Why don't we have a revolution of kindness?
Not some hippy-dippy crap, but sincere and willful love. A recognition that other people, regardless of skin colour, religion, ideology, etc. are more alike to you than different?
Say goodmorning (or afternoon or evening) to your bus driver. Smile at people in the streets as you look them in the eye. Turn the other cheek. Refuse to get caught up in the rat race as this is a race without winners: there is no finish line, but merely an endless cycle--a hamster's wheel.
"You take your car to work, and I'll take my board. Then when you're out of fuel, I'm still afloat."
Spend your money at "mom and pop" stores. Contemplate the value of flies. Be brave and tell mean people that they do indeed suck. Associate yourself with the light of the sun. Give freely of your time to those in need. Donate a portion of your paycheck to a charity you like.
Drink to be merry, and not to escape your shitty life. Get yourself and those you know as removed as possible from the mindframe that supports the cycle of work, breed, and die.
Make a stranger smile. |
