The holiday season, for me, is waning quickly. New Year's Eve is around the corner, and 2014 right behind it. Though not generally a 'resolutions person', I actually started thinking about changes a few weeks ago. Not your typical changes, but deeper changes. No, that doesn't mean I think I'm perfect, but I don't make resolutions about weight or eating habits. Those are habits I just work on.
The changes, the resolutions, I'm talking about might be more like revelations and revolutions.
I am neither a politician, statesman, nor a billionaire. I do not move mountains. Neither do I cause small hummocks to tremble. However, there are things to be said. I want to be a part of the change that I see needed in the world. If only a small part, that is better to me than to be a part of the problem or a part of the mindless detritus and flotsam getting in the way.
Hidden among the folds of our shiny golden robes are the hungry and neglected. I can't help by wonder why. The short answers are Greed and Apathy of course, but what about the roots? What insecurities and what traumas have created the Greed and the Apathy? And of course, those are not the only two answers to "Why?" but they are two big ones.
We have people, our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, nephews, SONS and DAUGHTERS living on the streets... homeless. How can that be... in one of the most prosperous countries on earth? There is a quote, by Einstein I think, that speaks of a fear that our technology has exceeded our humanity. I will tell you this, long before our technology exceeded our humanity, our prosperity and love of 'things' exceeded our humanity. Our CONSUMERISM exceeded our humanity.
What happened to us?
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