What’s not so simple is addictions. Mental and physical. We are all (?) pretty much addicted. To food, sex, money, power, comfort, ease of transportation, entertainment, cell phones, computers, the need to be right, fashion, shopping, wars, emotions, abuse… It goes on and on. Might be that this is how we learn. Such a simple thing as smoking. Once it becomes a part of your thinking and body pleasures it takes a supreme effort to get rid of the habit. Just education isn’t enough.
Our tendency to divide everything is interesting. Kill things and take ‘em apart to see how they work. Right and wrong. Black and white. Me and other. It almost looks like it’s objectification. This is crazy, because who am I to be talking about these things? Just wanna be an unknown. In the background. Behind the curtains, you know? But I too am an immigrant. Most of us are. Maybe a few generations back, but still… But I wasn’t even born here. Come from a country much much older than America, but still seen as a Third World Country, which is sort of like an insult, you know? But ok. We know about slavery from direct experience. Slavery is nothing new. But, objectification, right? You become an object with which anything and everything can be done. Hard to believe but it’s still rampant in this world. 2020, and we’re still as barbarians. Highly technological, but barbarians. So slavery sort of gives you a tremendous inferiority complex and a huge dose of anger which lingers on for centuries. An now, I’m going, ok. If I’m not a slave, what am I? What do I do? Especially, once you realize that yes, we make the world! I look at the wall being built along the Southern Border and can’t help but wonder. Couldn’t all this money be better spent?
Like the great Rastafarian said, “you gotta love what you do and do what you love!”. Add to that a little curiosity, and things begin to happen. (Was told I’m getting into my preacher mode. Still makes me smile). It’s a fascination with being an active part of the story. Eight billion of us! All with a contribution! So much of it silent. So HOTWU. A Monument for Humanity. Hearts of the World United.
Just talking. Waiting to see if there’s a response out there somewhere…