The boardwalk in Seaside Park burnt almost in its entirety
today. What was left of the original boards after Hurricane Sandy.
Maybe this is a sign of new beginnings. It makes me want to set the world on
fire and watch all the past blow away like ashes while we rise up like a phoenix.
If this was Captain Planet we’ve got Water, the flood, Earth, the earthquake,
Fire, obviously, and Air, the hurricane covered. Now we just need Heart and we’ll
be good to go. All that is left after all of the destruction is heart. No one
was hurt which is really the most important thing.
How can you quantify in
words what it feels like to see your world, everything you once knew so well,
burn? When I started a blog about politics and global news I never thought
there would be so many local news events to center my writing around. This would
probably seem a lot worse had the hurricane not reminded us that humans always
rebuild, that’s what we do. Fantastical changes to the landscape and the souls
of the people I know.
Reality is more than my imagination can create. The
events of our time often leave me wondering, is this real life? My dreams feel
insane and dramatic but when I am awake is when the real drama transpires. I
can always tell dreams for what they are. I am with the wrong beings, wearing
the wrong clothes, in strange places I’ve never seen.
It is always reality that
takes what’s familiar and turns it upside down in ways unimaginable until they
are reality. When days like today happen it is easy to remember tomorrow can be a
better day. The sun will come out tomorrow.
Critical ugly people become more
obvious when tragedy strikes. Some may be speechless. Some may be hopelessly
optimistic that we will recover. They are right, people always recover. Some
people just can’t help themselves but to bring other people down. Those people
aren’t worth having a place in your life until they learn otherwise. If they
never learn otherwise they will always be the souls isolated and dragging the
rest of humanity down. I am grateful to know so many beautiful beings that my
life is always filled with possibilities even on the most seemingly awful
horrid days.
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