Take a Walk...

Who are we to condemn you? We are equally flawed… equally tainted… equally fighting our own demons, and drowning ourselves in our own tears. We too have faltered; we too have fallen and bruised ourselves. Is it fair then, that just because your bruise is visible and larger than ours, we have the right to torment you?

No we… at least I do not.

With freedom comes responsibility. With pleasure comes pain, with peace comes war, with hope comes disillusionment, and with every me comes a you. So we meander around life not knowing that this meandering is… what we need to focus on. All those parading with their theories of life’s purpose or super purpose can go fish!

If meandering is what we are meant to do then I think I’d rather walk with you. Who wants to walk each step of the way being judged and judging? Can’t we enjoy our walk till it lasts?–Commenting on the path’s direction or the absence of one; experiencing the exhilaration of wind blowing through our hair; having to cut through streams of undergrowth; muttering incomprehensible sentences and paragraphs through our breathlessness, while trying to get to the other side of the hill; crossing oceans, seas, or rivers, either by traversing through it or happily gliding upon it; to find ourselves when we are lost and then rejoice on being just there –lost.

This is what we are meant to do…right?

So they gather round you looking with contempt… eyes boring holes through you, reducing you to tatters with every glare, stare, and abuse. I feel like I’m surrounded by prickles. I know they are prickles because I can feel sharp jabs of pain on my back. I look at you. They hand me a stone too, forcing it into my hands pressing it into my flesh. The sharpened tip causes my scarlet blood to ooze out. Scarlet…

He says then, “Let he who has not sinned throw the first stone.” I assume he included me in the he, though I am not a he!

The pricks on my back are decreasing… Are there any left? I throw the stone at my feet. I do not condemn you. I walk towards you. Let’s go for a walk you and me. Let’s walk together. Let’s just be.