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.
