"I am leaving this legacy to all of you, to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfilment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace."
-Rosa Parks, 1988

So many people walk around in the world without vision. They don't want to look forward, but rather they stagnate on the past, gripping it like a security blanket. They focus on the past misdeeds, the past wrongs, the past misfortune. We cannot change the past. At least not the truth of it. Paper record can always be forged, changed and manipulated, but luckily I don't think Big Brother is watching over us quite that badly yet. I could be wrong though.

It is up to us to reach out with vision and see what our lives and the lives of those around us could be. What can be and what should be. In the end, most people all have the same goals: happiness, personal well-being (financial, emotional and physical), security (physical, emotional and financial) etc. Listen to the speaches of the leaders of the world to their people. Most say the same things. Most have the same views if they are willing to look at the larger picture instead of the narrow past that consumes them.

"I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will. " Do you know who said that? Most people would bet on Roosevelt or Churchill. Well, those people would be wrong. That was said by Joseph Stalin. While many people see him as a monster, in the end he honestly believed he was doing what was right for Russia. He wanted to acquire the same thing everyone else had: happiness, security, well-being.

The world is full of hatefilled people. Their vision currupted by the past, by the past wrongs done unto them and their people. There comes a point when you have to let go and turn your sights forward. You have to realize that maybe, that isn't what our lives should be. That perhaps, we can change and look to what they can be. We have to share a common vision, a common goal and I think most people do, even though they summon the vision under different names.

People should stop being so concerned about being right. In the end being right means nothing. It gives no warmth in the night and it doesn't create happiness. I suppose though, it is too hard to look outside yourself.

Its far to hard to see how our lives should be.

Posted by Utopia at October 25, 2005 08:15 AM

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