Hope Attained?

Hopelessness is a disease that will kill a healthy mind. It is such an effective killer that no matter the rate in which it spreads, as long as it is able to spread, it will mean certain death to the individual affected.

So why feed it? Why allow it to cripple and take from you everything precious and dear?

When the expectations we have of what life should be versus what life actually is are so drastic it is easy to look away. Cause the less we deal with the reality of the gap that is the difference the easier things can feel momentarily. The truth is the knowledge of things not being the way they should be doesn't disappear. It's not, 'out of sight out of mind'. The reality of life is that anything that once existed doesn't cease existing it just can change forms. Even when you Die your body becomes ashes (I won't be discussing the soul, because as far as I know, we have beliefs. Our current technology doesn't enable us to ID the soul in a traceable and identifiable manner separately of the body that we are aware of.) I know that if my grandmother's grave was dug up you would find dust that had her genetic material to say that was previously her body. Ok, let us get back on track. 

You can't outrun the gap of your expectations and your reality it's wishful thinking, delusional, and the beginning of an unstable mind. What am I saying?

 "DON'T RUN, STOP!" 

A kindergarten teacher yells this at her student. She has the expectation that the student will behave and respond as requested by stopping. Yes as we know children have far less self-control than an adult. So the Kindergarten teacher will face the reality of the child's bad behavior if the child fails to stop. That she will hopefully address it appropriately. Cause if she ignores a child who has chosen to continue after being asked to stop it will obviously lead to results she was attempting to avoid. It could lead to the safety of the child being compromised and so on and so forth. I'm asking that if every human on this earth simply faced that reality in their lives of the things that are going wrong head-on even if they don't have a solution but simply acknowledge, the child did not stop, and things aren't the way they should be or need to be. Our expectation as a society is that the Kindergarten teacher's response to the child with ants in their pants is kind and appropriate to the situation at hand and not reflective of her judgment of the child or assumptions of the situation but what is actually occurring. We would hope that she was in an alert state of mind and ready to spring to keep the child safe or whatever she could do to protect the child while keeping her other students safe as well.  

Let's as a race be better humans with less ants in our pants and STOP when asked to stop. 

When I was a child, 

I spoke as a child, 

I understood as a child,

 I thought as a child;

 but when I became a man, 

I put away childish things

-1 Corinthians 13:11

 (From one of the oldest books in the world)

Just saying, 'with age comes wisdom'.