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The Human Condition
When you look outside your window, the external world might seem normal to you...,
ordinary...,
safe...
Upon looking closer through that invention called the television,...you find a different kind of reality...
A reality that challenges the norm...
A reality that forces insanity for the means of survival...
The shooting bullets from all those wars...,
from all those invasions....,
penetrate the false walls of safety that you've been building...,
mainly within your mind...
Your personal world becomes challenged...
Your soul becomes heavy...
The wanting to just be shallow increases...,
as an equivalency to normality...
Confusion seeps through your pores...
The pain depletes your motivation to go on...
You lose sight of your journey...,
Almost voluntarily...
Every day presents you with a renewed test of survival...,
because that's what being human has become all about...
Freedom...,
Equality...,
Justice...,
Humility...,
Dignity...,
Respect...,
Empathy...,
Have all become empty concepts...,
better used for deception...,
more used in research...,
never truely taught...,
never fully realized...,
in non-existence...
With each passing day the world seems more full of confusion...,
because that is what humans have made of this world...,
of themselves...
They have built an empire of internal terrorism...,
A kingdom of intimidation...,
A dynasty of consternation.
Written by The Reflecting Beginner
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