stop…
i did some thinking about the way things are going in this country…as i’m sure many of us are…but…is that where it stops? we mull over our situation, perhaps talk it over with another person…shake our heads and offer up theories/suggestions/depressing forecasts or, idealistic predictions…and then, we move on to whatever destination or task we have set in front of us…and that’s it…when the shit of our country’s situation becomes noticeable shit in our lives…we complain, throw out the customary “woe is me” sentiment and then, go on about our business…we watch our worlds begin to crumble and, when finally everything we thought would never happen to us becomes a reality we must face…only then do we step outside of pride’s ridiculous cage and ask for help…but by then, it’s too late and we are forced to let ride a train whose tracks end at the edge of a cliff…a train we got on of our own free will…and we watch as others do the same, day in and day out…yet…the answer is right in front of us…so simple but, to our imprisoned minds and cowardly wills…so damn impossible for us to wrap our brains around…all it would take is for us to…STOP. yup…that’s right…simply, stop. stop following the rules and take a step toward your neighbor…offer to help them…ask them to help you…extend yourself outside of yourself and do so not for the sake of being repayed monetarily…no…money can’t play a part at all because, quite frankly…money, or rather our fucking attachment to it, is the root of the evil that is taking us down. the problem, however (and, sadly, in addition to all the problems we are facing) is, there are too few people who would be willing to help their neighbor out…pretty stupid because, when your neighbor’s world takes a spin into shit mode…inevitably, so will yours…we think we can handle what’s coming at us all on our own…we don’t need “nobody”…yet, we’re so mistaken…we need each other…we need to stop doing things the way we’ve been doing things and find an alternative way to live…we keep using the same faulty methods expecting different results (borrowing $700 billion…jesus…we have to pay that back people!) with the end result being, we’re simply deeper in the mess we’ve gotten ourselves into…we are like hamsters on a wheel…heads in the sand, expecting the government to “do the right thing”…bail us out…see to our needs when, dammit to hell…isn’t it obvious by now that this government has none of our best interests in mind? it’s up to us…we need to wake up, step up…take care of each other and regard each other as valuable as we consider ourselves…we must tow the line individually and come together collectively if we are to survive what’s just around the corner…we must believe in ourselves for the first time in such a long time…believe in the ideal that it took the common man, woman and child to build our country…stop separating our forces as members of this society and lay down our perceptions of each other long enough to turn our gazes forward, together looking to a future we can create…We the People…we must first…stop…
