Eye Opening

Life can be challenging and sometimes it challenges you to think afresh about your life, your path, your choices, and how you fit in the world. What do we seriously value? What do we choose to hold our attention and become our focus?

 

I certainly do not claim to have been everywhere there is to go, or having done everything there is to do. People, as far as I can tell, are people. Cultural details aside, such as language and cuisine, we all are far more similar than different. We have the same needs and desires. Yet most of us focus on the differences and allow them to be used as leverage to build ignorance, fear, hatred, and violence.

 

I avoid most of the news because it is not uplifting, but I do not live in a bubble, insulated and isolated from reality. It is easy sometimes to ignore the world at large and forget for a while just how horrible people can be to others. I listen to a classic song from 48 years ago and realize that no matter how much I want things to change, they don't necessarily get better. Not by themselves. I have to do something. We have to do something, to make things better.

 

Instead of focusing on faults and failures, we should focus on our common goals and dreams, learning from and supporting one another. Who are we to pass judgment and condemn anyone?

 

"War is not the answer

Only love can conquer hate"

- Marvin Gaye

 

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

Longboat to ChatuChak (Closing soon)

 

Done