Focus on a problem, and the problem gets worse. Focus on a solution, and the solution works better. There is an almost irresistible urge to point out what’s seems to be going wrong, and why. There’s sickness all around! There are injustices galore! Who can be trusted!? There’s intense corruption! This all seems so weird! Politicians are fascist puppets! We’re being herded off a proverbial cliff by a hyper selfish group of parasitic kleptocrats! Can’t you see that our news is propagandized weaponry? The environment is being aggressively toxified! We’re consenting to, and cooperating with, a system that’s working to eliminate us! And they’re charging US to do it! Can’t you see what’s going on!?!? Wake up!!!! This is an outrage! You should be shocked! For better or worse these are not uncommon world view perspectives, nor responses to them. I, along with some others, am getting pretty good at pointing out where injustice resides, where freedom is lost, and where liberty is deprived, but at what point does that seem to contribute to real meaningful improvement? To be fair, these precious elements of life have never seemed to be more harmed, or at greater risk. So… Is identifying a problem really the solution to a problem, or does it show that there’s the need for one. From this point of view it looks like the modern problem is founded in the spirit, ideas, and actions of gratuitous taking. If the anti-pole of problem is solution; what then the anti-pole of taking???
Give and take for better or for worse. It’s a challenge to not grab for mine while at the same time pointing out how others are stealing theirs. How do I know it’s not envy ruling the roost? I mean who’s really bullshitting who!? The temptation of material ease and luxury has me. I’ll give later, gotta get now. Suddenly, there’s a sense of the surrealism of presence. An extrapolation down a wormhole of relentless depravity, carelessness, unchecked ambition, and furiously impersonal disfavor pops me out with meaning. This here is the twilight zone. It unfolds. An egalitarian reference point pierces the consciousness, the linkage of eternity, and everything in it, becomes visible. Now a serious question can be asked. What is it that you really want? Pause…. Bell strike…. Pause…. I want to succeed without alibi. Fair favor for everyone! It’s for, not from. It’s peace, not stress. It’s give and take. It’s mine and yours. What’s given is what is kept. Keep what you give, and it’s greater than this. For better or worse, dwell on a solution, share favor and find the world beyond the routine repetitive problems on which have regularly relied.