Am I awake or is this just a dream? I will make a list of all the places i feel alone, and at the top i shall put in the arms of the world. How is it that no matter how many people we surround ourselves with we still feel alone. We drown ourselves in beer and feed off of our self righteous hate for those happy near us, yet shouldn't the mere fact of those closest to us achieving their "Perfect self" make us feel a bit grateful? A good friend of mine sent me a link to a video on you tube telling of a wonderful tale out at u.s.c, here's my question, Isn't the lack of faith the reason the holy are becoming more faithful and the unholy more evil? Or is it just a cause and effect relationship? What i mean by this relationship is that we all want to believe that we are here for a reason, to do good onto others and to ourselves. To respect thy self and thy neighbor? To reiterate on what i said a couple of sentences ago or to ask another question Is the reason the faithful look to the heavens because they don't want to believe there is no higher power? Is it true that the people in this world who say god is a joke and who say well if god is true then why can't he help everybody or give mere presence of his existence, that these people are just people who can't accept the responsibility of faith? Or to turn the tables are the faithful and the religious just not willing to take on their share of humility? The answer my friends is that we are all human and we take to the beliefs we feel a connection to. Just because the drug addict would rather shoot up on some crank and have these drugs in his body rather then the blood of Christ does that mean he is any worse then the lady with the bible on the corner trying to spread the word of the old testament so she can feel a sense of being and not have the feeling of loneliness possess her as if the good book has excised her of her demons? But for every question there is an answer, and for that answer there is yet another question; let me explain. What i just said could be true or possibly these events may take place, the drug addict may stumble upon the old lady on the corner, acquire the good book and read the faith back into his heart. At the same time the women may have an epiphany in seeing the junkie and think what a world and go into a downward spiral, giving hand jobs to cops, lawyers, and doctors to get enough money for her new found "faith", a white powdery substance acquired through the nose. The point I'm trying to get at is weather you be christian, catholic, Muslim, Jewish, atheist we are all still bound by humanity. Whether you believe what happens is controlled by someone watching over you from the Skyway, death valley, or Just an accident because you took the long way home it doesn't matter. We need to come together as a people, and I'm not talking black white, Hispanic, I'm not talking democracy and socialism and capitalism, and I'm not talking liberal or conservative or male or female I'm just talking we the people as a whole. You may ask what i mean by that, and that's a good question, what do i mean by that? If i could open up the window to all of the answers I would say join me my friends in all the open miles of the field of dreams. But this panoramic view of what we like to call our pathetic lives is but full of mere hopelessness and loneliness. The view is simple, at one point we are young, people watch us grow, we then gain knowledge yet don't know what to do with it, then as we lay on our death beds, this knowledge all of a sudden makes sense, yet we have no one to pass it on to. We realize that we need such things as faith and we also need the humbleness of feeling human. We can believe in god and that he helped us make the game winning three state championship game senior year at the buzzer, or we can believe it was our hard work paying off... But if on the losing end of life we feel sad, depressed, and want to be left alone. It is these humble feelings of being brought back down to earth that make us come to the conclusion that we all have faith in something. Whether it be god, ourselves, or Humanity, we entrust these feelings to these things (god, ourselves,humanity,etc) Because we want to believe that something happens because of something. My friends I am not a very religious person, my honest opinion is religion helps stop a bunch of stuff (depression,loneliness,sense of worthlessness, sadness) and it also bestows on us great things (pride,togetherness,faith,trust,honesty,Individuality) Yet we don't know how to use our faith (whether it be catholic,Muslim,Jewish, Atheist,etc) and it causes negative things (war,violence,deception,fraud). In closing whether you live by the rules in the good book, or walk the line on the edge of death valley never forget the faithful will stay strong, and the unfaithful will not be silenced
