Sometimes not a single soul except yourself, it seems believes or sees it. In those times you just have to believe in your own goodness, when every mirror you turn to reflect back a dirty and ugly image, you just have to believe in that beauty you see in your inner man, that beauty you feel, that decency you believe to be you. Do not throw in the towel, do not stop believing in justice, fairness and goodness. Do not stop believing in doing what is right. Do not stop believing in standing up for right even when it hurts to do so and you are alone.
Yes, sometimes you will have to fight, to stand your ground and those times you might just be an army of only one, just you, but as long as you have breath and can discern between right and wrong, choose right and when you can discern between good and bad, choose good always. The right choice is not always easy, but choose it nevertheless, for what is man, when we have lost all our values, principles and convictions, we are no longer any better than animals.
We might be the only one shielding in our camp, under our parasol and that is okay, yes it might get extremely lonely. That is okay as well, the crowd is not always right, the herd does not always know the way. If we are to join the crowd and loose our convictions, then of what value are we, what have we brought to the table? Of what use is it, that we are given the convictions in the first place, where is our uniqueness, our own person, our own voice?
We just have to believe in our journey and bear the name calling, the exclusion, the fight, the betrayal, the disappointments, the being misunderstood, our words being twisted, our reputations being tarnished. The lies, the jealousy, the envy, in it all we must stand strong, determined with all diligence to be good and solid, focused, eyes set like a flint because in so doing we will find our real purpose, meet our tribe, enter into the second wave, but first we must overcome the barrier of betrayal and disappointment.
Having difficulty in trying to stand, we just keep standing, not weakening or burking, alone, exposed, vulnerable, disillusioned, confused, pained, despondent, desiring of death, asking the existential question, yet we keep believing, standing tall and straight. Called all possible name under the sun, trying to break us, yet we just stand, battle worn, we still stand, wobbling and unsteady, yet we still stand for the truth and process we believe in. This is not the time to consider whether we might be wrong, it is the time to just believe in our rightful ness
Beautiful Ivory 