A Little Hope Goes A Long Way

When did we get so screwed up? I can't fathom why the world we have developed as a society is so outrageously inhumane. It seems as if this past month I learn about some new horror every week. I'm not talking about serial murders or crimes committed in the cities. Although, they are horrible. I'm talking about genocide and gross inhumanities.

I just finished watching Hotel Rwanda this afternoon. My heart broke. Between Rwanda, Iraq, and North Korea and then the history of humankind having event after event of this kind over and over again. It's a wonder we're still here.

I daydream about being able to save more, or even being able to talk sense into those who are killing: the suicide bombers, the extremeists from the wars, the soldiers of North Korea who don't know any better.

I daydream about being able to break the tedium with something surprising: Bunches of Sunflowers and Lavendar colored flowers admist green foliage for those men and women in the desert who are used to the color of dust and clay and sand. Booming explosives that don't end in destruction and death but instead, harmless yet brilliant sparks of celebration that fill the sky with beauty and awe and a reminder of the Fourth of July. Freedom and Independence.

I daydream about Rainforests and Icecaps that aren't disappering into nothingness while people either don't care; care but don't know what to do; or care and yet their cries fall upon deaf ears, blind eyes, and minds that are swirling with all the problems and troubles of their own lives that they choose not to take in one more thing. One more thing they feel they cannot control.

I daydream about not being one of these people and yet I know I am. It pains me to know this and pains me worse to accept it.

The idealist within me sees a future where there's hope. There's change. The realist within me knows that people hate change. We adapt but not without crying, whining, making it more painful than it should be, or fighting it with our last breath. And to make the change that's needed to become a world where this rant isn't pertinent or valid would be inconvenient to the lives of most and thus it won't come.

I don't know which will win. I hope it's the first. A little hope goes a long way.