How far does your influence extend?
What are the boundaries of your control?
Do you even think about it?
Do you think about it a lot?
Do you road rage?
Do you hit your child?
Do you knock on doors handing out political, religious, and social issue fliers?
Do you yell at your neighbor’s dog?
Do you not leave a penny?
Do you march?
Do you write your congressman?
Do you stay in your own backyard and ignore what’s going on over the fence?
Boundaries.
We all have a potential sphere of influence.
Those people whom we know and don’t know are in their own bubbles also.
Some of us are ballsy enough to romp over to our neighbor's yard and burst their bubble.
However, most of us are complacent and allow our neighbors to drown.
We assume their decline; their failure is all there’s.
We had nothing to do with it.
Boundaries.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
There are groups of us who believe we can lead other people to the well of our belief and make them drink the water we’re pouring out of our mouths into there’s.
This is and has been a false narrative given to us by those individuals and societies that have subjugated us, the people.
In other words, you can’t force people to believe like you no matter your moral high or low ground now which you stand.
If you do, you are a little dictator.
A nationalist.
A fascist.
A supremacist.
Believing that everyone is within your boundaries of control.
Your subjects to do with as you please because you are the king of the world.
Boundaries.
There are boundaries we break, but there are also boundaries we don’t break.
We allow poverty to murder our neighbor and their spirit.
We allow injustice to steal truth.
We allow racism to beat us down.
We allow those people who do not have boundaries to make us cowards.
It is difficult to have boundaries when passions are inflamed.
However, there is a difference between seeing a person drowning and either ignoring them or throwing them a book on how to swim.
There is a boundary in between.
It’s called love.
Love understands; Iove attempts to tell us that you can’t always get what you want.
Do no harm, love asks of all of us.
Your boundary ends inside of your head; your influence ends there, also.
We come together as a community, share ideas and plot a course together that best fits all of us.
Taking all reasonable ideas and beliefs into account.
In the history of the world, there has never been a single belief, a single person that has had all the correct answers to life’s problems.
History, in fact, is littered with people and beliefs with poor boundary control.
Truth, justice, freedom, and love have always defeated them.
Always.
Peace
DFrey
