Death to Symbols
Lots of things have been happening to us (most not so good) so most of it’s my internal coping, trying to come up with a method for dealing with life. It’s not so bad though, just hard.
I’d like to clamber out of the crucible for a little while. Don’t get me wrong. This crucible that is Puerto Rico, life etc. has helped me become a better person. That I firmly believe. It’s also shown me how woefully lacking is the world in great people, people of conscience, people of passion.
Why can’t all these world leaders, caught up in their petty little differences just make a bold move? At the moment of such hate, anger, and fear… just reach out and embrace them. Do something so outside the box as to stun the world into peace. It’s all there for the asking. It just takes someone to make the leap. Sigh, there I go again.
Anyway, sometimes things happen to you and although they make you better you don’t wish for them again. Take boot camp for example, a worthwhile venture, but not one I’d care to repeat. Same goes for Puerto Rico… however, it’s given me perspective on hardship that I wouldn’t otherwise have.
If I was Arafat or Sharon, I’d resign. They are the two biggest obstacles of peace in the Middle East. Two big angry idiots defending their houses of cards. Each CAN NEVER admit fault. My system is impeachable and I will fight to the death for it, they scream at each other.
Show me a person willing to kill for his system of beliefs and I will show you a person that does not believe them.
Each is so scared of pulling one single card. What happens when you pull one single card from the house of infallibility? Were we ever infallible to begin with?
Not that simple, you say? You can’t just make bold moves like that and expect to get away with it? Hah, the world IS that simple. It’s motivated by simplicity, bold deeds, people who take action, and move with passion. What’s blocking the Mid East from moving forward is one single thing, so simple that I imagine once they figure it out the feeling stupid will nag them for generations.
Don’t preserve your way of life. Preserve your people. What good is a way of life if everyone is dead? Think about your people, struggling, dying. Think about the children dying in the streets, growing up with no hope. Save them. Here’s what you need to do. Fall on your sword, Arafat, Sharon. Do yourselves in so that your people will be stunned to peace. Show them you are leaders. Show them they are more important than anything. Show them that you have failed and aren’t afraid to admit it. That’s what leadership is. It is leading. Simple really, eh? Admit failure and get out of the way, and start building a house based on your people instead of words and symbols.
Kill all the symbols, get out of the way.
I am thinking that all this makes perfect sense, and I’m frustrated that no one is making any moves… just sticking to careful little baby steps based on past actions, past failures. I would not seek actively to have such hardship thrust upon me, but, I think, I’m ready. I feel prepared to make a bold move, to accept something so impossible, so undoable, so gross an undertaking that my younger self would have fled in its face. I’ve been battling rats for some time… sometimes, I think, I’m ready to take on a that dragon.