We Can't Have Wisdom Or Foresight

        

        We can't have wisdom or foresight

About the things we refuse to see

If we don't take off our blinkers and colored glasses

We can't have a firm grasp on reality.

We have to see that in order to make friends

We have to stop making enemies

We have to see that thinking "us vs them"

Denies that different people are part of the same reality.

 

We have to see that what attracts us

May be the same thing that to others might repel

Thus to live in harmony with others

We have to seek to understand those unlike ourselves.

 

We have to see that those around us

Do not have to share our beliefs, or toe our line

Just because they don't, doesn't make them strange and evil

It just makes them someone with a different mind.

 

We have to see when we are over-reacting

And making a big deal about something we don't like

We have to see we are just creating obstacles and blinkers

         To a fruitful, meaningful, and most important of all, connected life.

 

We have to see that the world does not order itself

To our preferred point of view and vision

When it orders itself in ways we don't want

We should not make drastic decisions.

        You know why?

        We have to see that what we fear

May never come to pass

And we have to see that even when bad times come

They typically do not last.

So dear reader, I hope you will take off your blinkers and colored glasses

Today, or in the next few weeks

So that your every word, thought, and action is backed

By the wisdom of a firm grasp on reality.

        

         A firm grasp on reality!