Making an Attempt

 I learned long ago that if you have to explain something, you might be better off not talking about it.  Most things can't be explained away.  Politicians are worse for not explaining their thinking.  And once they start explaining, the explaining never stops.  But I'm not getting into either religion or politics or explaining about what I mean when I mention a "new beginning."  I'll attempt to explain this without religion or politics, because it's neither.

Every day is a new beginning.  And I could stop right there.  I live with no remotse, no regrets, and no guilt.  There was a time I could never say this.  There has always been a philosopher in me that had my own way of explaining life.  Every single day begins a new adventure.  And when we go to bed at night, we can look forward to the new adventures of the next day.  I look ahead just far enough and the past is what has made me the person I am today.  And today will shape the person I am tomorrow.  

I don't expect either religious beliefs or politics to change this world.  Are Human Beings essentially evil?  If I believe that Human Life is all that REALLY matters, which I do, the number of people who actually take Human Life is a relatively small number.  I could say all Human beings are self-centered and selfish.  But as to whether instincts for survival make us evil is a debatable question.  If obedience to laws is what makes a person good, this begs the question as to the fairness of laws.  

We could say our need for survival outweighs all laws.  Are all laws good and fair?  That in itself is a political question.  I won't go any further than this.  Most laws benefit those who make them the most.  But there is one law that matters most.  In MY thinking that law is Human Life.  Love means to live and let live.  Love does no harm.  This is a universal law of all humanity.  But even that law is applied unequally.  

So, what is this "new beginning."  There will come a time before humanity comes to an end that love will be equally understood by all.  Otherwise, there is no hope for humanity to survive.  But I live each day believing that day will come.  I might be wasting my time and I might be a dreamer, but every poet is a philosopher and every philosopher is a poet.  They are all dreamers.  They live with the hope that has died in many.  But we are the believers in that hope.  Someday it will happen.  The future of humanity depends on it.  

I am smoking my Boswell pipe with my Autumn Evening and it might seem I am just waiting.  I'm not sure it was a philosopher or a poet who said it's always darkest before the dawn.  I see the world with a lot of hope.  But that's the philosopher in me and maybe a bit of a poet.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave