The question is not asked enough. What are we doing here? Why do we exist? As much as you hear this, we have reached an age of technological advancement with the capability of linking us in such a way, yet we have missed the point completely. Why?
We participate in this game of life, and we are naturally stuck in the middle of our fears, doubts, and insecurities. The moments we share are no longer genuinely shared because we look forward to the next moment that might peak our jaded approach, and surprise us with something different. We are lead to believe our only way of life is to go about it alone. Because of the fear, and the inner desires we carry can be selfish, and self-reliant. When is it going to be humanities turn to create the opportunity that exists to help one another? I for one am naturally capable of working with others for a common goal, It’s unfortunate I have no filters due to the exhausting efforts of my thoughts and insecurities built by this society that “I would have to go at things alone”. And like so many others who have asked for a helping hand, I would have only wanted to share the moments with others beside myself. I guess that is why I have a family. Like-minded or not, there exist an urge inside of me to share this world, I would like to live in a world without borders, similar to the world that doctors live in who risk their lives to treat those suffering from a deadly disease half way around the world. I feel they are the real super heroes of this planet, and may God bless them. Where would we be without those who carry PHD’s? Probably suffering or not even alive...
This planet is filled with lines drawn in the sand that changes with the moods, and seasons. I feel the pulse of the earth, and the energy of its negativity. It’s sad and frustrating to see the control over so many. You see it every day on social media. It’s as if you can sense when things are negative one moment with people expressing themselves in a less than desirable mood to read or see, and the next it’s positive with everyone participating in the vanity like a sixth sense. What’s really going on in the world when we allow images to control our way of communication? There is no communication and even worst miscommunication. Clearly we face a pandemic of epic proportion, we’re being dumbed and numbed. It’s drugs & work, have fun and serve... We find laughter in the punch lines, and loud noises, no longer amused in the stories we can tell of actual events one encounters when experiencing life. Regurgitating what we once read on a tabloid magazine, saw on televisions, or a movie to keep us fresh, relevant, and in fact.
What happens when the communication we use begins to fail because of the simplicity, and convenient way of life it creates for us. Life as we know it, will seize to exist. The world can be crumbling and we still wouldn’t give a shit, what matters to us is what we need to do to live. Need is our ultimate vice, and we will stop at nothing to pursue it. Providing shelter and our daily needs have become more important than to reach out to one another to help with even the smallest of things. People are more afraid then ever to know their neighbors because of the secrets that might entail with their ways of life. Lets get a grip. Everyone has a tick. We are capable of so much more than this cycle that keeps us on the marry go round. I for one am ready to vomit. We are a society that is selfish and self reliant to the point where we can reach out for what we need but forget to put back for what others at least want in return. I am a paid customer. It’s similar and as simple as the paper we use to write, we imagine what we take for granted grows out of thin air so we do as we please, when little do we know hundreds of acres of trees are chopped down everyday for the use of our convenience. People are enslaved to a currency that barely gets them by. That is if they are so lucky to receive the benefit of an income for their work, but allow me to retract, a great amount us know this, but choose to ignore it as a whole because we think to ourselves, what can one person do? Communication people it’s missing. What happens when we’re not conscience of the amount of waist that adds up everyday? We seize to exist. It must be true that we are a species that suffers amnesia every few short decades. Creating the same mistakes such as the unforgiving acts of war, living in a culture that discards everything, where we waste like we have another planet to go to after we have greedily used up this one’s resources. It is known that the Romans, Greeks, even the Mayan’s lived as we did, and died because of the same mistakes. Round and round we go…
Little is discussed on personal levels in which we can all communicate clearly, and bring this to our attention as problems society has to face one day. What other options do we have when the inevitable panic is displayed the same way every time, with sheer terror and distress. There are more important things at hand in the world that are not comprehendible to the human attention span to matter. They say live and let live, but I say we mustn’t, for our very future depends on all of us to take responsibility for each other. Too many suffer from the lack of something. Dare I say Love...? What is love? I can describe in the sense you are used to hearing, and can understand. It is my son, it is my wife, and it is above all God who gives us the breath, which everyone of us is capable of taking advantage of everyday by breathing lies and deceit and not breathing out positivity and goodness. Who isn’t guilty of such acts besides those of true integrity and noble cause? What culture is it that we live in when competition means there can only be one? How about the many? We are all winning in my book because we are here for a reason, and the sooner we realize this, the better off we will be as a species.
“You have to make the changes within yourself first” has been an issue for me because what if the one in question is too weak to make the necessary changes on their own. What if it was just as important to you to do right by others as you do for yourself, but because of the unnecessary opinions we are held back. The ridicule can weigh a ton, for what? A slice all our own because a society built on loneliness tells us it has to be this way for the sake of the loneliness that may or may not exist at the top. I enjoy my alone time just as much as the next person, but why couldn’t we share ideas of living in harmony with one another and notice the small things about each other and find the common ground of our needs as humans, finding the silver lining.
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