Once upon a time, I was a positive person. It is not that I am not a positive person now but perhaps, my focus has shifted to take in more of the world, or at least, a fuller slice of perspective than I had previously taken. My view may have been too narrow and although I was seen in a generally good, happy-go-lucky light, it never really got me where I wanted to be going.
It is a funny paradox isn't it? People want to be surrounded by smiles and positive vibes but, when they are they take them for granted and limit their ability to enact chance. For the most part in this world, happy people affect very little. At least, publicly happy people. I remember being told by someone close to me many years ago to "smile less" as smiling people are untrustworthy. I thought it was funny at the time but under consideration, he was right.
How can someone smile when they have seen the mess, pain and suffering of this world? They are either blind to it or, sadists. There are many blind to be sure, those who bury their head in the sands of entertainment and distraction like addicts laying on the soiled mattresses of a drug den. There are also many sadists who take pleasure from inflicting pain on others.
The worst sadists in my opinion are not the ones to cause physical pain, it is the ones who take those who are trying their best to help make the world a little better and crushing their spirit. It is heartbreaking to see so much opportunity wasted through passivity and greed. The sadists know about greed well yet they veil it behind what they claim as 'reality' and 'the system allows it'.
Reality is what is but what it is always changing, always shifting and what is today could be obliterated tomorrow yet, in terms of humanity, the obliteration is a slow process of inaction. The system allows it is another poor position as the system can change, but, only when the system does change. Unfortunately, the sadists seem to want the system to stay the same as it benefits them. Greed.
I think that this is the largest disappointment I have had here, that people who claimed to be different, like minds looking to create a world of less suffering are no better than the world of the present full of sadists looking to inflict pain on anyone trying for new. Perhaps that is a worse suffering than the reality of the other world as it crushes the last pieces of hope and causes the last curl of lips to fade.
Maybe that is the beauty and terror Da Vinci caught in Mona Lisa as she witnessed the reality that no matter her hopes, dreams and views of the future, it takes a community to change and unfortunately, the sadists make the rules and hold them in place through their ridicule of those who are trying to play for improvement.
The smile may be close to gone but, the head is yet to be buried in the sand. As painful as reality is and as filled with suffering the path may be, change is always possible.
Until it is not.
Taraz
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