How’s everybody doing these days? I can tell you how everybody’s doing. Struggling. That’s how we’re all doing. On every level. Politics, pft don’t even go there. Religion, they’re all fighting with each other which is NOT what the man told us to do. Judgment, why are they acting different that me? Well we just can’t have that. Money, lordy it’s all imaginary as Monopoly cash and we’re all out here killing ourselves for it. Love and relationships are hard no matter how good they are. It’s a mess I tell you. But. And this is the big BUT. I can feel the change coming. Can you feel it? Were you nice to somebody today? I was, at least I think I was. Now what if that person I was nice to goes and tells their friend or loved one, hey, I had the nicest conversation with this lady today. And they just smile. I can see that happening. I tell people when somebody’s nice to me. Always have. I figure if people can spread gossip all over the place about who did this or that, well I have the same chance to spread a little sunshine. It’s my freely given universal right. Okay, so back to the change. What if, just give me a pause here, what if, we’re all beginning to realize that everybody else, and I do mean Everybody else, is just getting to the point that the struggling just ain’t working anymore. We’re all tired, stressed out, overworked, underloved, needing hugs and a long nap. ALL of us. Tell me you’re not. Not going to believe you, I don’t care how much you swear on whatever your Bible is. We’re on the edge of just being over it all. Let’s all just go live in the woods, that God gave us, and grow food that God gave us, and drink water that God gave us and go shit in the forest like the bears that God made. And love each other. Who’s with me? Why can’t we? Why? And you know what, eventually one person at a time will see that they Identify with the people around them. All of us are humans. All of us are tired. Can you imagine how big that group hug could get?? Damn, I had Harvard Calculus and I can’t even imagine the exponentals and zeros that would add up to. I’m not joking. We can do this. Smile at somebody. Reach out and touch somebody’s arm when you are drawn to. Unload that grocery cart for that nice old lady that’s stuggling, and do it even if she isn’t nice. We’re getting old and crotchety. But we also are the ones that wiped your butt and fed you until you could use a spoon. So GET OVER IT. Pick your kid up and give them the best bear hug ever. Can you imagine the amount of positive energy that would create? I can. We’ve been run down for so long, imagine that kind of feel good, dancing in the kitchen joy! Joy! Once we see that we’re not alone, that everybody is tired, that we’re all in the same situation, we can give ourselves the grace to smile. To laugh along with that child being silly and not giving one holy shit! Once we identify that we are all tiny parts of the one big whole that is life itself, we can start to imagine how love can spread and multiply. Let’s try that a while. I’m worn out from all the bullshit, the drudgery, the misery, going around with a smile on my face like I’m a Zombie in Hunger games. I say enough is enough. Let’s admit how miserable we are and get on and get over it. Because, once again, love is the answer. It always is.