Thoughts --- 11/28/2004

Most of my life I have been told I was destined for greatness, what greatness am I destined for? Shall I be a great world leader? Amazing lover? Someone the world will remember?

These things all seem so unattainable and also useless to me. I remember times of another young man, a man who was a champion to his family, star amongst friends. --- I look at myself now and remember that young man. I believe it was for the best leaving him behind. Should I repent for the sins he committed? Perhaps what I have done is not that bad, people have done worse.

Can anyone remember the way things once were, do we ever reflect on the glory that was once Rome? Times have clearly changed, and they are not for the better. We live in a world plagued with conflict and war; these are not bad things by their nature. If anything they are the building blocks of society. So if conflict is not the problem than what is? Could it be politics? Religion? Or perhaps moral injustice?
Politics have existed since the dawn of civilization, when tribe members would fight over power. Religion became somewhere skewed, right around the time of moral injustice. Mythology shows us how people could get along; there were many gods, each with their own duties. People worshipped different Gods for whatever reason, did this make them hate each other ---- No!
Why did the Gods of many become the God of one? Now everyone is worshipping the same person, but we all believe the other person is doing it wrong.

As a society we have grown, we have flourished and now we have died. We no longer fight over territory or a need for glory amongst men. We fight and war because we believe there is only one way to think and all other is wrong. Is one set of ideals wrong? No, simply far fetched. During the age of great empires, men went into battle with honor; they carried with them a sense of purpose. Generals would bring forth the fires of Hades to motivate and envier their troops before the waves of battle crashed. Empires would be built upon the bodies of the dead; we would grow where others had died. Now we stand within the birth of the 21st century and all honor and truth has been lost from our heritage. We kill innocent people in the name of noble cause, but we have no nobility remaining.
Some may say this reality is not real; it is merely an illusion or a dream. Those who dream of this, feel no glory, no pain -- all they feel is unpleasant at the thought of what they are seeing. If this could be or is the truth it leaves only one last question, why do we feel nothing if we are living the dream? Their dream, our nightmare and a harsh reality.

Perhaps the path to peace and truth has come and gone. We need to build the bond in which men were first born. Brother ship, equality and a love for competition; do not judge him because he is different, not because his faith is not our faith, judge not what he does but why he acts.
To lose faith in humanity is a tragic experience, but perhaps not all is lost. Society has always fallen and risen again, just as the phoenix from the ashes, we shall burst forth a world where new world thinking and old world values merge to create a society. A society built on multi-culturalism, built not on the foundation of acceptance, but upon a belief of man's true inheritance.