Hopeless...

Like all movies that use a well placed musical score to heighten the tension and mood in their films, I also will try to use music as a method to aid the reader in gaining meaning from the blog. I don't think that I'll ever do this again - its more an experiment in its effectiveness while reading. So if you feel you got more from reading to the music, leave a comment and let me know.

So press play on the YouTube clip, and then read on, there is no video element, just music.

Now for the business of the day...

In our great country, and in fact in the world there appears to be a change in heart. More and more people every day are becoming aware that the lives that we're living are lacking meaning - or worse, we've lost hope.

Hope, the one intrinsic human trait that enables us all to live till tomorrow. The one quality of all people that enables us to heal from pain, and to look toward the future with a sense of longing. We all hope for better days, we all hope for a happy, long comfortable life. But in this modern era it is becoming more and more difficult to be hopeful about a better tomorrow.

As children, we were all filled with hope. For Christmas, birthdays, and growing up. We we're inspired with ideas of change and that we, as the next generation, would be the instigators for that change. But somewhere along the line the hope that once caused our hearts to beat firmly in our chests, the surging feeling that hope once gave an innocent youth before approaching their sweetheart, the fire in our lives that made tomorrow so much better than today has been extinguished.

Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere.

To accept a favour is to sell freedom. This phrase, put down in the first century BCE, rings true the sentiment of this entry. Hope sets our hearts and minds free, hope is the desire and passion which makes us human, but the favours we've accepted along the way, along the many roads of life have caused us to lose this pure hopefulness that all people have a right to.

People are sadder now than they were fifty years ago. Moving out means moving into debt. Getting married means tying yourself down. Getting a job means losing your freedom. Going bald means losing your youth. Getting old means losing your looks. These are the messages which we are made to believe now, and we wonder why it's hard to hope for the future...

Somewhere in our past the way that people have thought has become confused. The past has become our way of judging the present and looking towards the future. This only leads to conflict and dread - we dwell on the past and so re-enact it in the present and fear the future. When fearing the future means you'll never move forward, and that society can never move forward in its pursuits for peace and happiness.

Hope means doing the opposite. We should be looking towards the future we want to live in to rule our lives and govern the decisions we make today, and only look to the past to help us from making the same mistakes again.

There is change in the air and we can all feel it - there is a civil tension rising due to the inaction of uncompassionate governments and corporations. These things will never change, but they have changed our society and caused us to lose meaning and hope. This entry is to try to remind us all that WE are the change, and unless we can find hope for the future and live our lives based on the principles that will enable us to achieve this future, nothing will ever change... and the future will be hopeless...


Man... I'm such a hippy.