(#5774) What hellscape world do you allow yourself to live in?

     If you won't stand up for what is good for all then you cannot complain about the hellscape that you let happen. The word no one wants to hear is cowardice. But in so many cases it is exactly the word that defines too many of our actions/non actions. What we want for ourselves should be what we want for everyone. Fighting for that principle is what makes us heroes. But it seems being a hero is not enough incentive to do the correct thing. I cannot tell you the depth of my sadness that we Americans had such an easy choice to make to fulfill so many of our hopes and dreams for all of us and instead choose to make life harder for too many of us. To me it is incomprehensible.
     We all have a choice to be good decent human beings without our prejudices dominating us. But we are our own worst enemies. Too many of us do not allow ourselves to be educated enough to be thoughtful about what good could happen if we just allowed the best of who we are as human beings caring and curious, to be our number one concern. Instead we want what is not as good for all of us so that we individually feel safer as if it were an all or nothing option. So cowardice prevails and heroic deeds are scoffed at as foolish. Well what is foolish is living as a hollow person instead of as a fulfilled one. I know my emotions dominate my life and for me to live as a coward is akin to not living at all. For me to live as a hero at minimum justifies what good I know resides in me.
     To spend a life hiding from our fears is not living, it is a strategy to avoid fighting for what is the best we humans might do. I am ashamed to say that too many of my fellow American citizens are cowards in their approach to living their lives and forming the society I reside in. They see their own lives as more important than the lives of the rest of us. I and many like me see that protecting all lives is actually protecting our own. So if protecting your life is your number one goal then hiding and join the rest of us and help protect all life. It is the noble and heroic thing to do and will actually make you feel like you deserve the life you are living.