Sunday, August 12, 2007

An idea forming...

I have an idea and it came to me; like all my ideas do, whilst I was alone and talking to myself. Reading through my random thoughts, collecting the nuggets, dusting them off and presenting them to the room full of eager eyes that is my conscious brain.
I want the truth… It is that simple and anyone who tells you different then they’re simply lying! It’s not a monumentous idea, but one that has been lost within the maelstrom of the modern information age.
The internet is at the heart of this idea; an infinite resource that has already seemingly been lost to corporations eager for our attention when we stray away from a book, the television or even our own minds. We are the masters of this wondrous concoction that we have made for ourselves, it is not the rod for our backs, but the stick with which we learn to walk again and maybe one day prance through fields of endless green and gold.
I look around me and see a lot of questioning eyes; it is the brains behind those many pairs of eyes that needs to be engaged with this, that needs to run head-long into concrete walls if that is what it takes to unlock the truth in this fragile world.
The truth is that this world is not simple, but what has been proven if nothing else in this new information age is that truth brings hope, hope brings determination and determination brings outcomes. These outcomes that are sometimes negative have potential greatness, potential to bring great positivity through understanding of your fellow people; the ability to converse with them, understand them and above all come to love them as the siblings that we all are. We are here for too short a time and this world is too fragile a place to fill it with violence, pain and hate. Those agents are the ones of our own downfall through endless misery and we in this room are the seed that could grow into the largest network the world, maybe even the universe has ever seen.
I know it seems fantastic. There will be doubt among many of you: “Who is this guy? Is he out of his mind? Isn’t it time this was over?” My one question to you is this: do you not know it somewhere inside you? Isn’t there somewhere in your mind and soul that tells you that this is what you are here to do? All I can tell everyone is that I feel that calling. I feel it urging me on, encouraging me to know as much as I can about everyone and anyone, everything and anything even if it only brings a smile to sorrow-filled face, then I will be happy, I will know that all this talk about destiny and truth is in some way contributing to your desire for a better future.
Truth is the key and with that lance of truth we will slay the harbingers of war, famine and pestilence because truth can only bring light to dark places, it can only free those who are falsely in chains and it may even save those who are weak.
Using Christian allegory may seem slightly misleading coming from someone that isn’t religious, but I concede that one of the biggest things that the bible is not free from and that is monumentally simple metaphors. Jesus said: “seek and ye shall find”. I say, find the truth and the rest is as simple as it gets.