firemtn

Goosie and her alternate persona The Groose

With the way the world is currently, a person doing everything they can to make it a better, less cruel place, still will feel like they're failing and falling shamefully short. That shame should be for those in power who have long since cut the human ties that bind the rest of us to our fellow man. We still feel the pain. That pain we feel is love. It is that which has driven every single positive interaction and change within humanity's history.

I haven't met many good parents around where I live. A lot of lessons unlearned from generation to generation. A lot of silent suffering, friendships unmet, and ties cut. I've been very unlucky throughout most of my life, but I give thanks often for being raised by the family that I had. My Mother, Father, and Grandmother raised me together, and they always did everything they could to make the world a better, less cruel place... including teaching me to do my best to be that way as well. My Father and Mother were that way because their single mothers had taught them in the same way, but my Grandmother, who lived a life mired in depression and abuse, became that way so as to not continue the cycle.

Parents often tell each other of seeing their children commit an act of kindness for another while the child thinks themselves unobserved... the pride the parents describe is the gratifying realization that they HAVE made the world a better, less cruel place. I realized a while back that there's something that too many parents, doing everything they can to make the world a better, less cruel place, don't understand. Usually, though not always, because they didn't have a good home-life while growing up... But I did have that kind of home-life, and so the great pride I feel in my parents, my Mother, Father, and Grandmother, is something I recognize that the children of other parents like my own must feel as well.

Allow yourself to feel other's pain, but don't let it drive you to sorrow. Just keep doing your best and, while it will never be at a pace that any of us would be satisfied with, the world WILL become a better and less cruel place. Take care buddy ❤️

(Apologies for the long comment.)