As a writer and a musician I have glimpsed the world around me and all the rosy shades available cannot disguise the truth.
It's true that there is so much beauty available, even now, if one should choose to seek it and incorporate it into his/her daily life. The awful truth is, most people want to feel justified in their animosity, disapproval, judgmental short sightedness and disdain.
You hear people every day speaking profanities and spewing vile rhetoric, either toward or, about one another. We justly wonder if the word “Politician” has become synonymous with the terms “Nemesis” and “Villain” and so many seek to justify immorality, violence and perversion.
People should be free to choose and so they are…for now, or at least we think we're free to choose. We erroneously believe that our opinions actually carry some weight within the world we live. And even now there are those who will read these words and feel anger, as well as defiance, toward what I say. To that I say…it's okay. It's okay to be angry and it's okay to be uncertain and afraid. At least these are honest expressions of deeper emotion.
The funny thing about reality is, it's absolutely based on absolute truth. We might choose not to accept the reality and it's truth but it effects us whether we accept it or not. There is no sidestepping the truth. It will seek you out, in your secret places and strike at the heart of you, no matter where you run.
Sadly, there is little we as a people can do to change what has now become absolute reality. The most we can do is stand tall and hold our heads high, to fight for what we know, in the marrow of our bones, to the depths of our souls, to be right. Only then can we glimpse ourselves in the mirror and not wince with shame and pain.
Seek out the beauty if you can. Seek it out, nurture it, hold it close to your heart. Enjoy the simple pleasures for they arewhat memories and dreams are made of. Look into your past and remember a beloved forgotten song or story and find it again. Share these things with those you love and wish only happiness for then take all your anger and unhappiness, no matter who it's toward, and bury it in a pleasant thought. The truth is…we are the weavers of our own dreams and the authors of our own misery. Others can contribute but only we choose how we will feel about their behavior. The only person you can control or change is you.
Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with each of us and may we always remember that even a journey of a thousand miles must begin with the first step. And each of us must take it. That's the reality.
