There is something eerie when you
are not blind yet cannot see, or cannot see clearly. Like in a dark room, or
when the sun flashes suddenly in your eyes and you’re left blind for a few seconds
until your eyes adjust. That feeling of helplessness. Feeling powerless to what
is surrounding you. You end up freezing in your place, rubbing frantically at
your eyes. Hoping to get your sight back. You panic for a moment with the
instincts of a prey on a tree full of hawks. It is an instinct that we as
humans are born with, and is instilled in our minds from our human heritage. This
instinct does not only affect our eyes though. It affects our mind and spirit
just as our eyes in the face of confusion and disorientation. Our instinct then
kicks in and freezes us and our thoughts.
Imagine a person who stands under
a heavy waterfall. How the force of water hammers at him endlessly until he is
on his knees and is unable to stand. This is our personalities in the face of
endless challenges and struggles with coping up with the chaotic times that we
live in. we stand confused and paralyzed like lost children wondering where is
the ceiling and the floor. The greatest of challenges facing us in these times
must be the ever continuous questions about morality. It is the fact that we
were always taught by our parents and our guardians which is right from wrong,
yet we grow up and are forced to unlearn all that was taught to us in hopes of
surviving within society. It is a great difficulty to go against all your
beliefs and values and even more difficult to dismiss those beliefs and values
as being wrong and replacing them with the exact opposite.
Just take a long hard look at the
faces of those around you on the road, at work or anywhere among the crowds. You
will see the lines of hardships covering the faces of those that pass you by. Lines
that were drawn by facing those questions of societal survival on a daily basis.
The empty looks of those who wonder in hopes of finding distractions or better
yet, finding the answers to the chaos in their minds.
The lines of society are ever
shifting and ever illusive. It is set by those who remain silent when they see
the road leads to chaos. We as humans face questions bigger than ourselves, and
if we wish to reach an answer then we must evolve to become just as big as or
even bigger than those questions. In the meantime, we must bring up every ounce
of strength we possess and endure the waterfall. Open our eyes as wide as we
can, and look upon the lines that separate sanity from insanity.
