Throwing Your Hat In

If we are not at the table, we will be in rhe menu. Taking part, doing our part and having our say is more significant in an age of lowering ethics, more aggressive making use of others and rising manipulation by those we think we can trust. At times it can be mental, physical and pyschological fatigue we experience, if we dare walk up the hill of opposition to us when we purposefully have to make things right. At the same time, we can discover our hidden resolve, unexpected positive fulfilment and a twinkle in our eye, when we do the right thing. We meet roadblocks, devious games, toxicity and sheer fraud when we persist. On certain days we have disappointment on our shoulders or our hearts dampened, but it is a true adage that tomorrow is another day. We may be abandoned by some or encouraged by others. It can be a lonely journey - but it can be experiencing episodes of fellowship on the same weary road. The bottom line is that it is always a personal sojourn. The fascinating thing is that we can understand and see others better along the way. We do not expect the level of passion in others to be the same as in us. We know that it is all just a game with varying levels of intensity. We fall at times, but we get wiser. We are more mindful when others stir, gaslight or provoke us. We also have moments or stages that uplift us. We discover that we have set up personal boundaries and values for others to acknowledge. What is the vulnerability or weakness of the individual or group that opposes, harasses and bullies us? Perhaps we have found their Achilles Heels in their facade and behaviour. There are more than sea shells in the sand when the tide goes down. Such is the state and nature of the process, whether in politics, small organisations, social movements, making an invention or in promoting an idea or good cause. If you do not throw your hat in the ring, you can only watch from the side. Hear no evil, say no evil and see no evil? It is burying our heads in the sand, but the matter asking for our attention and help will not just go away. #yongkevthoughts

Here I Shall Rise

 

On the cusp,
Do you feel it in the air?
How long more can they play it up,
Leading us down a diversion and delusion not so rare?

On the up,
We can anticipate with a new dare,
They play the same script with a self centred selective rub,
trying to trap us in their lair.

Hold up our cup,
We are awakened with a renewed flair,
Beware of false words, pretences and being dubbed,
As we see with renewed eyes and hearts, the truth laid bare!

#yongkevthoughts