No Say, No Play!
I am tired of being asked (coerced, forced) to fight in a war I have no say in. I am tired of childish, deluded (at best) and psychopathic (at worst), wisdom-stunted minds telling me how the world is.
When I was a teenager, I used to go to a teen dance club. One evening, I caught the attention of a bully who decided she didn’t like me. I was probably having way too much fun. To be honest, I wasn’t even aware of her and the way she was glaring at me until my sister pointed her out in warning. As soon as she noticed me noticing her, she began following me around begging for a fight. She seemed possessed.
She was like a mad dog I couldn’t shake, and she was bearing her fangs and fists. I kept trying to get away from her and so headed for the lobby, where she followed insisting we fight. I thought she was nuts and told her so. I didn’t want to fight anybody. I had no reason to. She was beginning to get on my nerves and about to get us all thrown out…my friends and hers.
An adult employee came bearing down asking us both to “take the fight outside”, but I stood up for myself instead. I explained I didn’t know who this girl was, that she was trying to start a fight, and that I just wanted to dance. So he threw her out. I went back to the dance floor and danced away the night.
This memory strikes me as one applicable to life today. I’m tired of feeling on the defensive. There are so many bullies trying to start fights. They are just begging us to give up our joy, our dance, and to leave the party in exchange for a punch in the face.
They actually think we are that stupid (sadly many are). Often times, we don’t even know who the hell these bullies are. They are faceless storytellers and manipulators. Or they just seem to come out of the woodwork and appear in the media, reciting a mantra of bullshit talking points.
We seemingly find ourselves in an ongoing war for our rights…to use cash, to have food, to elect representatives, to bodily sovereignty, to think our own thoughts. Well, I for one, if you’ll excuse what may appear to be arrogance, am too enlightened to pretend that any of that is something I should have to fight for. My ancestors already did that on my behalf, as did yours.
So, I’m no longer believing in the lie that I even have to fight. It’s their game not mine. I know what’s right, what’s just, and what’s true. So, I’m taking the reigns. No more energy wasted in fear. Just joyous laughter in the face of this absurd illusion.
In order to benefit limitless sentient beings, I generate a compassionate mind intent on enlightenment.