On this day before Independence Day, I find myself still questioning the Universe on a wide variety of topics. It frustrates me to no end that my mind seems to have all of the energy to fly in 100 different directions at once, and I can’t avoid the levels of pain that I must endure just to walk over and refill my coffee cup.

I know…I am making my own reality by bringing up (my wife might say “complaining about”) my health issues. Some might say that – on some level – by giving them voice, I am making them real,

Maybe so. But talk about being in this world all alone. Nobody wants to listen to anyone blather on about that.

But that’s an easy cop-out when you are not experiencing that level of pain. In this society, it is now the societal norm to “swipe left” on anything that upsets our delicate balance of our perceived life control.

Sympathy is dead.

Long live convenience.

We are all ceasing to be humans. Or, at the very least, losing our humanity at an alarming rate. Our society is devolving and we’re doing nothing about it. It has degraded from “We The People” to “We The Special Interest Group”…or, “We The Insulted”…or “We The Righteous”..and so on.

Humanity is no longer one. And – to me – that is extremely sad. On this 50th anniversary of the time when the world came together as one to witness and participate in the first journey of man to another celestial body, we can surely say that we have failed in our stewardship of this precious blue oasis.

Are we going to let ignorace and intolerance succeed? Time has almost run out.

What are you going to do? When will you draw the line and declare “NO MORE!”

What are you prepared to do?