We Could Do It

If you seek happiness, peace and security join me, my friend, in creating a world where patience and tolerance, kindness and compassion, longsuffering and gentleness rule our actions. A world where each Sovereign Being, plant, animal and mineral is respected and admired for their contribution to the whole. Where everyone knows that another's opinion is not an attack on one's own, just another way of looking at life. Which doesn't make another's any less valid.

The best that we can do in life is to live a life without fear. Fear is a mask we wear when we stop taking responsibility for Who We Are, when we forget how precious we are no matter our station in life, or our circumstance.

Why do we seek answers outside ourself instead of knowing life is a gift we've chosen to experience and there isn't a right or wrong way to go about it. You can only be you right now.

Though we've been taught by others, it doesn't make them right. Much teaching comes from the traditions of an era of fear where controling the masses took top priority. And the results are more than evident.

We needn't do anything if we are content with the state of affairs in our world. If we support five percent of the population conrolling eighty plus percent of the wealth while millions in the world are starving. If sending our sons off to war to kill someone else's son at the whim of corrupt rulers whose motives are greed and power isn't an issue. If we're content to have our drinking water polluted, Earth's top soil contaminated with pesticides so that mass production of crops which feed livestock instead of people can be grown. If the benefits of materialism: loss of family structure, increased debt, stockpiles of goods we "just had to have" cluttering our lives, filling storage units, children raising themselves cause our life style demands most of our time or the stress of clawing one's way to the top just to have it all yanked out from under you, just to name a few, are acceptible and you can continue to enjoy what we've created, peace be with you, live long and prosper there are no wrong choices at the moment we make them.

There is however, always, an opportunity to change. I'm sure future generations, unless we destroy ourselves, would appreciate it if we secured a world worth inhabiting, but of course they may never be anyway so we can always choose to eat, drink and be merry at least for a while.

I don't know about you but I could stand to see some more positive choices made. And I hope I'm not the only one. But I only know what's best for me, not for anyone else. I do know that change comes quickest when I focus on changing me and not worrying about how others are living their lives.

Paizli Palmrose © 2009