We wonder how and why good people are sick and dying. We question how ‘normal’ people lose their minds and open fire in Amish villages. We watch people lose their tempers in grocery lines and in traffic jams, and we can’t understand why no one writes thank you notes any more. We mourn the school shootings. We numbly watch the evening news 365 nights a year so we can be educated about the most recent account of inhumanity and become prepared for the next impending disaster. We look at screens rather than eyes. We type conversations. We send kind hearted people off to earn college debts so they may earn their meager wages teaching children to pencil in the bubbled test sheets. And then on Friday night, we treat ourselves with a $12.00 movie ticket to watch the devastation of life on the big screen.
Yep… here it comes. THE rant.
Here’s the story line we know going into the movie theater: The job is to kill as many ‘bad guys’ as possible even if they are under the age of 12. The leading actor will be applauded as hero because the length of his ‘kill list’ is more about who was saved in the long run than who he took down. Next, he loses his mind and his family. And finally, he is killed by someone else who killed people, lost his mind, and now must kill the leading actor. And YOU just spent your twelve bucks because Hollywood wanted to right the situation and do a movie out of benevolence and give all the proceeds to care for those who lost their minds in war. NOOOOOOO. Hollywood wanted to buy another house in the South of France.
My, friends!! There is no mystery to the sad state affairs we are in knee deep! There is nothing baffling about the divorce rate, the staggering elevation of abuse, the continual school shootings, the terrorist attacks, the ease of deception, and the exhaustion and depression plaguing old and young alike. We shake our heads and claim we simply do not understand what is happening, and then we mindlessly support the very things that cause mindlessness, violence, and illness.
How are you spending your thoughts, your money, your life? How do your daily choices make you weaker or stronger as a human being? What are you doing to ease the life of another? How are you consciously tending that which will make our world and our homes more humane, compassionate, wise, and connected? You and I have more impact than we realize. Let’s make it for good. Let’s make it for what we know beyond a shadow of a doubt is worthwhile.
Yep… here it comes. THE rant.
Here’s the story line we know going into the movie theater: The job is to kill as many ‘bad guys’ as possible even if they are under the age of 12. The leading actor will be applauded as hero because the length of his ‘kill list’ is more about who was saved in the long run than who he took down. Next, he loses his mind and his family. And finally, he is killed by someone else who killed people, lost his mind, and now must kill the leading actor. And YOU just spent your twelve bucks because Hollywood wanted to right the situation and do a movie out of benevolence and give all the proceeds to care for those who lost their minds in war. NOOOOOOO. Hollywood wanted to buy another house in the South of France.
My, friends!! There is no mystery to the sad state affairs we are in knee deep! There is nothing baffling about the divorce rate, the staggering elevation of abuse, the continual school shootings, the terrorist attacks, the ease of deception, and the exhaustion and depression plaguing old and young alike. We shake our heads and claim we simply do not understand what is happening, and then we mindlessly support the very things that cause mindlessness, violence, and illness.
How are you spending your thoughts, your money, your life? How do your daily choices make you weaker or stronger as a human being? What are you doing to ease the life of another? How are you consciously tending that which will make our world and our homes more humane, compassionate, wise, and connected? You and I have more impact than we realize. Let’s make it for good. Let’s make it for what we know beyond a shadow of a doubt is worthwhile.
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