Hey people! Wait!
Hold on!
Is it just me?
I am getting scared a bit!
Reading the New York Times every day,
I scratch my head lately!
I am bewildered, i am baffled, mystified, perplexed, alarmed.
And i get scared more than a little.
Up seems down and left seems right
and people send pipe bombs to political opponents
and a president makes his followers chant “Lock her up”
and insults and accusations are the language of the day.
The US president lies and makes accusations up all the time
and borders are closed so no-one can come in.
And refugee ships find no harbor
and children starve in Yemen.
Journalists are kidnapped and heinously murdered,
with radioactive chemicals and bone saws.
Priests are raping and molesting little kids for decades
and no police steps in, nobody goes to prison.
Fake news are created and delivered thru Facebook and Twitter
and people stare wide eyed into their phones, “liking” it.
Plastic is becoming mountain-sized in the oceans,
infiltrating the food chain back to you and me.
Hurricanes and floods are coming in increasing regularity
and no conclusions are set to law to prevent their cause.
And even while the earth is consistently warming,
developing low grade fevers, inflammations,
we, the people, we go on with our day.
Like lemmings we march on.
We occupy ourselves with our own little big problems,
retreat into our private happiness.
Let it all slide past our mind.
Sleep for another day.
“Hey!”, you say: “What do you want me to do?”
“Why are you so riled up?”
“Relax man, everything will be alright!”
“Chill!”
Right, i better chill.
And yet, i get scared lately.
Cause right seems left and up seems down …
“But, but …”, I say:
“Maybe we should do something about it all”
What do you think?
Well, you are speaking for me and for many others. This issue has been a heavy loads for me for some time and I’ve been reading and listening to people standing on the other side and actively doing something meaningful and contribute to the world to get some inspiration for myself, as it seems not liking it and opposing it is not enough. It seems the most important is to think and live diffently, let the world know it and set an example to my children and people around. Next is learning to communicate with the dummies (like voters of the populist, racists and xenophobes), try to understand their logic, try to explain the things in the way they can grasp it and convince them to change their mind. Otherwise they will just continue to ruin the world. I am just looking for the ways, how to do it.
This is what it says in the bible: Look and you shall find.knock and the door will be opened. Or something like that : )