The world is coming to an end.
The air is polluted
The oceans are contaminated
The animals are going extinct
The economy is collapsing
Education is shot
Police are corrupt
Intelligence is shunned
Ignorance is rewarded
The people are depressed in anger
We can’t live with each other and we cant live with ourselves
Everyone is medicated
We pass each other on the streets, and if we do speak it is meaningless
More people want 15 seconds of fame than a lifetime of meaning and purpose
Because….what is popular is more important than what is right.
Ratings are more important than truth
Our government builds twice as many prisons as schools
It is easier to find a Big Mac than an apple
And if you do find that apple, it has been genetically processed and modified
Presidents lie, politicians trick us
Race is still an issue
So is religion
If you disagree with me, I will hurt you….or worse, argue you to death.
92% of songs on the radio are about sex
Kids dont play tag…they play twerk videos
The average person watches 5 hours of TV a day and there is more sex and violence on the screen than ever before
Technology has given us everything we could ever want and at the same time…stolen everything we really need
Pride is at an all time high
Humility is at an all time low
Everybody knows everything, everybody is going somewhere…ignoring someone….blaming somebody
Not many human beings left anymore
Lot of human doings..plenty of human lingerings in the past…not many human beings
Money is still the root of all evil
Yet we tell our kids…dont get that degree, the jobs dont pay enough,
Good deeds are only done if there is a profit margin
Videos of the misfortune of others go viral
We laugh and share them with our friends so they can laugh with us
Our role models today….60 years ago would have been an example of what not to be
Companies invest millions of dollars in specialists to make little girls feel like they need makeup to be beautiful
Permanently lowering their self esteem, because they will never be pretty enough to meet those impossible standards
Corporations tell us buy, buy buy
Get this, get that…you must keep up…you must fit in
This will make you happy, but…..it never does for long
So, what can we do in the face of all this madness and chaos…what is the solution?
We can love
Not the love you hear in your favorite song on the radio
I mean true love, boundless love
Love each other from the moment we wake up until the moment we go to bed
Perform an act of kindness because that is contagious
We can be mindful during every interaction
Planting seeds of goodness
Showing more compassion than usual
We can forgive, because in 300 years will that grudge you hold really have been worth it
Instead of trying to change others, we should change ourselves
Change our hearts
We have been sold lies, brainwashed
Deceived by the leaders we trust, to exhibit to our brother and sisters: anger, hatred, cruelty
But once we truly love
We can meet anger with sympathy
Hatred with compassion
Cruelty with kindness
Love is the most powerful weapon on the face of the earth
Robert Kennedy once said “Few have the power to bend history, but if each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation”
So, if the world is coming to an end….
The path to a new beginning starts within you.
The Unsilent Majority 