So, I’ve been thinking about life. And thinking. And thinking, and thinking…until it just exploded like the Big Bang in my soul.
The world is wrong in so many of its choices. I’m not talking about personal choices, more than I am about social choices. The choices that we have to make from those options given to us by those considered acceptable. Provided by some cloaked committee that no one remembers choosing in the first place.
Look at what we have accomplished, where we have traveled, and how much effort we’ve expended to obtain those historical moments. We didn’t do it individually, and we sure as hell did not do it through simple monetary expenditures. We made life happen because history backed us into corners, and we reacted with choices that detonated society as we knew it. History tends to include those who seek to legitimize their own grandeur and rule unobstructed.
It happened continually, as it still occurs today with very different outcomes. Most of us can say that today’s outcomes are not providing for positive futures for Earth and its inhabitants. Losses like Keith, Chester, Delores, Opportunity, and so many life forms who are vanishing daily from our sight are daily reminders that the time for change is past due.
Yesterday’s flame out of the Firestarter is another nail that has splintered the social foundation for me. I now look into the great unknown and actively search for the something more that will dump the tea into the water. Look at the world as lego blocks that need to be fitted into new foundations unlike anything we’ve seen before. Shatter rules that seem set in stone, and use the crumbs in a new mix to be shaped by you into something that glitters unlike all the gold in the world.
Don’t be fooled by the glorified without knowing how it came into being. Read up on it all, and then decide for yourself if you can do better than those choices on offer. Learn from the past to build more opportunity for the future. Don’t fit in simply because it is expected, unless you are willing to lose yourself in the process.
Every cliche contain grains of truth. Seek the truth that strengthens potential.
I for one am tired of selecting a box from choices that don’t work. No more trying to fit all of my dreams into “Other”. I want “None of the Above” to mean that we create a new choice that doesn’t have to be acceptable first. And I want it to count for everything in life with no exceptions. Because it’s the exceptions that always get us in the end.
In this way, we honor those who went before us and changed the world just a little bit away from the norm. This way we bring the flame in and light our souls on fire.
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
– S. Jobs (before we really got to know him) – because it still resonates
…just saying
