THE POWER WE POSSESS

Sometimes I believe lies. Lies that say individuals don’t change anything. Lies that say giving is only okay when receiving. Lies that say we don’t possess power to give significance to our reality or say we are passive participants in our world. Lies that create problems like poverty, lies that leave people alone, sick and poor. The thing about these lies is that they create a lifestyle that is based of falsehood, an entire existence based on lies. These lies tell me to forget about suffering and to strive for comfort, lies that tell me to run for achievement and run away from challenge. These lies perpetuate complacency, self-pity and the need to only have immediate gratification. The more I discover these lies and can recognize them for what they are the more my hope for the future grows. Not hope that world will somehow be cured of its ailments but hope that I possess power to affect my reality and the reality of those around me. Everyday I wake up and enter into a battle with myself to turn from these lies and to run towards the truth that we are to love people around us. The truth is love is harder than it seems and I’m not so good at it but now that I have seen love I will never go back to having comfort in these lies. Through failure and frustration I will not go back to accepting the lies.