people are at risk.  The time to act is NOW!!