We are all given the gift of life once. At birth, if we make it that far, we are given our one chance at existence, our one shot at happiness, success, and ability. Most people have parents, or at least one, to which they can liken themselves to, and some are left without, to fend for themselves.
But we all, from the first moments of consciousness have choices to make. We can chose whether or not to curb our tendency to throw food or to draw on the wall. From an elementary age, we form the people that we will be.
We are all given the same basic abilities: senses, reason, and strength.
All human beings have these inherent abilities at birth. All human beings are created equal.
In childhood, we are all told at one time or another by adults to “get your head out of the clouds” and to “stop talking nonsense” whenever we start to dream of the “unattainable” or the “lofty”. We are told to forget these “childish dreams”. We are told to “come back to earth”.
But when we do this, when we forget our unattainable dreams and give up our lofty goals, which most of us do, we lose the greatest part of us. We put down the source of our livelihood and endanger our own lives.
You see, the society that we live in is afraid. It is terrified of the unknown, and the un-understandable. It runs from the first sign of anything out of the ordinary, and never seems to stop running.
But our society has no idea what is understandable and what is not. It has this belief that almost nothing is understandable. Therefore whatever they do not understand is terrible, whatever is foreign, is disgusting and whatever is new is crazy.
Now our society tries to put down these dreams and so-called unattainable goals, our creativity. It scares them that there is something new and foreign, and also it reminds them that they were never able to achieve their own goals and dreams.
This process has occurred on a massive scale and is passed down in each generation. One generation stifles the creativity of the next generation and that generation does the same thing to the next one, and what happens is that we all become more and more like the next guy, like copies, like automatons, like victims.
From childhood, we start a pattern of choosing life and creativity and happiness, or we choose death mediocrity and a life-long state of melancholy.
It is a decision, that only a person can make, not society not parents, not friends, therefore nobody else can be blamed for anyone’s inability or faults except that person. Nobody can claim that society ‘put them down’ or that they were ‘just a victim of circumstance’. Nobody can claim that they weren’t given a chance: they were.
The chance, the chance of a decision, is given. And the only decision to make is whether or not to be a copy, a victim.
The only question left to ask is, are you a victim?
