“Here in the wrinkle of our need,”
“Stop the clock, inhale and breath”
Static - Aria Sharp
There is such a dangerous, dangerous line that must never be crossed; and yet we do it constantly.
It is easier to be angry than it is to forgive, and it is easier to hate than to love. It is the strongest, bravest person in the world that can forgive someone who would return that sympathy with hatred instead. It is the most pure of all souls that can look at someone who has done great wrong and instead of wishing harm upon them, simply hope that they will one day understand the wrongness they have done to not only the world, but to themselves and seek to right the wrongs they have created.
The need to be loved, admired, held, understood. There is a need to be nurtured and there is the compulsion to try and fill the void that is within us from our birth…a purpose. Apathy is our greatest sin, and the true destroyer of humanity…If one cannot feel, then one is already dead. Everyone complains about how messed up the world is, but does anyone do anything to fix it? What do you do to make things better? …what should we be doing?
It is incrediably sad when I hear someone state that nothing matters…because that isn’t the point. I could explain, but instead I will just quote Garth Brooks, who truly got it right with his song “Changes”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One hand, reaches out, to pull a lost soul from the flames; while a thousand more go unanswered for, and they say “What good have you done? By saving just this one? It’s like trying to stop a fire, with the moisture from a kiss. And I hear them saying. “You’ll never change, things. No matter what you do, it’s still the same thing.” But it’s not the world that I am changing. I do this so, the world will know, that it will not change me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~And that’s the real point.
I will never give up on the world…because there is always something worth saving. Even if it is only one small thing. That is where we go wrong in the world, I think. We’ve got it all backwards…the world in general has it all backwards.
We think of things as how the bad outweigh the good and if this is true, then it not worth saving. Shouldn’t we instead, see the good that still exists, even with the bad, and then realize instead that there IS something worth saving? There is always good somewhere, if you can open your eyes to it…but you must be willing to see it.
Sticking your head in the sand and claiming you only see certain things is not only unjust but wasteful. It is something done when someone is convinced that they are right and everything else is wrong…it’s blindness in the face of realization that if they opened thier eyes, they could no longer hold the same opinion because they have seen something that proves their conclusion wrong…and it is easier to be blind than it is to see.
Being blind, you don’t have to change anything; you expect the world to confirm to your vision, even if by force.
…But to keep trying, even when everyone else would have given up? That’s something.
That’s worth something.
