moe-tif

What if…

challenge to the paradigms

...clocks did not exist?

…we respected Nature to such an extent that it was never questioned we do what was best for Her, in Her interests, not our own?

…we treated everyone like family?

…all weapons rusted one day and we couldn’t create any more because all our tools were rusted too?

…Columbus had believed the world was flat?

…we used our entire brain?

…people we think are abnormal because they’re talking to themselves really are talking to someone and we’re the abnormal ones because we don’t see the other person?

…goverments of the world could get the phrase “use your words” as easily as my three year old does when I catch her about to smack her sister in anger?

…the phrase, “think not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country”, was actually taken to heart?

…people stopped getting mad and started offering solutions to what they chose to make a problem?

…people realized that having problems or not are really the product of a choice?

…people realized that, like a ripple in a pond, even one individual can effect an entire world?

…fairies really do exist and angels really are all around us?

…we trusted one another?

…the fate of Mother Earth really does depend on us?

Indigenous people worldwide have the belief that Mother Earth is a sentient being. What if they’re right?

Why are we trying to get ahead? Ahead of what? Ahead in someone’s manufactured idea of what life should be? Someone sat down and wrote a book. He then went out and marketed his story, so to speak. He enrolled anyone who would listen into his idea and soon, he had quite a following. Somewhere along the way, people forgot that the story was just a story and started to live as though it were real. Then, they passed this on to their children who in turn passed it on to their own children. There were some minor changes made here and there. The book had become “reality” . Laws were made to keep people in line with the plot of the story and society frowned upon anyone who got too creative. People forgot that life is their own creation and that getting ahead is really just a chapter in someone’s idea for a book. Anyone interested in writing a new book?

I’ve been thinking about this term “politically correct”.  I think it’s stupid.  Oops, was that an impoliticly correct statement to make?  Is that what it takes to be p.c., being inauthentic to oneself and to the world just because someone might take offense?  Oh, let me add a word to that last sentence…”because someone might choose to take offense?”  Lord!  What are we as a society doing really?  In a world so full of diagnosis for our neurosis, do we not see that what we are really doing is enabling one another to be a victim?  Yes, that’s right a victim.  When one chooses to be offended, one is choosing to be wronged, singled out.  I’m not saying that this is the case all the time.  For example, should one come up to another and outright insult he or she (in an effort to be p.c., I’ll be sure not to exclude either gender)… (Do I really need to illustrate, c’mon, we know when an insult is an insult)…the insulted party has a right to stand up for he or her self!  But, why can’t I just say it like I feel it?  Why must I be so worried about the sensitivities of another that what I want to really say becomes more a struggle to please people’s listening than what I am authentically feeling?