Our whole lives, I feel as though we’ve been waiting.  Waiting for something to happen.  This sense of…. urgency or pending doom.  Waiting for the next big natural disaster; or for the next fatal diagnosis.  Waiting for the next Michael Jackson, or JFK to appear on the scene and then disappear just as suddenly.   Waiting for future weapons of mass destruction to be released, or for marjuana to be legalized.  Or the unexpected suicidial tendencies people find themselves in.  Whichever side of the world you’re on, you’re waiting for something un certain, and any minute your paradigm could shift.

So what is that ONE thing that YOU are waiting for?  Once identified, then we must ask ourselves “are we fighting for it”.  While I hate to use the word fighting, we will substitute “working”.  What are you WORKING towards, so that the world can be a better place for  the future generations?  Some pick a small cause, and help non profits of choice raise tax-exempt funds for specific organizations.  Some people rally politically, writing letters to senators or marching on steps.  Some people settle apathetically for complacency, assuming the world will never change, and we should just enjoy the state it’s in while we can.  But I refuse to sit by complacently.

Me, I’ve always been an optimist.  I’ve always had high hopes for my life – our life.  This life.  Life is a gift, and every moment of joy is not to be taken for granted.  If you were given the opportunity to make someone’s day better, would you take it?  If you knew that SOMEHOW, by making others feel better, you TOO would feel better, as a person.   Spreading hope for humanity.  If every person on this earth’s mission was to turn to their neighbor, and make them smile, or offer them a hand when they need it …..  I can only imagine what this world would look like.

And I do imagine.  Every day.  Wondering “WHAT IS IT THAT WE ARE WAITING FOR?”.  Why can’t we have it NOW?   Why CAN’T the government put an end to war and violence?  Why can’t corporations decide to FEED people rather than take from their customers and deplete resources.  Why CAN’T there be a DEMAND for high quality food and water that makes us healthier and holier rather than sick.  There is a line to be drawn, a line stating what the people will allow, and what standards we will simply refuse to live with.

Most days I wonder, what is it we are waiting for?  And I have to remind myself…. we are WAITING for OURSELVES to step up and stand up for the causes we believe in.  To be the people we KNOW we are capable of being.  To continue this forward profession as a group of humans; whatever your community.  To start a movement that will transcend time and space and common sense.  To declare love and freedom and free food and free healthcare is for all free men on earth.  To demand a sense of unity and RESPECT for all living creatures, that works both ways.

And I will not sit by quietly until we are ALL on the same page.  You don’t have to like everyone you know, or every decision.  But we do have to realize at some point that we are all human, and we are all stuck on this planet, so we better start with some respect.

I propose a campaign, one of a simple regime: Random acts of kindness.  Let your life surround around that.   And eat your heart out.  What’s next?

Love all ways,
MissConnection