It's Time To Change

We live in a time where there are more Idols than Inspirations. More separation than unity. More love of Money than love of Love. More arrogance and self-absorbance than humility and awareness. The compassion for others seems to be withering away if not already vanished. Everywhere I look these days I am reminded of greed and how it seems to have consumed the hearts of mankind. The proof of this, there isn't even a middle class anymore. There is poverty and rich. Minimum wage is a joke. Your bills and cost of living is higher than what they pay you. So you barely scrape by, paycheck to paycheck, being out on the street is literally determined by whether you lose that employment. Your chances of starting a savings account are pretty much null and void. Then there are the homeless. They are what honestly break my heart the most. As I sit back and see people spend money to buy cd after cd of rappers/singers with enough 'money' around their necks and on their wrists to pay for the rent and buy an entire new wardrobe for a homeless man or woman for a five year period to help him/her get back on his/her feet. It's sickening to see such depravity. It needs to change. I am honestly praying that mankind will evolve spiritually and reverse their current moral foundations, that they would stand upon integrity, love, compassion, and selflessness; rather than oblivion, hate, arrogance, and greed. It's so hard for me some days to smile. To have hope in a world filled with despair but I will continue to try, to not give up because there ARE some who care and if there are some who care then they are teaching their children to care and they will then teach their children to care until we are back to a place of unity where we once coexisted peacefully, cared for our people, our earth, our animals. I have to believe that. That belief is the only thing that makes me want to keep trying to live in this world, trying to make a difference. My personal impact seems so small to me, but Im praying my efforts will be like a small rock when it hits the water, it makes only a 'tiny splash' but the ripple goes on for miles. I may not be able to change the world, but I can change the world of one person, and that's a start.