The wrong vision hurts us all (#1126)

There are those among us who see a future that does not exemplify freedom, liberty, justice and equality. Those who do not have these principles at the heart of their vision for our future are doing us all a disservice. Those who have had the benefit of education and security from social ills are in a unique position to champion rights for those who are less benefited in the areas of education and security. Yet for so many who are rightly positioned, they seem to want to exclude themselves from those who are not. A distinction that has such descriptors as elitism and class based social structure. it is the bane of the less than courageous to opt for security from our species instead of creating security for all of us. The vision that hurts us the most is the one that looks inward and glorifies the individual without also attaching real priority to looking outside and creating room for the community of people as well. I am not against individualism but it must always be tempered with community. Both go hand in hand in our society. As well as in our psychology. We are human and in need of human contact. Not just certain human contact but the wide varieties of human contact that can only be found in the world at large. The great achievement of our species is our ability to communicate with each other regardless of geographical, social. economical and philosophical origin. To be less the ingredient in the pot and more the one standing outside of it and only stirring, we deny our nature to live life in the moment and experience the unexpected circumstances that make up the really relevant stories in our lives. Fear has much to do with our inward caving but fear is a thief and the time we spend in it is time we will never get back. Finding the vision that creates what's best for us does not include fear.