When sliding down the razor blade of life, you try to grab the handle but sometimes you grab the blade.

Humans accumulate their fears, the warnings of further violence.

My dormant trauma incubates for durations, festering combat.

The grief in my heart lying low spiking into a blaze.

Green iron flames dancing in emeralds.

Deep inky black strategies swell to the surface to survive.

Retribution, vengeance, payback, justice, no more filigree rhetoric.

Attacks, deeply implanted in our collective memory, fade

into the mundanities of everyday living.

Once again, devastations, the slaughter of the innocence, grief.

Watch out, it’s befalling and we are slumbering soundly.

We have to band together, to stop this from becoming,

THE END.

Satoru

You can have inspiration, motivation, and fantasies, but what you must have is organization and a prioritized plan. Vision is a dream of what we want, what we aspire to become our destiny, and it should be clear. Mission is the focus on who, what, and when. Our values determine how we deal with the interconnectedness. Vision is dream; mission is focus; core values are behavior. In tomorrow’s world, knowledge and information will supersede every aspect of growth. If you want to let the future in, you have to exam, scrutinize, learn, and know, these aspects of your thinking. Then you must be prepared, physically, mentally, logistically, and most of all with implementation.

Success is built on the five C’s: curiosity, confidence, curiosity, contacts and constancy. 

Satoru

The first sin or original sin was the knowledge of good and evil. We have forgotten that the second sin is speaking clearly. These are man’s affronts against God, the child against the parent and the citizen against the state. This is why, when a great teacher commits these sins, they are punished. Such is the price of being civilized and communicating. Is there any doubt that if Jesus came to earth again and preached we would first put him on television and then after he established himself as a leader either assassinate or crucify him again?

Our price for being civilized is to allow a multiplicity of controls to be placed on us. Our task is to assert our individualism and evolve while dovetailing into our society, an almost Sisyphean task.

Say little. But when you speak, utter gentle words that touch the heart. Be truthful. Express kindness. Abstain from vanity. This is the way.

Satoru

Children, and many adults, prefer the hyper-stimulation of virtual experiences to the real world. We have a vast universe of information at our fingertips, and we do not utilize this knowledge for self-improvement. We have developed habits reinforced by marginalization, and so we do not evolve because consistency in our past actions appears to have fostered growth. This mentality makes you feel safe. This is not entirely your fault, the corrupt system, avaricious government, and entrenched corporations all contributed. The operations of the world are built on economic interests, rather than ethical values, or the advancement of societies or people.

Satoru

I went to the bookstore

I said to the salesperson, “Can you help me.”

She said, “Certainly, tell me in your own words what you need.”

“Do I have my own words?” I answered.

“What do you want?” she said.

“I would like to look in the self-help section.”

“I can’t tell you where it is, that would defeat its purpose.”

I was annoyed at the person’s unwillingness to assist me, but I just laughed scornfully and said to myself, unwillingness? No incompetence, and ineffectiveness. She should be cleaning the streets with a broom rather than getting paid to help.

“I think you have to remember to take your medication.”

“You think you’re so smart, I already took them.”

“Perhaps it’s time to double your dosage? Where did you work before working at this bookstore?”

“The Library, but I kept putting the decimal in the wrong place.”

“Your proctologist called, they found your head.”

Satoru