It's oddly beautiful how when every day is a blessing, a birthday feels like any other day jam-packed with mysterious opportunities. The biggest, if not the only difference, is that people are abnormally joyful that you're alive.
Yesterday was my birthday. When I discovered I was granted a 24 hour voucher for a power to bestow a few seconds of joy onto anyone without even trying, I went around telling everyone I ran into that it was my birthday! It was mighty and silly magic!
Later though, when I was feeling tired, I started writing. And I hit a sensitive nerve. The words treaded confusingly over personal visions of our common grounds, trying to illustrate a frustration that transitively gets worse as I seem to get better.
I don't know how to share it. The frustrations. The problems. Or what I would intend on with that sharing. But what would it matter, anyways? Complaining would be like adding a bucket of water to the ocean.
Instead, what about the solutions? It seems like that's what people find the most scary! Because solutions pose the greatest threat; that we actually have to get up off our ass and go do something different.
And it's hard to do things differently. Sometimes it seems impossible. But... I assure you, impossible is just a lack of the imagination!
So I dedicate this drawing for all you radical lovers out there striving to do things differently. Who take within themselves the heavy truth that the future is determined by the actions of the present.
This drawing is for all who dare to reclaim their birthright of social, physical, emotional, and spiritual empowerment, so they may feel and know their hands effect our shared world.
This drawing is for all that have opened their eyes past the point of no return. Who now are bound by their hearts to live and fight for the equality of all beings.
This drawing is for you, so you never forget that when things start to feel impossible, there is always a place for you to turn for answers when all others have been exhausted. Your imagination.
Infinite gratitude, Eric