Raindrops on Roses...

“When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I’m feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don’t feel so bad” so I figured I’d try this out for 2020 instead of a handful of resolutions that are a setup to fail - most of the goals, which is really what they are, can be achieved by implementing three words: just do it. 

So here’s a quick glimpse of my favorite things in no order, alphabetical or otherwise, no prioritizing and no expectation that anyone cares. Nevertheless, just making the list might help facilitate coping with the horrific situation we find ourselves in ever since 11/8/2016 when “resistance” was packaged up by media for our daily consumption to be cool as a bonafide cult of crazies began running wild in every element of our society. (For the record and the cause (always need a cause) of intellectual honesty, let me state right here and now: I hate snow; so, therefore it follows: I despise snowflakes - a whole other topic for another day and I’ll leave it at that. 

Now let’s get to it - my favorite things:

Hmmm...let me think about that - they’re not quite on the tip of my tongue. I’ll try though. 

Well, give me a minute...maybe the list is just too big to quantify yes!  That must be it!  But still, there must be a “FEW of my favorite things” I can come up with - you’d think, right?

Nothing. Nada. A lot of clutter but nothing in particular emerges to kick off the free flow of ideas and generate at least one or two things...yet, my pen seems dry. (Remember them? They went the way of books - poof!)

I wonder what I could do to “trigger” (big, beloved buzz word interchangeable between opposite sides of the same coin aka political parties) some definite favorite things I can name.  

Apparently nothing since nothing comes to mind. Very discouraging. I thought this would be an easy exercise!

Ok, here we go.  My favorite things are......

Well this is going nowhere. Could it be I HAVE no favorite things?  Is that even possible?  Is it??

Yes. 

What if I try a different approach?  I’ve got it!  I’ll list a few of my most HATED things.  

Wow. So much easier and in fact, I already did up above. 

And therein lies the problem, dear genius readers...we have been conditioned to think AND feel that hate is easier than its opposition: love. Why?  Because it is. And we humans, for the most part, do seem to choose the easiest things, ways, options, decisions, morals, philosophies and so forth. So over and over again, that choice, the easy one, inevitably leads to hate. Its roots are laziness, apathy and indifference UNTIL you can latch on to something that makes you feel better; that gives you meaning, a sense of purpose. 

Right now, as we begin a new year...a new decade, let’s stop choosing EASY because that collective choice has led us to dwell in a land of division, “fear and loathing” (H/T Hunter Thompson) hypocrisy, verbal and physical violence all packaged up in a perpetual state of hatred brought to you by a filthy, disgusting, “free” press mouthpiece of those who wish to CREATE destruction (bravo if you noticed the oxymoron 👏👏👏).   While THEY are free to impose their lies upon us and while WE give them permission to, WE are the unfree. WE are shackled to THEIR truths. WE simmer and brew and ferment until we ultimately explode nothing but hatred. 

It will kill us. One way or another. It will kill us. 

For this new decade, can we, for the love of GOD and all things sacred and holy, begin to love??  Begin to choose the NOT easy?  Begin to live as we were meant to?  Because if we do not, it is simply a matter of brief time, that our hatred does, indeed, kill us all. 

Happy New Year.  With love.