Truth is not widely accepted.

Truth is inconvenient.

Truth will set you free only if you want it to.

Humans have told themselves stories in place of the truth since the invention of speech.

Their stories, myths, and beliefs all seem more appealing and right and are easier to accept than the truth.

It's perfectly understandable; it's perfectly human that we prefer our stories over the truth.

Our stories feed our prejudice.

Our stories feed our selfishness.

Our stories feed our entitlements.

If we had to face and accept the truth, the consequence would be responsibility.

What would we be responsible for?

The truth reveals that we are responsible for justice.

For equality.

For freedom.

For peace.

For the planet.

For each other.

The truth reveals what that responsibility wants us to do.

We can eliminate poverty.

We can feed the hungry.

We can care for the sick.

We can live in a clean world.

We can control guns.

We can make the world and everyone living their lives fuller, richer, and free from fear.

That's if we want to.

That's if we want to let go of the stories we tell each other.

The stories that blame others.

The stories that say our deities will sort our problems out for us.

The stories that make us deaf, blind, and dumb to the suffering and despair in our world.

Our world has never been in a state of balance.

The world teeters between the past and the future.

Always believing the past will come alive and save the present.

Our stories find their origins in our past.

A past dictated by hate, prejudice, racism, and bigotry.

The future is yet to be written.

Love can see us through, but love alone won't get us over the mountain of ugly lies we prefer to believe in.

If love alone could have overcome our stories, the human race would not continually find itself on this carousel of doom it likes to ride.

It wouldn't keep worshiping fallen gods of hate.

What will break humanity from chasing its own tail of self-deception?

History, yes, history demonstrates it takes just one person standing against the darkness and saying no more forever.

Are you the hope the world is looking for?

Peace

Daniel J Frey aka Toby