Pray Hard!
5/02/2005
This Thursday, May 5, is the National Day of Prayer. I'm not normally a praying kind of guy, but things are getting dark in the dawn of the 21st Century.
Just when I thought the human race might be ready to take the next step, we slip right back into the primordial soup and go further backwards each and every day. Or at least that's how it appears. Defeat after defeat of common sense and human dignity on a societal scale has left me a little more than cynical over the past few years. As I'm trying to clean out the attic, so to speak, my prayer this year will be for myself.
Yes, I'm going to be treating my own affliction on the Day of Prayer. I'm tired of seeing the world fall apart around me. I'm finished with allowing what is happening on a macroscopic level directly influence my personal life. My creativity. My time. My inspiration. My relationships. The world can take its monstrous regiments, its pathetic leadership, its hatred and indignity and cram it all up their respective asses. Because this is my prayer, my life, my song. And I'm going to clear out the cobwebs for at least one day and hope that I have a little bit of faith and hope left to make a difference in (at least) my own life. I'm going to try and feel connected again. Because it's easy to disconnect when absolutely nothing is sane or functional in the world. It's easier to feel isolated and apart than it is to feel like I'm actually a part of this stinking, godforsaken planet.If you can't change the world, change yourself.
And if you can't change yourself, then change the world.
- The The, Lonely Planet - (from Dusk)
(BTW, Dusk is perhaps the greatest album ever made, so if you don't have it, get it.)
posted by Edward Svengali @ Monday, May 02, 2005,
