Why does it seem like, every day, the world has only taught, and therefor only knows, evil. There are a few exemplary cases of good people, but its rarely sensationalized by news, rarely expose`d by the media. The things we hear about most are war, crime, murder, drunken rampages, rape, child porn, etc.

The swell of negativity continues to burden us all, with little emphasis on the good things in life. For that matter, it goes deeper, like this is mimetic of humanity as a whole. The church, for example, holy and just, doesn't even seem very interested in preaching about the virtues, only the sins. If you teach a man only sin, it is all man will know, and if you tell a man not to approach sin, man is curious, he will sin.

But man cannot act upon that which they do not know.

So much about life is endearment, is about the balance of knowledge, in both good and evil. You cannot tell someone something is wrong, or to stop doing it, and then offer no explanation, they are human. The human mind craves answers, craves knowledge, the whole of life is lived, pondering the right and wrong, and good and evil.

But we've taught, lately, only evil, and this has worn us all down, we've forgotten how to be kind to one another, as a majority, whereas a few minority work hard to still use manners and kindness, whats sadder is to see those with goodness in their heart, wear down to the point they break. Good people aren't going to make it ahead in a world where goodness is discarded for the latest popularity poll or glitzy Hollywood Baroness.

Can no one please, be wholesome? Many say that even religious people are wholehearted, and though the country is full to brimming with people that call themselves religious, I have met few with the kind sincerity, understanding, and faith, that would make me believe for one second that their religion wasn't just some exploitation for personal gain, power, or to fill their menial little lives with self-importance, which they abruptly turn upon others, holding high above their head, as though standing some amazing moral high ground, simply because they go to church every sunday, say a few hail-Mary's, and then return again to their life of encriminate evil.

Someone, somewhere, should tell these people, that you cannot lie to Jesus, or Buddha, or Oinari-sama, or whoever your choice god is. We men, and women, were born with a knowledge of right and wrong. Yet we exercise it so infrequently, as to question why we have this knowledge at all.

If you are reading this, and I know you. Next time you feel angry, next time you feel righteous, or like arguing, stop yourself, breath in gently, breath out. Anger is so fleeting, righteousness is false self-validation, arguing is emotion without reason, and none of those things will make you feel wholesome.

Years ago, something called Pay-it-forward existed, yet again, has dwindled, being good requires effort, they say, does it really? It requires no more effort than evil, but its not popular. Oh how to be creatures of intangible darkness, and use the light as something so whimsical.

I don't know why I'm ranting about this, but the world fills me with doubt, just by watching it from day to day. This is a world that any one of us should be ashamed to live in, should be ashamed to allow to happen, with cowardice and fear. Please have faith, have courage, and even if you think it's small in some way, help improve the world in any way you can.

We all need to stop living our lives just for ourselves, I do believe that precept of Buddhism. If you drew a line, and on one side of the line, there was one man, and on the other side, 20,000 people, which side would you be more likely to go to, say, in an argument?

Well certainly, how could a majority be more wrong than a single man? And so, as difficult as it is, Buddhism teaches us that we should learn that all others are much more important than us ourselves, as a singular entity. This I believe is true, with kindness, and understanding, I think we could truly move forward as a people, whereas now, we have stalled. In some ways progressed, in other ways regressed.

Like China and its careless industrial boom, which grew rapidly, and successfully, but at a terrible cost of their climate, safety, and health, we as people have come too far, too fast, obtaining weapons we brandish carelessly, unthinkingly, without a shred of the responsibility that comes with the life at the other end of that barrel. Many would say "what do you feel when you pull the trigger?" and around the net circulates a joking response, with little empathy or mercy, "the soldier shrugs and says, 'Recoil'".

I always want to help, want to change this world. But I feel my insignificance as a man. Feel my insignificance as a member of the vast cosmos, what can I do, I wonder, aside be sincere, and offer these words. And try to always, personally identify the moments where I can abate anger, I can cast aside hatred, I can try to hold no vengeance in my heart or in my head.

I wonder, can you do the same?