Seed

I am sad. And it's about being alive on planet Earth.

Injustice is everywhere. There is injustice against many, many humans. There is injustice against other species. There is injustice against Earth. And the source is not only the people who act to remove other's ability to live in the way they are entitled to, but also those who refuse to act against these injustices.

Injustice is found in areas where illiteracy and sickness are concentrated. Consequently, poverty comes in as a natural result. Then poverty causes more illiteracy and sickness. Now the problem has gone full circle. And it goes on and on - a downward spiral.

There is a social epidemic that causes these blemishes all around the world: the epidemic of structural poverty. Most of us do nothing about it nor strive to be able to one day do something about it. There are even those who profit from this. They would actively promote the rigid structures of social class and political patronage to keep the wheel spinning. And the wheel has been spinning ever since.

Injustice is also found in areas where the ecological balance is greatly disrupted and, more specifically, where other species are not respected for their will to live - the same will that you and I have. The economic apparatus of gain and loss that all nation-states subscribe to fails to consider the incredibly huge losses of the environment and is entirely selfishly human-centered.

Those at the top of this oppressive pyramid justify environmentally damaging businesses in the name of economic gains which "benefit all". Indeed, it may benefit all humans, only in different proportions. And we saw how this proportions hurt us in the long run - the injustice of structural poverty, the lack of equal opportunities. And "all" is limited to the myopic view encouraged by natural selection. Other species lacking human awareness of human progress are rarely considered. The greater ecological balance which encompasses all is rarely considered. The pyramid stands strong.



Those who are aware are blinded by the abruptness of human life and choose not to act. They would rather maintain the pyramid because it is far more difficult to do something about it. They are at the base. The burden is heavy. No wonder it is better to choose not to act. But they ignore that the base supports the top and that the base is far more numerous than those at the top. If only they could amass enough numbers truly loyal to the cause of removing this oppressive structure - those never persuaded by the lure of a penny or a spark of power of those who sit comfortably on the top - they will, in theory, be able to flip the pyramid and install a better,egalitarian, and sensitive structure.

What makes it incredibly sad is the fact that my entire life most probably cannot do something about this. I may die fighting to dislodge the pyramid only to find myself breathing my last under the same pyramid, unmoved. At that moment, I may probably regret why I ever chose to fight when life is that short.

Yet here I am still fighting. Writing. Debating. Thinking. Surviving. Betting that this life which will most probably do virtually nothing against the pyramid will move it an inch in time.

Here I am planting seeds whose fruits I will most probably not see in my lifetime. Here I am hoping that the cosmic will that breathe life to Earth will somehow find the fruits acceptable and finally change humanity.