We Are Burning Up Our Borrowed Time

Waiting until tomorrow to take actions that work towards change the world's cultures from...

• selfish;
• individualist;
• 'independence'-valuing;
• wealth-hoarding

...into...

• Community centered;
• Giving-driven;
• Sacrifice-loving;
• Purpose-beyond-self centered

...is synonymous with denying the plant we live off of water, when we expect it to soon bear crop and fruit, in the drought that will surely sap its life to death.

Stop delaying and pretending that it's out of 'rational' - let alone 'justified' - fear that we're waiting to do decent things that will help others more than they will take energy from our own selves. Act, and see that the 'advice' your mind sends you about needing to care for yourself "first and foremost, always" is actually, sometimes, counter to your self-enrichment.

Sure, we fear rejection, abuse, neglect; that makes sense. Yet, given some basic awareness, it does -not- make sense to run away every time that we feel fear.

Sometimes, the ethical, right, and even the most sensible and logical thing to do is to look what we fear in the face, and stand before it, bearing our spear of courage - even when that means doing so in a way that leaves us emotionally vulnerable.

It's far from easy work...it's not often very comfortable...but 'like hell,' it sure is necessary.

If raging hurricanes, infernal fires, persistent droughts, famine, plagues, desertification, incessantly growing poverty (outdated definitions of the word be damned), melting ice caps, and trash-and-sludge-filled oceans aren't enough to help you see that we need to help each other sometimes, in spite of our 'survival instinct' even screaming for us not to do the right thing...chances are your 'survival instinct' is only interested in a fleeting sense of -self- preservation...perhaps at the expense of others.

Kill that part of selfishness. It deserves no place in the world we are moving rapidly into, and is merely a mask for letting our people, our loved ones, and our world quietly, painfully, miserably die.

Choose love, of all things - not love of one at the expense of all else. How much clearer can this choice be?

How much clearer does it need to be before a great many of you - of us all - make it, consistently, and stop looking back with timidity, uncertainty, and instead press on with determination, out of understanding the necessity of this continual decision. .. ...?

We don't have forever to make a better world, friends. We're already burning up our borrowed time, most of it without decent results.