Some readings that we have to do in school are boring and un-interesting to say the least. This however, was a nice change of pace. I am a person that has always questioned everything in the world just for the shear sake of challenging the truth. Just because someone says that this is the way it is or that this is how things are supposed to be doesn’t make them right. It simply makes them human just like you and I. We all get things wrong from time to time and usually more than we would like to admit. But as a culture we refuse to accept the fact that as a society we have failed each other. It is a very long chain of issues that we started screwing up a very long time ago. Most people grow up to act like their parents did, and their grandparents before that. It takes a special person to grow up to be different from the ones that they are raised by.
Sam speaks about rape and how we don’t talk about it or teach our kids enough to be weary of everyone they meet. How we shadow them from a dirty murderous history that somehow we have justified in most peoples minds. How people are embarrassed by feelings and showing them. How one crying poet can make a whole room uncomfortable. We have been desensitized to feeling and emotion. I remember as child being told that men don’t cry and to toughen up. I’ll be the first to admit, I still cry to this day and it’s a good thing. To be able release that emotion when it needs to be let out is important. It is when you hold all that emotion in and suppress it that you end up blowing up. That is how violence is created and wars begin.
Maybe it was because I was mostly raised by my mother or maybe I am just different than most, but I crave touch. Sam talks about how most men don’t even know how to show affection and I think that is sad. There are men out there that are uncomfortable hugging their own mothers I’ve seen it. I can’t imagine not being able to show love and affection to the very human that gave you life. Like the men out there that cannot say I love you. Why not? Do you no longer feel love? Have you forgotten what love is? Is there no one in the world to show you love? Is that the problem? I do not understand how a feeling so great, perhaps the best feeling in the world can be pushed away and not wanted nor needed by some. The simple feeling of human touch may be the greatest sensory stimulant there is. Nothing feels like touching the skin of someone else or the feeling of being touched by someone you care for and love. I cannot imagine being one of the children that you hear about that their parents never picked them up or hugged them or showed them love. Children that are in the way, an inconvenience to the ones that are supposed to care for them the most.
What it comes down to is people need to open their eyes! As a society we walk around with our heads down not watching the world around us. We watch fabricated news and believe that it is the truth. Like we actually went to Iraq to help them? Please, the only reason that we even set foot there is for the black stuff that currently makes our world rotate. Our government sends supposed “Aide” to other countries to help, when in reality it is just to get everyone focused on something else than the terrible things that we are doing to other people. I think it is time that we worry about what is going on as a human race. Look at us; we are selfish, unjust, uncompassionate, and cruel. We need to wake up and look at the big picture. The one in which our world is failing and we are failing our world. Our kids will be lucky if this earth is half as beautiful as the day they were born. Change needs to start now.
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