#rethink

'Resolve to Rethink, Reuse & Recycle!'

What if the reason Grumley was honorably discharged from the Marquisate was because he refused to hurt Booker. Like, what if Booker was doing his usual conman hijinks, and got caught by the Marquisate, and Grumley was in charge of guarding him, and despite the two beaing at odds, they just kinda click and Booker convinces him to come with him and live life as vagabonds together.

-3- I love it so so much. I can see the vision.

Hours pass by into days,

Days pass by into months,

Months pass by into years.

He asks me," Why do your thoughts linger over the lost moments?"

I answer with inquiries-

How are you not grieving over the hours that slipped through the hands of yesterday?

How are you nonchalant amid life's "could have beens"?

How do you go on about your mere existence without reflecting on bygone days?

It is entirely overwhelming, the state of the world. Climate Change, political corruption, corporate dystopia, hate and violence. It takes me by surprise how even knowing about a refugee on the other side of the world being sent back can affect me.

It is not The End. Even in an utterly worst case scenario, like nuclear war, it's not The End. There would be survivors, and those survivors would do everything they can to survive. But that's worst case, and we're far from that.

You've got a sense of powerlessness. You can't make Musk or Murdoch or The Koch's or a screaming orange colostomy bag stop what they're doing.

You know what you can do? You can put out the recycling for collection. You can compost your left overs in a tiny bin in your kitchen. You can feed that plant by your window that's by all accounts is already dead. You can sew a patch onto your torn trousers. You can give your friend, neighbour, or stranger, a potato. Or a joke. Or a bit of advice you learned to be effective. You can find an old book on carpentry, and learn how to fix that creaky step in your apartment.

But why do any of this while the world is burning? It is a complete waste of effort and energy, right? It may be. Maybe there will never be enough of us to turn the world around. So why even try?

Because you are a world. We see things from our own point of view, where we are at the center. At that may sound selfish or egotistical. Don't do the good things for the other world, do it for your own world, and how you build it. Do the things that make your world better, your mind, your body, your home.

Build the bridges to other worlds. To your friends, your family, your lovers, your children, even to strangers. When you've gotten your world stable, help them with theirs, and maybe they'll help you too.