Sleep My Child

Sleep my child, dream of a world refined by wisdom.  Sleep and dream, dream.

I wish you all the love and joy that can be wished upon one whom you love.  I love you.  You are the fruit of my loins, the miracle of your mother’s womb.  I am forever indebted to you for the happiness that you have brought.  I have been disarmed by your beauty.  My masculinity decimated by your smile, I replicate your happy sounds and I am a babe again.

I am your father, I am your protector, your teacher, your friend.  I have dedicated my life to your development, your happiness.  I am there when you cry, I hug you.  I tell you are safe.  I tell you this sadness is but a momentary thing, a passing emotion before joy returns.

What you become depends on the example your mother and I set, if you know only wisdom, joy and thoughtfulness, it is our hope you will follow these things and become the examples we have set.  We will be there for you always, your ups and downs, trials and tribulations, joys and sadness, anger and misery are ours to share with you.  You will never be alone.

As you dream, dream of happiness.  Dream of the world you want.

Responsibility

What is this world I have found myself in?  Every day I foolishly read the news knowing I will lose faith by what I read, yet I read anyway. Why?  I have to ask myself why I allow this into my life, but then I wonder.  To ignore the problems of the world, would I just be burying my head in the sand?  Would I be hiding from a world in need?  Or would I be telling the world, I will not let you in.  I will not allow you to diminish my hope, my faith in humanities future.

I regret.  Why?  Because there is so much I should have done early on, so much wasted time, so many lazy days.  I regret because I buried my head in the sand and did not act as I should have.  I did not stand up and join the chorus of other voice seeking to end the insanity they are presented with every day.  If a person ignores the truth of the world then they are smart enough to see and understand that truth, if they do nothing, they have squandered their gift.  If you see the world as it truly is, it is then your responsibility to try and add some sanity to the world you see.  Every day we all have a choice, whether to go left or right, whether to do good or evil.  Every day we are presented with choices and each choice we make affect the world we live in.  We have to decide whether or not we want to make a positive choice or a negative one.

I often wonder about the effects a single individual can have on the world as a whole, one individual person seems so small when compared to the vast ocean of humans that are out there.  But then I think of people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. And yes even Hitler, I think how these individual people influenced the masses in such a way as to spark a flurry of change in the world.  Then I think of the more ethereal men and women such as Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Satan, Athena, and Venus.  These are figures that have been cast into a supernatural and deity spectrum, but I think they must have been based on something more worldly.  The true stories must have had such an impact as to thrust these people into a more elevated mythos.  These beings influenced millions of individual minds over the millennia.  I wonder what these people would think of how their words have been twisted and diluted to serve the interests of a few.  There are good and evil people in history but they all have left a profound mark o the development and evolution of our species.  It is our responsibility as each successive generation to remember these words and not distort them for our own personal gain, it is the responsibility of the people who comprehend these words to bring about a positive change for future generations.

Each of us has a choice and a responsibility, we have a choice to do right or wrong, we have a responsibility to do right.  For only through our deeds and our thoughts can we affect real change throughout the world.  Let us begin anew, let us strive for more, let us love, let us live, let us hold those responsible who seek to undermine the progress and truth of humanity.  Feed the poor, love the rich, they are people too.  We each have a choice to escape the role that has been set for us and acknowledge there is another path we each can take.  Let us take the more difficult path, let us become better human, let us progress our species.

Black Friday

Black Friday is a word that should and does sound like an evil holiday, if the words were not associated with shopping deals and insane hordes of trudging zombie consumers we would probably associate it with a day like Halloween or some Satanic event.  But alas Black Friday is neither of those things.  Black Friday is the day where many businesses get their accounting ledgers out of the red (negative profits) to the black (positive profits).  It is a holiday for any business looking to recoup losses or just increase their profits for the year. 

But for so many in this nation Black Friday has become a day with more meaning than family, friends and the “Reason for The Season” if you want to take a page out of the holiday book.  It has come to be known as the day where items can be purchased dirt cheap thus creating a feeding frenzy of shoppers trying to get the best deals on everything from Christmas presents to items for themselves.  Why? We have to ask is this day so important?  I think it is because society as a whole have begun to associate material things with happiness like an addict does with a drug.  Black Friday is the ultimate day for those addicted to get a greater fix.  The pushing, fighting, yelling and general anarchy of that day increases the high.  The drive to get in there first, the drive to win.  The most basic of human motivation. Competition.  But this is only one of the types of people that go to these events.  The others are the more down to earth, people who are just looking to attempt to get something they have long desired at a price they can afford.  Others are there out of desperation to get their kids good Christmas presents on the only day they can afford them. 

Black Friday is a terrible idea invented by corporatism to incite shopping hysteria, they feed on the raw animal power of the hordes.  A person trampled under the hooves of the herd is a win for them. To see that people are so desperate for your product they are willing to throw common decency and human civility out the window and descend to the purest basics of the reptilian part of the brain.  How can we call ourselves a civil society if we are so easily manipulated by shiny things?  They are the masters throwing their scraps on the floor, for us the dogs, to fight over.

We can no longer accept this as a reality, it is time for us to realize who is pulling the strings.  We are Man, we are Woman.  We are not animals, we are not beasts to prey on each other. This society should endeavor to move beyond this type of madness and greed.  We are being manipulated for the profit and greed of an elite class.  They will rule us as long as we continue to allow them power over us.  We must stand up, we must evolve beyond these animal tendencies they are preying on us with.

I call out to all people, all humans.  We are not animals, we are Human.  We evolve to better ourselves.  Let us not take a step back on Black Friday but a step forward and refuse to be toyed with.  I know one day we will look back on this madness that is Black Friday as a stain on human history, but when will this be, next year?  Next century? It is up to us.