Can we stop the suicides in Bridgend? 2

18th Sep 2008

Hello lovely people

This is the case with the Bridgend suicides as well. Everyone is focused on the suicides, and no-one is looking for the births or people who recovered from serious illness in the same families that were affected by the suicides, that will balance out the loss.

What can we do about this, apart from reading the gory details in the media?

This same book, The Tipping Point describes the six degrees of separation. We can use this method to help the people of Bridgend without physically getting near the village.

The six degrees of separation is based on the premise that we are all bound up in an interlocking web. A man called Stanley Milgram did an experiment to prove this. He identified a group of people living in Nebraska, USA, and asked them to send a parcel to a man in Massachusetts on the other side of the USA, by means of a human network.

The people in Nebraska did not know each other or the recipient of the parcel. They had a destination address and their instruction was to find friends, relatives, old colleagues or anyone else the personally knew to send the parcel to until it reached the man in Massachusetts. The network of people also did not need to know one another. All they had to do was add their own addresses to the parcel on the way and find a next person of their acquaintance in this human chain to send the parcel to until it reached its destination.

In each instance the parcel was handled by a maximum of six people before it reached the man in Massachusetts.

We can use the six degrees of separation to send a letter of unconditional love to the people in Bridgend. Simply address the letter to The Mayor, Bridgend, Wales, UK. The mail system in the UK is excellent and the letter will reach its destination. We can forward this letter from one kindred spirit to the next until it reaches the families in Bridgend. Each person that forwards the letter simply adds his or her name (and address if you so wish, or at least the town and country where you live) to the letter. And if you want to, add a copy of this article as a means of explanation to the letter. Of course each one of us can simply send a letter straight to Bridgend, and that is better than doing nothing. However, I believe that the effect will be so much stronger when more people are involved and aware of what we do.

Will your letter make any difference to the population of Bridgend? Even if only one person realises that the world is actually full of love and that there is hope, it will make a difference. That person may reach out and ask for help, and then help others in a similar position, and the wave of positive change will have started.

If you read this and you do not live in the UK, I am sure you know someone who does live in the UK, or even someone who lives geographically closer to the UK than you do, who may know someone in the UK. And if you are willing to write such a letter from your heart stating your belief in unconditional love that will give someone else hope in this world, show me the person that will not feel the same and pass on the letter. What are you waiting for?

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Love and Light
Elsabe