Conversations With God-Fearing People
Just walked out to my gate to open it up and my neighbor told me, “I see you wearing devil signs and I pray for you. I see you doing crazy things at night and I pray for you. Your soul needs to be cleansed.” I looked my neighbors way for a second and said, “I see you back out of your driveway without looking and I cast spells for you that you may never hurt anyone. You haven’t truly found yourself in your religion, so you are criticizing mine and I pray you find peace.” My neighbor then tells me, “Don’t do any devil worship on me. I don’t need your kind of prayer.” To which I replied, “likewise, I keep my eyes in my own yard, and my mind on my own business. I am happy and fulfilled in my religion so I don’t need to cast my gaze to other yards hoping for a distraction. I’ll pray you think about that.” I turned around and went back to my home hoping that I really had given my neighbor something to think about. When we are not happy and fulfilled in our lives, we go looking for something to distract us from the loss of direction we feel. Sometimes, we decide projection is the best form of medicine. So we push out all of our anger, negativity, self-doubt and frustration on to other people. After this encounter, I started thinking about bullies, religious imposers, and other people in this world who just have not found peace and I say some words for them that they may find their hearts’ true home. I once told my brother after getting into a nasty argument with my father, that he was on my case for no reason and I was going through shit. This himbo of a boy, who really up until this point had been just a child to me looked at me and said, “He’s going through shit too, we all are.” Ever since this conversation I’ve tried to remember that. We all have our own struggles whether they are visible or deep within, but it’s how we treat others who are in their own struggles that matters. By helping them, we help ourselves, so though it was slightly unpleasant, I really hope I gave my neighbor a new look at my situation, and sparked him to find out where his situation might not be as satisfactory. -Spin-