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It takes a moment to breathe and a lifetime to exhale. Sometimes you wonder if it will ever be enough to just exist in the space between disasters. We pride ourselves on our ability to organize and get things done in a timely manner but those seconds slip away when chaos rears her lovely head up into your world. We want things faster, smaller and cheaper but we don’t have the time to enjoy a good, night time read with our children. We worry ourselves over the most trivial of problems, not recognizing that poverty and illness do not just live outside our borders but on our streets and in our communities. Why is it never enough to get through the day with a sense of accomplishment over a job well done instead of worrying “Was today my last day?”
We live for sound bites and 280 characters when the expanded version of the written word can be so much more enlightening and enjoyable. Technology has done little to free up our time and instead enslaves us to a new gadget or format. We create bigger gaps in our physical interactions and rely on social networks and texting to communicate with abbreviations, acronyms, and slang.
We maintain and hardly correct or fix things.
We patch and upgrade when we should redesign and rethink.
We’ve filled in the edges of the map but haven’t gone back and looked at things we've already discovered from different perspectives.
We crave attention but hide behind anonymity.
There is a shoe somewhere, ready to drop. The sword is precariously dangled o’er heads.
We look down not up.
Efficiency is a sometimes a cleaner word for cheap and done by someone else.
We cannot enjoy. We selectively surrender.
We cannot expand. We must consolidate.
We cannot think. We must be told.
We cannot breathe. We must prepare.
We cannot move forward. We must go back.
We cannot forget. We must recall.
We cannot destroy. We must create.
We cannot threaten. We must encourage.
We cannot cut corners. We must explore.
We cannot close off. We must invite.
We can change. We cannot settle.
We can plan. We cannot assume.
We can assure. We cannot promise.
We can discover. We cannot discard.
We can recover. We cannot recondition.
We can relearn. We cannot cheat.
We can win. We cannot quit.
We can begin.
We can find the answers to any problem if we only share it with others. We can listen to what others have to say, no matter how hard it is to hear. We can open our eyes and see that we are all in this together. This is what it is supposed to be like if you let it. This can be some kind of wonderful. The times of thinking only of ourselves have got to stop, but the time to rely on others has just begun. This is our time…down here. This is to be our finest hour. This will only take a minute. This is not better than you. But you are better than this. Let in the fear for five seconds and then make a decision. It takes seconds to speak but a lifetime to regret.
This is today.
This is now.
Breathe.
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