When we were young we had such great ambitions for our species. It was as if we were born to accomplish great things. I suppose each generation of young people come into this existence with the vision to change what currently is into something resembling what should be. By the time we get to middle age though it seems that we have settled for what is and want no more to do with the vigor of our youthful ambitions. We have settled into a truce with our selves and our surroundings to just go with the flow and let what isn't right exist. A resignation of spirit on our part. We have decided that, through strategic calculations that promote our own self, we would rather just not try to change things that we have learned to manipulate and co-exist with. Our idealism is now a negative that must not be addressed. Through becoming immune to inequality and injustice, we have effectively abrogated our rights to fight for virtuous honors. We have settled for lesser though the knowledge of that is less recognized on purpose. We actually begin to construct arguments to justify our lack of care and concern for what is right. Although we may seem to have soothed our conscious, all we have done is expose it for having no more soul. It seems to me that those many who have taken to less as a way of life have left the arena of being human to those of us who will not settle for less, but instead want more from life. The human experiment is not a patterned map, it has so many variations to it but two things for sure it does have in common with all of us is our care and curiosity. Although our curiosity may wane at times, it just seems that our care needs to have a greater say in who we are and who we should be.
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