The world I live in

I am on a journey, hell aren't we all... Since the fateful year of 2001, I seem to have been stripped of everything that I hold dear and have started to recreate myself. This has led me to many experiences that sometimes, it seems that I just need to take a breath and say, whew, "what just happened?". I am growing in ways that I did not think was imaginable, faced obstacles like starting a business and losing a business, giving it my soul and finding out it was not enough. Finding love and finding out that I am not enough in that either...but what came from all of these things is that I am stronger, better, more spiritually focused (meaning inwardly focused) on who I am.

I am sad that today there are people who do not have food to eat, or someplace to lay thier head, or someone who loves them, or at least someone who tells them. I cry when I see how much we are raping the tender earth that we live in, how we by-pass the older person, who has so much to say, just because they are old, how we ignore our neighbor because we are different. Do we not breath the same air? Do we not all come from the same place? Do our differences really scare us this much that we cannot allow someone who is different from us the same rights and considerations that we have come to believe is ours?

I believe that we need to stop and take a moment and truly write down a list of why we are so afraid of these differences, will they change us? Does I really want to hurt them and in effect hurt myself? Would I want it to happen to me? That is the biggie question, when I ask myself that, I use that as my judging block...Would I want it to happen to me? And on the days that I am being open and honest, I can usually say no!

The next question I ask myself is "will I change by knowing them?" And again, the answer is I usually find out more about myself in the journey to get them or their circumstance better. I do change by expanding them into my thought, my feelings and my emotions. I grow as a person, I grow as a segment of society, I change into something like a better version of myself.

Someone once said that a society or a community is made up of a single person, who can effect change within it. Today, I become the person for change!