IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GAY MARRIAGE AND I KNOW IT.
People will always bitch about insignificant things because it makes them feel important, and it keeps our attention away from the BIGGER, more important issues.
I've done it myself.
It's human.
We crap on about the petty stuff...
Because it keeps our attention away from the BIGGER problems.
The insoluble ones.
Like GENOCIDE.
Cruelty.
Inhumanity.
Most people just turn away.
Sadly..I cannot do it for long.
I think it was watching Dr James Orbinski last night, and his humanitarian work in Rwanda & Somalia. Listening to him trying to come to terms with treating a woman in the field in the middle of GENOCIDE...who has had her ears and her breasts hacked off with a machete and is covered in seven varieties of dried semen...
& seeing people today waving banners about the right to sign CONTRACTS???
sheesh.
It became too much for me, I'm afraid.
Overwhelming.
In my life...
I feel peaceful and happy for a while...
but then man's inhumanity to man sneaks into my room at night and nudges me awake.
I was always a sensitive lad...& I can't lie straight in bed without feeling it.
That wave of cruelty and brutality I KNOW is out there.
It's either a mood disorder...or I cannot stand the fact there is so much unkindness...& I don't know what to do about it.
Here's to finding peace in doing our bit to right the wrongs, I guess...
Don't sweat the big stuff.
If you're unlucky...It'll sweat YOU.
I think a lot of people struggle with this. I know I do. The feeling of powerlessness. Coming to grips with the sheer atrocities man commits against man make me lose a little more hope in humanity.
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