First thing first, a very happy, healthy, and prosperous Lunar New Year to all who celebrate!
It’s warm today, very warm for February, and I didn’t think I’d be staying for long here today, my brain is far too swampy with far too many horrible things.
Guess I proved myself wrong.
Here in the US it’s Presidents’ Day and I am mired in what we had, what we lost, what people are determined to violently rip away, so much so that a post about it isn’t going to do any of us any good.
We know.
We all know.
I do think it’s a good day to think about what we want and how we can go about getting it, though. To think about how all of us, every one of us, just people scattered throughout the country; throughout the hemisphere; throughout the world; all of us are simply people.
Just people.
And what we want, what serves us, as people, does not necessarily align with what those men who would spill our blood for their desires want.
You see, when I sit here and I see people reading from all corners of the globe, I don’t envision flags or slogans.
I imagine people, in homes that are the same and different than mine, sipping a beverage that may be coffee (it’s largely coffee) but could be anything else. Even people who stumble here through some kind of animosity or wish to harm, I see them too, emotions and mood manipulated by people who count them merely as units, replaceable, irrelevant.
I know the world we sit in is a powder keg, one that feels like it could blow at any moment, people already posturing to take sides.
But if you think about it, what good does that do us? Us? We people, on different sides of a screen, who only want a bit of peace and a bit of joy.
Why is that such a difficult thing to cultivate in life? Why are there people who work so hard to prevent it, to stoke division, hatred, abuse, cruelty?
Is it really about the profit?
What is the point of a soul if the only good in the world is profit?
I don’t know, I’m only trying to make sense of a world that is increasingly nonsensical to the benefit of the very few.
I’m not saying the world has ever been just. What I’m saying is why don’t we all, all of us, everywhere, set our sights on creating such a place? If they can make one steeped in evil, can’t we make one steeped in good?
I told you.
Swampy thoughts.
Have a great Monday.
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