Wouldn’t it be great if we all just got along? I mean really got along. The kind of getting along where we’re not just looking for a fight.. I mean a scuffle between friends or family is one thing, but beating a co-worker to death is another, or randomly punching a stranger to show off to your friends.
How does that make you cool? Or bad-ass? You know what would make you legit, going toe to toe with a person who knows you’re trying to fight them. Even that though, as a test of athletic ability yes, but when it goes too far you need to stop. Not, “Oh fuck that guy(random dude), I’m gonna kick his teeth in because he looked at me funny/disrespected me/cut me off/ *add whatever other stupid reason here*
I don’t know…
It just seems weird. We all get mad, we all hold a little bit of a grudge, we are all just human. Right? I mean we are all human. I know there are long lasting feuds and there are power struggles, religious conflicts, political conflicts, whatever conflicts. Boil it down though.
Do you want to die? Probably not. Do you want anyone in your family to die? Ehh, that’s a touchy one. How about Do you want ANYONE you care about to die? Probably not.
lets rephrase that… DO you want to be killed? No. Do you want anyone you care about to be killed? No. I guarantee most people feel that same way. Everyone is something to someone else. So when you take someone’s life or hurt someone… you’re hurting a brother, you’re killing a friend, you’re maiming a mom, a dad, a sister, a daughter. You get the picture.
Put the shit in perspective. Think collectively. Now there are crazy people. Defend yourself, within reason, but your average bloke is just that. An average dude. I don’t go around wanting to kill people.
Violence begets violence, but it doesn’t have to. We have to end the cycle. Gang wars, family wars, religious wars. We killed your people because you killed mine? I took your eye because you took mine, I took your tooth because you took mine…. Where does that get us? Blind, toothless, and dead. At least there won’t be any cavities or cataracts…
In all seriousness though. There’s a reason I stopped watching the news(whether that’s the appropriate thing to do or not), this world has gone crazy. Yes it’s better than it was. War was sport. Peasants lives were meaningless. At this point though, it shouldn’t just be getting better, it should be gone.
We spent thousands of years slowly progressing, crawling, as infants our species could barely function(disagree with me or whatever this is an analogy) As time progressed we grew up a little, we’re walking around, able to feed ourselves, to almost get what we want, but we have tantrums. We get irrationally angry and throw fits, throw blocks at the other toddlers. Then we went to school. we had this explosion of knowledge. We learned how to spell, and read, and write. To speak and communicate ideas. To create art! We made friends, but we hated the kids that were weird. We were conditioned to dislike the ones that stood out. We entered junior high and started playing with some serious science. Burnt a classmate on accident and started a fight. Now he’s standing in the corner holding a glass bottle filled with something bad enough to have a skull and crossbones on it. Shit got real. We have the tools to kill everyone at once and it’s two 12 year old kids staring each other down with deadly chemicals in hand.
That’s where we’re at now. Just about anyways. Just a bunch of kids with irrational anger and frustration. We need to snap out of it and realize we’re on the brink of a self imposed extinction.
Set down the weapons, let go of the anger, and just hug it out.
I’ll just sit back here singing that song in my head while whistling out loud… why can’t we be friends?
Go hawks.
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