Lack Of Knowledge

To lose something because of the lack of knowledge is a very sad thing. To lose a life, to lose a limb, to lose something that cannot be replaced is so sad especially when it's preventable. When it's common knowledge that was required to prevent it in the first place.

Why? Why did it happen? The age-old question echoes almost unceasingly throughout the ages. Why me? What did I do wrong?

It is always too late when the question is answered because the question was asked after the fact. After the tragedy has occurred then comes the question and then the answer. The only thing is to learn from it. But do we? It seems that since time immemorial we cannot learn and the cycle goes on again. On and on from here to eternity. God help us.

As a song goes, 'When will we ever learn?'

What am I talking about? It's so simple. Let those who have ears let them hear. Let those who have eyes let them see. The child in the front seat of the automobile without a baby seat or any seat belts on. The child on the mother's lap seating on the front seat of an automobile. Do these parents and grown-ups profess to love their children? Oh yes, without a doubt, they'd even die for them but they did not think for them.

How sad when the only explanation after some tragedy has happened is, 'I did not think. I did not know.'

'I'm sorry, mama, papa. I'm sorry that you didn't know. I'm sorry you didn't think. I wish you'd had thought. I wish you'd had known. Now I hope you'd had learnt and you'd think and know when my sister or brother is with you.

'Bye, bye, mama, papa. I forgive you because you didn't think and didn't know. I hope that it will not happen to sister or brother the way it happened to me.'

Do What Is Not Easy

Where is the greatness in doing what comes naturally? The greatest joy and satisfaction is doing something that is totally out of character and out of sync with the natural but is utterly right and correct to do. Something which you want to do but have to will yourself gives a greater satisfaction when having accomplished and achieved that aspiration.

Totally bland and boring would be doing what comes naturally. It takes no effort and there’s no challenge at all to doing what comes naturally. It’s routine and mundane at some point even. But after struggling, striving, maybe with much discipline and self-control the success in the end will taste very sweet and satisfying.

So it is with writing. After weeks, maybe months, hopefully not years, of writing blocks; meeting dead ends (not deadlines, sadly) at every turn I am now enjoying the exhilarating thrill of marching forth to what I’ve previously considered unnaturally for me. Therefore, after having experienced this extreme high (of which I had experienced before at certain intervals in my writing life which is few and far between, sad to say) I am aiming to make what is unnatural for me natural. Thus, doing so will advance my writing dream.

"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young
person, "Always do what you are afraid to do. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, author and philosopher