Not buying

"Watch, let me show you how it goes", he said. He proceeded to explain how the contraption works. I looked at him blankly the whole time and finally said "thank you for your time, but I'm not buying." He was mad, of course, here I was, a potential profit. Lost. He couldn't see that it was him, pushing himself onto me. I never asked for him to waste his efforts on someone as incorrigible as myself. So off he went, looking for more prospective investments. I sat back again, thinking to myself "What the hell. All life long, here they come, the masters of deception, trying to tell me how it's done. While secretly, behind closed doors, being the greatest fuck ups you will ever know." I just shook my head, trying to let it be, but my thoughts had more ideas. "I wonder why anyone would adhere to the instructions of the gods, when slavery was part of something they brought. Detailed descriptions on how to treat humans differently, based on color and creed, sex and orientation, religious beliefs. Trying to tell me who and what is better, or more or less. What kind of gods are those, that make rules to enforce division among us who came as one? Who is naive enough to believe that different is any less?" I couldn't shake off that trail of thoughts that kept pouring forth. "We are such an intriguing mess, falling for everything we are told. Just look around the world and see, how what one believes shapes the lifes they live. What is even more confusing, is the continuum from generation to generation that things must be this way according to the ancient inscriptions passed on to us by the gods. As if there wasn't an opt out choice. As if at any moment I simply couldn't just open my eyes to the deceptions we have been caught up in time after time." I got up and stretched, trying to shake all these thoughts out of my head. What could I possibly do? "Not much", I thought to myself "except to live in the awareness of love in each moment I have." ~•~•~•~•~•~• a beautiful milieu Image Craig Whitehead https://www.instagram.com/sixstreetunder/