Are we that afraid of our own potential that we cower in
mediocrity? Are we so accustomed to doing what is enough over what is destined?
In my few years on this planet listening and watching
people, as much as myself, wade through the normal routines of life, I’ve
always wondered why we do what we do. Is there more to this thing we call life
or is this all that there is to it; eat, sleep, procreate, die and repeat. Or are
we simply too scared to stare into our own existence for the answer to a
burning question that lingers behind everyone’s mind.
For the few who do turn inward, a painful truth resonates
back onto their faces, that all that we accumulate, the accolades that we
attain and the people we know soon bare no weight at the edge of our demise.
It then becomes
evident that our lives are not ours alone, but a brief moment in time lent to
us for the benefit of the whole entire human race. That an individual’s person
is a part of a macrocosm that is not only responsible for its own advancements
but that of his fellow human beings and the planet as a whole.
Our fight is with all that keeps us from growth, the ills
that we simply brush under the carpet out of glaring eyes. Corruption,
injustice, prejudices, and intolerance as oxymoronic as it may sound; these are
the vices we must not tolerate for our own sake. We fight in wars over
ideological differences, resources and beliefs to maintain our man made divisions
but never once ask ourselves why and for whose advancement?
Our fight is not with our fellow man but ourselves, therefore,
we must rise to the challenge to be more and do more for our own sake and the
benefit of mankind.
Peace!
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