We are the trees trying to grow. When we turn a majority of our time and
attention to the media, especially those at young ages, we are looking in its
direction to give seeds of growth. Many
times, this natural search for seeds is taken advantage of by advertisers and
corporations. Making this statement
seems as if I am pointing fingers. But who am I pointing fingers towards? I am pointing fingers at the advertisers and
these corporations. Well, who are they? They are us, and we are them. We have created and condoned this behavior. We are the ones who work for these
corporations, and we are the ones who try to build these advertisements. We are the ones with the power to create
images of an ideal reality. We are the
ones who are responsible for our future as well as for our children’s.
I
feel its time we begin to act on the answers to our happiness. I must emphasize the word “our” here because
we can do our best to convince ourselves of our own personal
happiness without looking in the mirror.
…
We
need to take good a look in the mirror and truly tell ourselves what we see.
But wait a second. Before you head over to the bathroom mirror, let me send you
in a different direction where the mirror might not be fogged up. Let’s take a look out the front door. This is where you can find the truth of YOUR
happiness. Take a good look at our culture, our youth, and our future. Do you like what we see? If not, well, what should we do? Do what comes naturally. What can we do to change?
…
If we want to change, we must turn our
attention to not only what we are giving off but also what we are
receiving. It may help to view our
children's brains as we do their stomachs. Ask the same questions. Is this too spicy? Am I feeding them too
much? Is it too late to be eating? Will this be hard to digest? Will this help them grow up to be strong and
healthy? Now take this same analogy of
viewing their eyes and ears as their mouths. Do these visual components help
their growth now or in the future?
So maybe I only talk to the souls of
the few who are aware of this numbing of the human spirit by the media. The
soulful few continue to take great pride in their abilities to taste the love
found in the food or energy they consume.
Maybe these fearless few can cook up some love not only for themselves
but for others. Changing the taste
continues to become ever so challenging as today’s appetites for love are
slowly ceasing. The taste for love is often lost in favor of the flavor of the
day. Love might be the taste, but the
flavor is often one of fear. We
ultimately hold the power to can change the flavor of fear in efforts to
stimulate our natural tastes for love. I might speak of the powers that “be,”
but who is this “be?”
The
powers that “be” are we, me, he, and she.
It’s up to us make the choice to
change these artificial flavors of fear into the natural flavors of love
because there isn’t anything like the real thing. Anything less is just
recycled from the presently over-stocked factory of fear.
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