Last Thing
Feeding yourself.
Buying that new pair of shoes.
Ordering online.
We'll do that.
Flipping someone off.
Talking behind a friend's back.
Getting high.
We'll do that.
Not stopping hate.
Not comforting the lost.
Not smiling.
We'll do that.
We will do many things, too numerous to count, in our lives.
And we will do them gladly.
Not out of a sense of duty but of pride.
What is the last thing you would never do?
Is it love?
The last thing too many won't do is to love ourselves and the world.
Why?
It's too hard for too many of us.
We don't know where to begin, so we never start.
Too many of us lack the foundations of love.
We don't love ourselves.
If we don't love ourselves, then loving others, including strangers, represents a danger to our existence.
If we don't love ourselves, we are handicapped, unable, and unwilling to reach out and restore hope.
Not just to be sympathetic but to attain the highest human ability: Empathy.
If we don't love ourselves, we are doomed to be consumed by our own desires, focusing inward at the expense of all life around us.
What is the last thing you would do?
Love to be effective must be exercised.
Love is not something to keep locked away.
If love is locked away only for ourselves, then it is a wasted expression.
Love to become real, to grow, to mature must live in the light of life and grow.
What do you represent?
Selfish desire or giving love?
What is the last thing you would do?
Peace
Daniel J Frey aka Toby