Stand

What are you doing with your life?

Have you tried standing?

Think about it…

Don’t think too long now.

You only got so much time on this earth before your gone.

What are you doing with your life?

What do you stand for?

You stand for the National Anthem at a sports game.

You stand in line to get a burger.

You stand in line at the Post Office, the DMV, the grocery store.

But that’s not standing.

To stand means you are willing to do what’s right in the wrong time.

You will stand and hold back the darkness.

You will stand in the gap between life and death and say I stand here in the name of love.

Damn, is it all as dramatic as that?

The simple act of saying hello to a stranger is breaking with the tradition of sitting down and doing nothing.

Yes, simple kindness is a stance against intolerance.

But it’s only the beginning!

Sitting down, doing nothing, not my business, not my own is the food that the monster of indifference feeds on.

What are you doing now?

Have you tried standing?

Standing lets you see the world for what it truly is.

What it truly is there are no guarantees of happiness.

There is no savior that will release you from your personal bondage of the mind.

The only person who will set you free is yourself.

You.

When you stand you will feel maybe for the first time in your life what freedom really means.

The fear of freedom is real in all of humanity.

The darkness of indifference is the disease of our shared humanity.

To stand breaks with the past.

To stand breaks with selfishness.

To stand breaks with the compact with death to embrace the living.

You're not alone in being afraid to stand.

Imagine...

Just imagine with me if an acorn was afraid to grow?

Imagine that acorn lying there in the dirt saying I’m not going out there the world expects too much of me.

I can’t do that.

But the acorn can’t do that.

The earth, sunlight, and rain, the circle of life instructs that seed to break it’s shell, to stand, to grow into a new life, to freely give shelter to the life that takes refuge in it’s arms, the life it deserves, the life it is meant to have.

Only humans deny life.

Only humans deny the voice of love calling their name.

Pity the fearful.

What are you doing right now?

Have you tried standing?

Peace

Daniel J Frey aka Toby