Apathy Destroys

It's been a while, and my world has changed very much.

There are precepts in my life I would have taken for granted previous that I sincerely will never take for granted again.

I most often use this space to speak about domestic as well as international issues that have deep meaning for me, as well as implications that I find aren't pointed out often. I'm choosing right now not to discuss the disheartening notion that "I hate you because of your ideas" political strategy is not only the norm, but because we react to such things on a visceral level, we've reached the place in our society where such interaction is expected. I will not spend an entire entry right now on the hundreds of people who have died, in one 4 hour span, in Libya, Syria and Pakistan. November is months away, and there are more immediately important issues in my world.

We have no way of knowing where our footsteps will take us. To be sure, we set out on paths we intend. How are we strayed from our course? To what delights are we beckoned? At each choice, our path changes. There are the wildly divergent changes, and there are far more subtle ones. If I take choice A, I am certain all my other choices are exactly the same...... when did we remove from our decision-making process that consequences sometimes elude our immediate understanding? That the children we love hear the things we say and learn?

Somewhere, in the history of the world, a family raised a child who thought dividing families from one another during the cold war was a solution. There was no specific left turn in that life's path which indicated origination of the idea. Tiny course-corrections built a life that could produce such answers as a viable option. We impact others daily, in ways that reach far beyond our own understanding. When did we stop caring what that impact may be?