Carpe Diem: The New Revolution

Maybe Darwinism is real. Maybe Jesus is Lord. Maybe we do get reincarnated. Maybe we enter the ‘void’ of nothingness. Maybe you don’t care where you’re from or where you’ll go. Maybe we are looking at the same thing differently. Instead of the things that separate us, like faith, spirituality, sexual preferences, gender, age, race or whatever else it might be, we are human and in that sense, we will always be the same.

Whether we have or have not evolved from monkeys and apes, we always distant ourselves from animals. It seems the only thing humans and animals have in common are out five senses and the urge to reproduce (in most cases). I’d like to think that a world without humans would be the ultimate Garden of Eden. No intelligence, arrogance or pride to destroy forests, valleys and the purest of blue skies.

Inattentively, over time humans considered their existence timeless. We made ourselves eternal at the cost of having our surroundings suit us and all other forms of life had been dubbed not extensive enough to be cared about, and so they die. We say ‘The’ world because there is only one. Civilization shows the separation of ourselves and the overall ‘want’ for something more. Be it more land, a higher status, excess money, we all crave something more. Instead of existing to follow an endless line of trends from an endless line of followers, why don’t we detract to something more personal or even more beneficial? We choose to thrive for more in all the wrong areas.

I want you to join a revolution. Just like decades ago, where wars doused the skies in black smoke, hippies slid roses into gun barrels, people protested, walls were pushed over and politicians mouths left ajar without a hint of comprehension as to what his people wanted. It’s as if when the Beatles released their last album, when Bob Dylan left the microphone stand or even when the influence and stage presence from Nirvana had ceased, once the bands went so did the crowd.

It is in my personal and best interest to inherit a care for the world and its inhabitants. Don’t take my words as an ‘action’, the action never left. Wars continue and so does the blabber of politicians, the skies are stained, the waters rising and time is escaping us all. This message is just awareness. This is me letting you know that I want to do something. Everything you know, everything you ever learning in school cannot compare to the things that you teach yourself. Where did the desire to nurture one another come from? I can’t be sure, but I’ll embrace it. It could be a human instinct placed into our minds by the hand of God or perhaps we had adopted our ways from animals and their families. Text book knowledge and worldly knowledge are two different things. Text books cannot emphasize heart strains, tragedies and triumphs. It is you. This is your life and the world is at your feet, not your shoulders. You are the difference and together we are the change.

I want you to feel empowered. I want you to pick someone up when they are down. Everybody is fighting a battle, even you, together we can overcome anything. There are two things we need in life: knowledge and experience. So learn as much you can, never stop learning. Then with your knowledge I implore you to graze your knees, get your hands dirty, push yourself to the edge and question all your answers. I want you to question exactly what you are doing, why you are doing it and most of all I want you to question yourself. Are you happy the way you are? Every time you oppose yourself from a mirror, is it you or an image of somebody you are trying to be?

Nobody should ever feel worthless, hopeless or alone. Nobody should ever feel poverty-stricken, starved or suffered. I’ve cast an oath to do everything I can possibly do to make a difference in this world, because the things I’ve seen, the utmost cruelty and hatred that flows through so many individuals veins is enough for me to stop cursing at the television screen and go to the source of these problems.

Last week I was minding my own business eating a sandwich that my mother had made and a man came up to me with a McDonalds bag offering it to me. I refused, I had food but he simply replied “if you don’t like it, throw it away.” Soon after the man vanished and I was left with a medium sized Big Mac meal. I struggled to eat the chips and drink but eventually proved victorious. However I was left with a burger. I dragged my feet to bin and stared at the lid, “what a waste” I say to myself. I walk past the bin and out onto the street, there’s a man sitting at a bench, his clothes stained with what appears to be irremovable black marks, he had a grayed beard and also seemed to adopt a barrier or force field in which no person would dare penetrate. It was the type of invisible barrier that indicated that he was a threat to our society. I decided to walk through this barrier and I offered him the burger. Of course he took it and a smile stretched across his face. We had a brief conversation and I ventured off into the library.

My actions that day were rewarding to me, but they would not have been existent if it weren’t for that man. So your first step is to simply do something nice. You never know where it may lead. I fed a homeless man and the feeling that is inherited from that action cannot be put into words. So please, if you are the hopeful, loving and caring individual you are then act.

You don’t need to save a world to be a hero, your words may give life to someone, your presence may give someone purpose, your love will be the movement in someone else’s life. You are needed in this world and you are loved.

(I'd also like to welcome Miki to the AYWF!! Make yourself at home! :D)