Fiction from fact. Our passion for contradiction leads us to spend precious time weighing, the pros and cons of getting the story straight. We all at some point have relished in the game of bringing the goods on a situation to which no challenge could be presented. A clever rouse, time and again can be humorous for sure. Many turns of a word can also cause lasting pain and heartache.
The sometimes brutal nature of the learning process, we must endure to come to a better place within our own humanity. The importance of bringing our way of thinking back to integrity. We live in scattered times, in danger of losing basic tenets of decency,morality, and plain common sense.
Understand, this is no self righteous, spiritual, soap box, one way is the right way type deal.
Simply, we are in danger of losing the ability, to respect ourselves. In the process, as time passes
we increasingly have begun to take the word "respect" out of our vocabulary. It seems times are a little extreme, and nobody's getting what Ms. Aretha sang about so defiantly.
The unfortunate truth is, our lack of respect for one another has brought about larger issues for centuries. The common ground we walk upon is laced with such a mixture of good and evil, once decent and striving to be better individuals have fallen prey to the damage done.
To place blame in any one direction is a foolish endeavor, though done without conscience.
All things "constitutionally" being equal puts our desire to tell Stories, in lieu of the truth, with us all.
Its been said life can be a simple thing, it is we who make it hard. Is it possible we could do things the easy way ? The jury has been for years with this one.
I will give this thought: Just imagine if we treated each other, the way we would want to be treated. The daydream is possible, except most never would even dare to dream. Preferring instead to sweat it out in continuous nightmare, oblivious to the dish of denial they are served, and salivating for the game of telling story without truth.
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Comments
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I was always taught to treat others as I wanted to be treated. I was stunned when I entered the world and saw how people could be so cruel and uncaring. I enjoyed your words...very nice thoughts...thank you!!!

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wise wise words
i agree with all of this.flaubert said there is no truth there are only different ways of seeing.


