The truth is that you are living your life in an illusion.  Because you are healthy, and have some money, you assume it will continue as such. Because your parents are alive, because your children are doing well, because you are employed, you believe everything will continue as such. This is simply an illusion.  You are one wrong turn, one distracted driver, one hostile take over, one premature baby, one unplanned pregnancy, one small hole in the vascular system of your or a loved one’s brain, a few missed breathes from an entirely different life path.  Additionally you are one 100 year flood, one hurricane, one earthquake, one severe weather event away from potential disaster.  The doomsday clock is currently set at 2 1/2 minutes to midnight. This is the closest it has been since 1953.  If you were on the Titanic, you would be fighting to get on the life boats, and the ship would be rising up preparing to sink.  But we go on, in our illusion.  Well America, guess what, its time to wake up! Its time to burst that bubble, get out of that illusion, and get busy fixing the things that can be fixed, and coming up with solutions to fix the things that can’t be fixed.  Your illusion, and your stubbornness in refusing to open your eyes and to really see, is one of the reasons we are where we are. As Pogo famously said “I have met the enemy and he is us!”

© words by Dan DeMarle