divineguitar

A buddy of mine encouraged me to get into this line / sector of working professing, ‘see the world for what it really is,’ which has been both a blessing and a curse — I’ve got to see a lot of different versions of what people consider ‘right’, and I’ve seen disparity on so many accounts.

• Who can complain about not having 31 flavors of ice cream when their baby is sick and doesn’t have the medicine it needs?  how about complaining about the job you don’t like vs. standing in line at an embassy hoping you’ll be in the 1 in 1000 to be picked for that visa?
• How can you win hearts and minds when you’re locked, loaded and ready in a 7 inch armoured vehicle and state of the art technology while old school Honda’s drive by and grannies and children are walking the streets?

what’s virtuous?  in the long run what truly ‘helps’ people or crusades?  I think the answer to that is understanding what goes on with people and seeing the world from their point of view. 

• Instead of arguing the semantics of ideology, who wants to help solve the seemingly simple question of how to make things quit blowing up?  How do you weaken secular influence and untangle this knot of guns, politics and religion?
• Continuity is established through engagement, grassroots dialogue can work wonders in understanding geopolitics — this can’t come from armchair warriors, you have to get out and mingle, see it for yourself, make a friend or two from a different nation, ethnic variety, religion until the ever impressive ‘melting pot’ erodes prejudice and builds tolerance.

I didn’t know what excessive was until recently.  Going back to the modern world I’ll be grateful and observant of much more.  Going back to cut-throat office politics is going to be hard, and I will avoid the water cooler for fear I might want to smash it.