TRUTH

Call me misanthropic, call me a kill-joy & sanctimonious but I really cannot stand the human race sometimes…..or maybe it’s just Western culture. I look around & all I see is me, me…ME! - People with such a narrow self-focussed view of the world that they nearly nock you over in the street because they simply don’t see you. The world revolves around them & random serendipitous occurrences become part of some grand “divine” plan. And the mutual admiration, the “I’ll stroke your ego if you’ll stroke mine” process - it almost makes me ill, especially when I find myself partaking in it. Give me the truth any day, no matter how much it hurts.

Maybe it’s all a self preservation thing, an evolutionary trait – why else would some people feel the need to procreate. Because their child will be “special”, will be “gifted”, will succeed where they have failed & if they don’t? There will simply be excuses. Maybe they’re right; after all it seems like a majority of the human race functions in this way. But isn’t this how we got ourselves into such a mess? By wanting more “things” to display our “uniqueness” or to reward our “successes” & it’s usually at the expense of others less fortunate because we want the earth but we don’t want to pay the earth for it! But it does cost the earth, for with the “new” the old gets discarded – and where does it all go to? Think about it – where does it all go to? Suddenly it’s cool to be green but take a closer look & most people are far from it!

All I see is a diffusion of responsibility, which is a strange dichotomy in a world where it’s all about celebrating your own individual “uniqueness” & worth. It’s okay to start my car up to drive 500 metres down the road, it’s okay for me to have 10 minute hot showers & have the heater on every time I get a little bit cold. Most of the time the only way these individual behaviours get challenged is if they are impeded by cost, like the hikes in fuel prices for example. Maybe my thought processes are all askew…….maybe that is why most people choose to view their life as something sacred & to me it is a precarious thing that is perhaps no more important than the next, not in the big scheme of things anyhow. How is it that we can say "I am only one" yet in the same breath be convinced "I am the only one"? Strange isn't it.

Even by writing this blog I am in a sense contradicting the very thing I am saying! I am assuming there will be an audience, for if I was to say that I write it purely for myself I would be a liar. And what is it that I want from the audience......an argument?.....approval? or just the need to express the "I" - the super-ego, despite all conscious effort, still enslaved by the ego & it's puppet master the id.