Halcyon Thoughts

The World's Unhappy

You want to see the world? No you don't. The world is a disgusting, tearful, tragic place. Gangs rule the most beautiful cities, hunger and disease plague the most beautiful countries, the greatest people live in the most wretched of places and the most terrible people get exactly what they want. Pollution ravages across the globe, dirtying our beautiful Earth, and happiness, no matter how often we come across it, is fleeting, and very rarely true. It's so hard to pretend that all is right with the world when it's so broken, so shattered, and so desolate, calling out for help in an uninhabited reality. If only we didn't have to pretend. If only all really was right with the world, it was good, and kind, and forgiving, and everyone was happy. If only food were plentiful and disease nonexistent, money but a piece of meaningless paper. If only the beautiful Earth were happy and free, frolicking in the lush green meadows with her many friends. But it can't be that way, can it? Life has to be hard, happiness well earned. We must strive to make ourselves better in every way, and to help make the world happy. Perfection must be impossible to obtain, lest we should all become exactly the same, making the world little more than a gray, colorless sphere. No, we must all be unique, each possessing our own special attributes, each our own personality and each our own opinions. We must all paint our own picture on tomorrow and then merge our painting with everyone else's to create a new, not necessarily better world together, and as for reality, what of it? Reality stains tomorrow black, feebly attempting to keep us from reaching our goals, however we must not let it win, lest we should get caught in the same relentless cycle of every other day. Ignore the current reality and struggle for what you want tomorrow to be to become the new reality. Create something magnificent, and beautiful, and strong, and determined. Show the world that it can make it to a better tomorrow.