Just a tip...

Written on napkins at the food court in the mall, around 5pm, in the spring, college town.

Sometimes I sit and wonder why we are the way we are. People I mean. We all spend way too much time worrying about what other people think of us. And why do we even care.

In the beginning we were created as man and woman. The first two humans on this planet were complete opposites! And they flourished as no other being ever has, with the exception of per haps the common roach, which I think is gods gift for those of us who feel we are superior to ever other being on the planet!

So there we were in this great garden, totally oblivious to any fault or wrong within one another, and we loused it up. We couldn't follow one simple rule. And now We set up rules for everything, knowing that it is in our nature to break those rules.

In our cities, we have governing laws that we must abide by, our we risk criminal prosecution. We can be fined, or even jailed, for breaking these laws, and yet we have millions of them! Imagine what a true intelligence would think of a society who set's rules for itself that it knows it can't follow.

So we look down on those who don't follow "our rules". In school. We looked down on the kids who didn't follow "our rules" with regards to; money, looks, GPA or other trivial factors. We shunned them and even assaulted them, both physically and emotionally, with little care to how it affected them. And yet even now, when so much is known about the human brain, we are amazed that a student, a child, would do such things as the Columbine massacre.

And how many of you have said "hello" to your mail delivery person, or taken the time to just wish them a good day? They spend hours in the heat, or the cold, or the rain, just so that we can get that Spiegel catalog that will sit on the end table 3.7 weeks before being tossed out, unread. And still we are dumb-struck when one of them "goes postal" and kills several of the very people that take his labors for granted.

I think we should all just take five, look at our lives, and see how many parts of it, or people in it, we take for granted, and maybe try to find some way to make them more lively, or respected. Put down these eternal rules that we use to alienate those not of our kind, color, or creed. Sing with the wino, sleep with the office tramp, smoke with the hippy and lighten the fuck up. We were opposites from the start. Let's not let it confuse our goals now.