October 10, 2023 – A

Being the right kind of people
is well within our reach,
yet far exceeds our grasp,
as Abraham Heschel might have said.

We have better things to do.

Being the right kind of people
gets in our way.
Asks hard things of us.
Is always inconvenient
and an imposition
of outlandish proportions.

We aren't interested.

Lazy and lethargic 
and not interested.

Yet, we want things to be better
than they are.

That is true of every human being 
everywhere
from the beginning of human beings.
And it is always someone else
we want to change in relation to us,
never us that we want to change
in relation to someone else.

Let THEM do all the changing
to make US happy!
Or we will declare war on them
if they don't!

Declaring war is our go to solution
for everything.
Never mind that it has never worked
for long,
and likely never will
unless it is the total nuclear variety
and completely exterminates the species.

That probably would work for a long time.

In the meantime we will all continue to say,
"YOU have to change in order for ME to be happy.
Or else!"

If we spent as much effort 
in the service of being the right kind of people,
as we do in making war,
we wouldn't recognize the place.
And everything would wonder,
"What is going on?"

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