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The "What If"
March 3, 2024
Like a scene from the great classic film "Wizard of Oz"...
these times we are living may begin to appear... the same as...
Dorothy going through her front door... and...
passing from... black and white scenes...
to... a vista of color.
Surely we have the technology... to "set mankind free."
Surely we can have a cheap source of electrical power...
surely we have the cures... or the therapies... to heal us...
surely... most of our problems have been solved.
Why are we still living in the dark?
There should be a place where a human being can go...
and feel that freedom... feel that LIFE...
where you answer to NOBODY...
where you can live with... not a care in the world...
feel... a REAL freedom... joyfully...
surely we can have building codes that permit... self built homes...
or municipal codes that allow for a free space to camp.
One day... when I was thinking heavily on these things...
I saw a scene in my mind... of a "downtown" street...
and I was walking towards the bus stop
as the bus was just pulling up to the curb...
and... what might have been a reckless move
with much sidewalk traffic around me...
instead... I found myself... like a dancer in a fish pond...
the timing of my moves on the sidewalk
and the other pedestrians' moves on the sidewalk...
was so perfectly timed... so that there was no trip of foot...
not so much as a bumping... of all of us.
And, oh...!... the timing of my "just making the bus..."
I thought... to live in a perfect world such as that...!
where there ARE no accidents...
no mis-steps to cause harm...
no one was ever hurt... or sick...
no one bumped into ANYONE... and...
JUST as I was adoring the prospect of such a perfect world...
I guess... I mentally puked... or disgorged...
like tasting an overly-sweet taffy...
it was... too much dreamland...
it was... an overdose of happy land...
... you couldn't call it LIFE.
The bumps and the scrapes that we live through each day...
remind us... that... life IS happening... and it's REAL...
and that... our lives belong... to us... to our own selves...
and there are ways to find our own degree of happiness...
based upon what WE value in our lives...
not forever forced into servitude...
To work WHEN we want to work...
To go WHERE we want to go...
without having to answer to anybody...
to live a life where...
OBEDIENCE... is no longer... the mantra...
because... we made it...!
The work is... DONE...!
We're THERE...!
