100 Naked Words — Day 30
Opportunity Awaits
Reflections, Ripples and Ramblings of a Restless Mind
Infinite opportunity and we’re fiddling at the edges. Space to move and we’re crowded in the corner.
Man’s greatest resource is his mind, and rather than pursuing real equality, we are champions of inequality. We use our intellect to consume and to propagate consumption.
I hate to disabuse our image of the enlightened era, but we are instead entrenched in the Kali Yuga, predicted age of sloth and ruination, where man forsakes the ideals of the past, distances himself from higher thinking.
What use is our knowledge and our immense capacity for compassion if we chase only the material. It all fades to dust in the end.
And don’t get me wrong, I’m no different, no less inclined to spend wasteful hours feeding my boredom rather than creating change. Every day I tell myself I’m better, and every day I fall short of that ideal.
I want to change the world, I want to build the bridge and destroy the walls, to raise people up, not knock them down, to create wonder not wallow in stagnant ideals, to be more than I have ever been, for more than the one, for the many. I want to challenge the quo and champion the other. I want…
But wanting is one thing. Do I have the strength to do. Do I have the chutzpah, the raw talent and the will.
I’ve been called an idealist —normally in a disparaging tone of voice — but I choose to wear my idealism with pride. Unfortunately for now it’s just a badge.
For it to have meaning, and maybe even for me to have meaning I need to take action.
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