Creation

From this moment forward, the past will be behind you. What will you claim as part of your identity, and what will you choose to leave behind? According to some, it's just that simple. It is, if you choose. So is happiness, a choice that is; reportedly quoted by Abraham Lincoln, among others. If his life were followed, many would understand much better. Never mind that the photograpy available in his day really couldn't capture a smile well. Freezing a smile, even a fake one, for the timeframe to catch a shot was excruciating. His accomplishing the presidency was a feat in and of itself, under the circumstances. If I read more of what is written by or about him, there may be something to learn as to why he wished to become president. Was it a deep sense of purpose, or a momentum, once started, that would have been inappropriate to reverse? Maybe it was something in between; only Abe himself could tell us for sure.

Abe Lincoln was not a man who skipped much, as in the hopscotch kind, as in having a spring in one's step, unless in private moments with his children. Much of the time in his life had all but the world's weight on his shoulders. How much he felt it or acknowledged it is another question only he could answer. We take on all with either a conscious or unconscious permission, with the exception of being in a bad place at a bad time; there are things that happen that still make us wonder 'why?'.

In our lifetime, is it possible to minimize or get a grip, some sort of control on what happens to other humans (for the highest and best of all concerned)? To accept the collective responsibility we all have toward each other in some capacity? It's a choice. Some have the wherewithal to acknowledge that there even is a choice. Other's must find food or shelter to survive another day. We represent them all. Obviously, it's been possible to participate in destruction, where even apathy or non-action is a form of participation. Yes. So by the same token, there's a way to participate in creation without destroying, without creating humans only to snuff them out before lives have the opportunity to even begin.

We were designed with the capacity to find a way for all to thrive; I heard a trusted mentor mention in a recording that if all of the world's resources in monetary quantity were divided evenly between every child, woman, and man on the planet, no exceptions, each would have the equivalent of approximately 12 million dollars. I believe it. So why the killing, why the greed, why the control and fear, why the need to have others submit? Leadership and power have nothing to do with control over others. The best leaders' stories go unheard or undocumented most of the time, or surface as a legacy, as if it couldn't be repeated. History does repeat itself, if unstudied or respected. The best history can be repeated as well, were we not so in need of making a mark 'like none other'.

The best footprints of our existence occurred when some chose to lead in a way that would make children proud, that would teach them that one person can start something that leaves the world a better place. Others paved the way for that very reason. They did what no one else could do, to make it easier for those that followed, many strangers they would never meet. Their vision included the smiles and laughter of children, who where given the opportunity to be children, instead of slaves in the field or slaves to anything. Many still exist in our world today; we can choose to change that. Not acknowleding our part in the process is participation in the opposite of creation. It's a daily thought.

Do not let the spotlights blind you; tread carefully, speak wisely, for in this present moment in time, you will not pass this way again, and every step you tread on going forward was created by the one before it.