TAKE A LEAP

What partnership is worthy of its name? I see tee-shirts, caps, bumper stickers, logos, and slogans all over the place. Is that it?

A wedding ring? A house? Schools with excellent credential for your kids while others belong to a lower world? Activities? Opportunities to form ties with other kids? Team sports? If you look closely and find all of these to be empty promises made to trap you into a marketplace of fake shit will you go?

Ask this: is a real partner, one who will stand by me, going to wear a tee-shirt stating that with artwork? Can you tell real partnership as easily as two wolves meeting in the wild? Ever try to put a tee-shirt on a wolf?

Now, I now that people at large do seek with all their might to join with others in some common purpose and are willing to lay down the lives of their youngsters to serve that. It is obviously in us. We go to such incredible lengths to show it. Boys go out for football teams with completely arbitrary colors and flags and uniforms and bands and cheerleaders and stadium lights. Others try show business in every way imaginable. People with talent useful in some trendy new business field are hailed as champions, paid huge salaries, and given wads of capital by investors to startup a corporation and hire workers to join them as a team to make money. Why? Really? Why?

Is there one person on the planet now who is inclined even to find a life...find one... that exists for that very person since the beginning with no thought for tomorrow? After all, tomorrow creeps in its petty pace from day to death...

Can you imagine a wolf that cannot understand what matters most to it and follow it naturally? What made us decide to follow a contrived plan for life? And to prefer it? It is so entrenched now it is a wonder anyone can stop. Too late? Look, I am not comparing you to a wolf out of blindness. I know you are not a wolf. I am not a wolf. I am searching for a natural being, and we all were once just that...only that. The wolf is a metaphor.

Instead, think of some human being you know about or have heard about who you think may have been loyally following his of her own inner drummer all the way. Study that life. Like your own life depends upon it, study. If you cannot think of such a person, study the life of Woody Guthrie. You have to decide. Is it wise to allow myself to be advertised as a celebrity by a club of fools who do what they do for money? Is it wise to go to a doctor who practices medicine for money?

I am asking whether you believe you have an innate ability to discern from out of the crowd a person who serves no one else's agenda and to partner with such a person for an unknown journey day-by day?

What is certain is you will never know unless you take a leap.