New Adventures in Materiality

To serve

People in charge. People promoted to top positions. People making decisions for very large sized populations serving under them. People acting as chiefs and commanders under logos and flags. People targeting other people with alienating decisions falling so hard, it creates multi-generational infliction points of the worst kind, call it the betrayal kind, call it total betrayal, as in total war.

People of infamy. Cancer inducing people. People flying so far off, pissing on all others. People so remote from the rest, no one's really sure we're still dealing with humans. But human we are, supposed to be the best, and expected to lift everyone. Then, mostly weak and fallible people we prove to be. Trashing hopes to the ground, tragically incapable of growing beyond our so-called failures.

The real tragedy might be that we're so far remote from one another, so fearful of talking or being talked to, out of character or out of place, so insulated from our own kind, we constantly miss out on the marvels. Because it's so freaking easy. So easy we should never be surprised when one coming to top position most immediate gesture is to fortify and limit its exposure to others, for generations to come.

Then, what if we have it all backward, as in so many things we dabble with? What if our real problem is choosing measurement to some insanely high set of expectations? I mean, our collective written history only goes back so many millennia. Weren't we all living in caves not that long ago? And what about that fear of everyone and everything? Have we forgotten how much we owe those who came before us?

How much we owe everyone who served us a ready made civilization. Something to build on, a world in its own. How much we owe those who are really serving us now. What we owe isn't money, it's recognition. It's respect, it's all long due respect and remembrance. And we owe that to ourselves too. Because we are they, everyone who ever was. We are the alpha and the omega, we are One across all times and places.

So to serve is our real purpose. In times of war as much as in times of peace, until we grow grand enough to only know peace. Until that time, and for all times, we must serve. And hope for the better. And have faith in the fact we'll always have enough, enough to live and beyond. And because I know what we are, I'm calling on everyone to stop fearing, and show some faith. And be One with one another, again.

To serve, only to serve, without asking for anything in return, while having faith we'll always have enough, no matter what, only fearful of fear itself. To serve people, because people we are.