Differences

Buddha, “there’s no fire like passion, no shark like hatred, no torrent like greed”. Indeed hate and greed are powerful motivators and there are times we are caught in the incessant waves of hatred from feeling entitled to something we shouldn’t even be looking at. We want what we shouldn’t want with a desire that is unhealthy and a little crazy but we think we know best and don’t want to listen to the voices of reason. We are so caught up in certain situations that we cannot pull free, we are tangled up in a web of greed which in turn brews hatred the longer we don’t get what we want and only love can pull us out of this self destruction. Passion is this all consuming fire that will no be put out even by torrential rains because its determined to burn strong, come what may!
Is there more to people that what meets the eye or are we all really basic and at the core no different from the next person?
Do circumstances determine what picture we paint with our actions, speech and general behavior or do the people around us influence that more than we’d like to admit?
Is there something special that makes people the same or unites them in such a way that they really are one and the same man?
Shakespeare, “Life is a stage on which every man must play his part” we might regret some of our past actions but thank God that we still have a chance to rectify things along the way and do things we are proud of, come tomorrow.
Is there a way to reduce the disparity in the multitudes?
What discriminates us from each other?
What distinctions are there to identify one as greater or lesser than the other?
Is it just the choices we make from birth, from our parents making them for us, to taking over and making similar choices due to the way we were raised and after that having our children make those same choices?
Life is indeed a cycle, one circle of similar people meeting and marrying each other.
What is the magnitude or degree by which we are so different that nothing could ever bring us together?
There must be a deviation from what we consider the norm, for people to always be at cross points or are we digging too deep and not looking at the baser insticts in man?
Are there really irreconcilable differences?
Ingersoll said that anger blows out the lamp of the mind, have you ever been consumed by an anger that is indescribable that makes you a whole new person that cannot listen to reason because all you see is a haze of red and like an angry bull, you just charge without thinking?
These actions are the ones that brew differences that will never be forgotten, scars so deep that even when the repairs are made, the wound will still throb under the skin.
There is a certain inequality that somehow finds its way into our hearts and is so deeply ingrained that its harder to change who we are than we think.
What are those factors that affect the congruence in such a way that there is no harmony and disagreement thrives amongst men!
What creates this space between people, from thoughts to the consequential actions?
I sometimes think that we are remote from each other, removed from the emotions other men have, unable to be understanding or sympathetic at times, why?
Aloofness certainly doesn’t help build the society as one big home, we always end up leaving someone behind!
Is that what helps us stand apart and when did that become our number one goal?
Everywhere we look, the environment is cut throat and only the strong or sly win, is this so much a part of us that we’ll walk all over our brothers trying to get ahead?
Suppression reigns and at the end of the day whew we have a winner, nobody particularly cares how they got there!
And that my dear brethren, is the complexity of one of the facets of life!
I cannot help wondering how long such moments will last, like all other moments in the past, they come and they go as surely as the sun rises and sets each single day. There are times I want to hold on longer than I am supposed to and times I just want the day to pass as quickly as it came.

Happy October peeps :-)