Shake My Head

What a mess. What am I talking about? Just look around. Everything. I really try and see the goodness in people, but it is so overshadowed by ugliness that it’s hard to see the light. In 2023 we still have human right atrocities, we still have discrimination, we still have dictators and even wanna be dictators even here in the United States. And still, we just follow blindly on like sheep. On the highest level, our own government, there is so much corruption and self-serving politics that is makes me shake my head. And yet “we the people” do nothing about it. We allow the dollar to dictate. We allow bullies to rule. We allow incompetence to reign. A great nation, free, yet carrying so many chains of bondage, they think it’s normal. Why do we follow so blindly, why do we not use common sense and fact? Why do we not use the gift of technology for the greater good instead of our own demise? It’s just a repeat of past civilizations. I shake my head.

What a mess. Our own states, cities, neighborhoods, friends, family. We have lost any sense of tribe and community. We don’t look out for one another, we look what we can get, what we can take, what we can exploit and use against. We judge based off beliefs and thought processes that have nothing to do with living a true life. We allow to be controlled like a walking dead to devour all life and don’t think what is best as a whole. We follow blindly systems that are broke or misleading. We believe in things that just aren’t right. It’s like the witch burnings not so long ago. It’s like lynching and murdering in a very near past. It’s like a modern world waging war on the ones who don’t have the money to fight back. And we are still doing this every day, everywhere in so many ways. I shake my head. People do things from ignorance and not choosing to know wisdom. From laziness and not caring because it’s easier to just go with the flow of the masses. From ego because we think our way is the only way and we know best. We are a self-serving species and are on a path of self-destruction. I shake my head.

I see countries attack other countries. For what? What purpose? I see states pass legislation not for the people but for its politicians. I see people blindly following people and to a great extent using law and order and even violence to control their own agenda. I see families misguided and uninformed and isolating themselves against common sense, against knowledge and communication. I see a lack of wisdom, of tribe, of deep thinking for the greater good. What a mess, and it’s not getting better, it’s getting worse. What can I do? Nobody listens, and if they do then there is usually no righteous action. I shake my head. I will try and do my part, I will try and have a voice, I will try and reach one person at a time to say – there is a better way. I’m not perfect, and I struggle but at least my eyes are open. It’s just so hard to live in a suffocating world of chaos when there can and should be a world beautiful beyond measure. Actually, it’s not the world, the natural world is perfect, it’s just a species that thinks it is. I shake my head. What will the future look like? Maybe there isn’t much future left? All I really know is that we only have today and what we do today has an impact on tomorrow. What will your impact be?