Social Justice

It’s spooky to see and hear about all the darkness in reality. For example, at the Las Angeles airport, a 23-year-old man named Paul Ciancia entered the airport, shot and killed a security guard, and injured two other people. People want to be famous, they want to be remembered. They fear death and how it will end their story, so they do bad things. Don’t they realize the person they shot had a life, a family? Paul did much more than simply shoot a man, he uprooted the very roots of the lives of the people around him. Paul traumatized the US and ensured the recognition of the shadow of darkness reality seems to have cast.

My mom told me that she and my little brother Sully had been walking down the street when a car ran a red light and hit a biker. Then, the car driver got out and yelled at the biker for denting his car. Isn’t that scary? The biker could have been seriously injured and while a life is something that can’t be repaired the driver went on about his car which can be repaired or replaced. In addition, in the book Cherub: The Fall by Robert Muchamore, Lauren is doing a training exercise in the woods with some other kids when her instructor has a heart attack. She runs to the road to try and get a ride, but the lady who pulls over refuses to allow their instructor in the car because she is afraid he will throw up in her new car. These two observations seem to show that moral values have been seriously twisted- now a car is worth more than a life.

If you shine a light into reality, you might find that there are good things if you search for them and act on them. One thing I observed was in the subway, a beggar limped into the car and asked for money. The man next to me leaned over and gave him some money. I’m not saying you need to give money, that is just a physical observation. If you look into the thought you can see that this man had no duty to give this man money. He had no connection to this man. He had no responsibility and yet he helped the man to try and help him get a better life. In addition, a woman was trying to parallel park but kept backing out towards the end. A man walked up to her and said, ” You’ve got three solid feet behind you.” He helped the woman park and sacrificed his own time. He asked for no reward and had no responsibility or obligation to help the woman, he simply tried to spread good karma. Throughout my observations I found that reality was cloaked in darkness, but it faded if you used a flashlight. By lighting your own lamp or searching for good and adopting its ways the cloak will begin to fade and soon darkness will have no shadow nor reputation.