Ramblings: Part Two

A placard with one name on it, Simian; a vision with a bullet’s shell; a rock with a smudge on it. Connect the dots. Who am I? Placemats with no silverware. How can you get someone to believe you when all they ever heard had been lies; amoral. Can I touch you with words? I never laid a hand on you. Can you hide your feelings from me? I see through you like glass. I want to take all the lies, hurt and damage caused to you and swallow it. I am strong, but I am empty. An open wound on my heart that doesn’t seem to heal. Is it so wrong to expect love? To feel love? Maybe, but it shouldn’t be wrong to accept it for what it is. Is it unconditional? Unlikely. The conditions are mostly mental and emotional; a connection sensed through the heart and not sight, touch, sound, smell or any other “senses”. The colloquial usage of the word “love” has lost its effect. I am here to bring it back. Love has a power, not unlike that of religion. It has surely been used over the years by the power-hungry man, or woman, to gain something: acceptance or perhaps sex. Don’t use a term you don’t understand because it will corrupt the integrity of the word. It has happened again and again over the years. Love, Religion, Faith, Marriage, don’t feed the destruction of language. You can only be ignorant for so long, Mr. boy-who-cried-wolf. It is a challenge, save yourself from the grasps of your peers (including societal standards). Don’t be afraid to be different. I don’t mean you, you gothic, emotional punks. Don’t be different for difference’s sake. I know you; I see you; I hear you, hiding behind your facades. We live in a strange world; a homogenous society of individuals. Quite perplexing, eh? Sounds like a paradox. It’s not. Think aloud. You are the same as every other person, but it isn’t meant to be. Tick-tock the clock is auto-winding. Without change it will rewind itself once a day and be aligned with the collective unconscious we so proudly adhere to. The one of the human race. We are special. We reason; but so does every single human who lives on this wonderful planet (within limitations). You can’t simply put on a mask and change your emotional state. Try it and be defeated. It is kind of like hiding in the open, in the middle of the day, and sunny. All the thieves, murderers, rapists, and religious extremists ( I am just showing the inherent evil present, not including these or excluding others), you are no different than the business men (women), teachers, priests, artists, linguists of the world. Believe in the connection of society. One will not work without the other. Greatness is not built on self-pity nor is it built by letting your head explode exponentially with egotistical manifestations. Two people meet. There is a mechanical connection between the two people. Why? You don’t get the same connection between a man and an animal. It isn’t possible. It doesn’t matter the race, age, politics, language or any other obstacles that make man independent from any other man. It is easy to visualize the concept through the collective unconscious. We all have fears; we all have can be happy; we all can simply know things. It is the nature of mankind to know. Fundamentally different? I suppose it depends on who you ask. Ask yourself why one man deserves to go on living (once again within limitations) and another deserves to die; why one man deserves love and another deserves to be shunned by society. My words, like communism, are essentially empty because of the greed of Man and the unwillingness to accept change (don’t act like you do). We will forever, always have and always will, trample the ideals that we call equality in socio-economic-humanitarian relation that can never exist, or even claim existence. I want to believe in change; I want to believe in love, but let’s face it, there will never be a singular connection between people, as one giant mass of humans falling further and further away from universal love. Once again, I am not a religious person, but we do have many things to learn from the holy scripts of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and other texts merely scripted from the minds of humans which shape the world ( I won’t claim they are prophets ). It is a challenge to be non-judgmental about a specific sect, religion, race, cult, or whichever someone believes in without revealing cliché stereotypes about a certain group of people. As we have just learned, we are all fundamentally the same. You may be asking, “Well, if we are all fundamentally the same, why did you challenge us to be different”? Don’t just act different; Be different. It is a challenge not to slip into the mold that your surroundings have created before you and will continue to create after you cease to exist.