Choice of Awe

Sometimes life is hard and downright scary

And sometimes we feel like shit 

And the appropriate response seems to be to run away and hide and bemoan the travesties of the world

All the murder, rape, and pillage

We are killing the planet

We are killing each other

All this war

All this killing

All the emotionally unstable sad miserable people in the world

It is terrifying, it is big and huge and out of our control

But I choose to believe that I do have a choice

I choose to smile

I choose to breathe 

I choose to see the light and the lovely

And if that makes you uncomfortable, that’s your issue 

Because I happen to enjoy the light and lovely

In the midst of awful you can find the world is full of awe 

You just have to look

And believe in what may not at first be evident 

And believe that it can all be ok and can even be better 

There is light and love and joy and bliss

And you can choose to see it 

And you can choose to cultivate it

And you can choose to make a difference in your part of the world

To make the awesome and lovely and inspiring more evident 

And perhaps then life won’t be so hard or downright scary

And less full of killing and war and emotionally unstable sad miserable people

Perhaps I’m a crazy left-wing idealist hippy

That’s ok. 

I know which world I choose to live in.