The Details

In a world beset with distraction, it's easy to miss the little things; the details that were once the focus of sonnets are rapidly becoming the nuances of a race bent on self-destruction –all but forgotten traces of what makes us humans. And in this confusion, love breed's hate; faith breed's contempt; morality breed's spite; individuality breed's conformity.

What makes anyone special anymore? What makes friends from enemies between two people who've never met? Who draws that line? How is it understood? -All details overlooked.

People think that there are answers to life, that like any test you might take at school, every answer is clearly right or wrong. Should we expect life to run like anything that comes with instructions? Through various parables, sayings and proverbs, I'm led to believe that life provides lessons –it's the lessons that provide answers –and the answers are not always black or white. Our guide through these lessons is our conscience and the advice of others. What compels us to weigh right from wrong? What compels us to care? Where we invest more faith and under what circumstances is often an individually learned trait, but faith has to be placed or we become slaves of habit, doing what feels good, or normal, or safe, or familiar because it is simply that –familiar.

People need eachother. It's an interesting aspect of the human condition, which is to say that for the series of biologically determined events which are common to most human lives, some of which are ineveitable for everyone, at it's very base, the ongoing way in which humans react to or cope with these events is the human condition. To imagine more about life beyond what is needed for survival is a trait shared by all humans, and humans alone.

Choose now to either die immediately with your loved ones around or live alone for the rest of your life on a deserted island in the middle of nowhere. Which is it? There is no wrong answer, just a revelealing look into who you are and how you handle things. Why did you answer the way you did? What are the expected consequences of your choice? Who do you think your decision will impact? How will they be affected?
We're getting back to the details now, aren't we?

When someone is in need, why do we help them? Why would we not? Is it because we expect something in return?
The helpless aren't helpless if only they look for help. The hopeless aren't hopeless if only they have help.

I guess I'm in a bit of a "mood" at the moment and I should take some time to let this sink in more thoroughly.