I've had a really wild year spiritually. I started 2015 with so much apprehension and so many unanswered questions, that I was completely ready to give up on any sort of religious pursuits. The realization that church doesn't fit me, and doesn't feed me, was a tough conclusion to deal with. But once I openly acknowledged it, I was introduced to some incredible spiritual philosophies that actually speak truth to me. A passion was reignited. Or, to be more realistic, ignited for the very first time.
I've come to realize that most spiritual things aren't nearly as complicated as so many people allow them to be. And most social things are far more complicated than we're willing to understand. Somehow the way we approach those things have been flipped and turned around so that we simplify the complex and distort the simple things. If we're able to change how we see, we will easily change how we act. And change how we love. And love for real. And it will create true and lasting change in a world that very desperately needs it.
I can't sum up what I've felt and learned this year in a few paragraphs. I have a hard time trying to assign words to even the smallest aspects of it. But it's a good thing. And I want it to grow and expand. I want to fight for change, even when it feels like anything I can do alone is too small to help. I know that even little steps toward progress are steps that absolutely must be taken. So I'm going to fight against the things that we've been taught. We've been taught to accept and ignore injustice. We've been taught to fear each other. We've been taught a lot of lies. But I am ready to fight them. And to remind you and everyone I know that we are the only ones who can choose either to perpetuate or to change what our children are taught. What an incredible power we hold in our hands!
Well, sing, sing at the top of your voice,
Love without fear in your heart
Feel, feel like you still have a choice
If we all light up we can scare away the dark
We wish our weekdays away
Spend our weekends in bed
Drink ourselves stupid
And work ourselves dead
And all just because that's what mom and dad said we should do
We should run through the forest
We should swim in the streams
We should laugh, we should cry,
We should love, we should dream
We should stare at the stars and not just the screens
You should hear what I'm saying and know what it means
To sing, sing at the top of your voice,
Love without fear in your heart
Feel, feel like you still have a choice
If we all light up we can scare away the dark
Well, we wish we were happier, thinner and fitter,
We wish we weren't losers and liars and quitters
We want something more not just nasty and bitter
We want something real not just hashtags and Twitter
It's the meaning of life and it's streamed live on YouTube
But I bet Gangnam Style will still get more views
We're scared of drowning, flying and shooters
But we're all slowly dying in front of computers
So sing, sing at the top of your voice,
Oh, love without fear in your heart
Can you feel, feel like you still have a choice
If we all light up we can scare away the dark