Here is a random fact for you. At this very moment I have just done something new.
I wrote this little piece of whatever down on paper before I put it don on cyberspace.
Sure I know that doesn't sound like much but for a rambler who seems to be perpetually stuck in the neo-technological world of laziness, I find it to be a rather large accomplishment.
SO anyway, now that you have read my wonderful announcement, I was thinking. It hurt alot, and there was a rather unpleasant burning smell, but I was thinking...
Fences.
Fences have got to be the stupidest (is that right...I don't think that is a word) idea ever. I mean really, they were first used to divide territory for people who said one day, "I like this spot.....its mine now." Why?
We seem to have this idea that fences keep things out.
LUDICROUS!!!!!!!!
We are so fixated on ourselves that we think our little 5x7 plot of space surrounded by a fence is actually keeping people out. Doesn't it make sense, considering the immensity of the "outside" world, that we are keeping ourselves in.
This thought process doesn't even take into account what a fence is. IT is a barrier which doesn't even differentiate sides. We have no way of knowing which side we are on, in or out. So really the fence is nothing but a few sticks which get in our way.
Useless.
But what really makes me angry is the electric gate. Yes, I saw on. It was automatic. All you had to do was drive up to it and it opened.
WHat the provocative word!!!!
Why even put it up in the first place. DO you people even know what a gate is for. I am angry now just thinking about it.
I can be angry about fences and automatic gates if I want, but too often I don't even notice the gates and fences I put up. I have tried to keep people out, but in turn did nothing but imprison myself.
HA!!! you didn't see a deeper meaning coming, did you? How do you like the way I just slid that in there?
But anyway.
In this world where we are increasingly intent on putting up fences against, terrorism, socialism, communism, truism, morality, christianity, reality, and all the other things that make us uncomfortable, in order to protect what we call, "individuality," I believe it is time to truly examine which side of the fence we are on, and walk out of the prison door, which is really just an automatic gate.
It is one thing to be scared of your shadow, but it is something else entirely when you become scared of your reflection.
I am becoming increasingly afraid that if our country were to take a serious look in the mirror, the thing that would break would not be the mirror; it would be us.
