Just kidding, I meant revolution
It's a particularly interesting time of year. Your favourite jogging route is suddenly filled with a tad more bodies than normally, some chap is doing bicep curls in the squatrack and you can't help but notice the confused faces at the adductor machines.
Ha, this is just on your way and inside the gym.
New Years is obviously a particularly fun time. South of lake Victoria we get to enjoy summer over the Christmas and New Years festive period. (If you listen carefully you can smell the envy of summer loving Northern Hemisphere peoples) The green monster aside though, going to the beach, catching some waves, people watching at the beach (for us men, a certain kind of people watching) and lazing in the sun is great. Recharging the batteries for an exciting year that lies ahead. Ah, all the places I'll visit, the people I'll meet, the things I'll do.
But I just can't help the feeeeeeeeeliiin'
After some Radiohead strikes you, you think about the year that has passed. You think about all the stupid things you've said, the hearts you broke and the missteps you've made. In one great flurry you're suddenly enveloped in an existential crisis. Dang, I am such a mess. What worth has my life. You remember the morning's news and of how children in Angola can't even play football outside, because one misstep and they'll make Frank Sinatra's wish come true - Fly me to the Moon. Mothers in Pakistan live in fear every moment, because little Mohammed's next six runs might trigger an IED. You can only imagine the oppression people in North Korea must face, not to mention. So many millions of our fathers and mothers have had to die for liberty. Then comes a nation like North Korea and disrespects the blood of our ancestors. Oi vey, Lord help us.
You know what is worse than the above paragraph?
Ignorance.
We, the children of the comparatively free world, turn our ears away and harden our hearts from the outcry from our cousins yonder the comfort of our air-conditioned rooms. We willingly let mega corporations brainwash us into believing that another iPhone is all we need. We let the corporations assuage us with reality television - coming up next another episode of a vain, shallow person falling further into the mire of ignorance.
I'm not saying all tv is bad, but when six corporations owns everything on American television - you need to wonder.
If our world is to truly self-actualise, I think we could start by turning off our televisions and social media alerts maybe just one day a week.
Get connected with nature again, look up to the starry night and behold God's Great Dancefloor.
Is it not amazing to have these things? Yeah, they're totally free.
People elsewhere are stripped even these freedoms.
We should not accept that.
May 2014 bring a revolution of the mind for we the children of the free world.
Peace, Hope, Faith, Love, Empathy
Diamond in the Rough
TheLonelyman
Enjoyed your post! Keep writing.
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