Yes, But Why?

We have spent our individual lives learning all the rules. I’m not sure that there is one rule we don’t know for wherever we are, whoever we are and whatever time we are there. We know them damn rules by heart, body, mind and soul. What we don’t know is who decided and why they decided. So, I’m suggesting to you that we get real about it. Every time we find ourselves struggling to maintain the rules or maybe knowing the rule doesn’t make sense but trying to live by it anyway, let’s ask ourselves, “Yes, but why?”

We believe that chemical medicine will heal us even when the commercial rattles off all the ways it can fail us including death, because we’ve been taught that is the only way and have completely stopped believing in the intelligence our own bodies and the intuition held within. Using chemical medicine is the most excepted way of healing. Yes, but why? Finding healing straight from nature like the old ways, not well received. Yes, but why?

We believe that when someone is different than we are, that the difference is wrong because it’s against our own nature or looks different than we look. If someone not like us isn’t wrong, then that might mean we are wrong. We just cannot allow others to be who they are. Yes, but why?

We believe in trends and dress codes when we consider how we should look. If someone steps outside what we consider to be the rules on how we should look, we think that is wrong. It would be frowned on if we wore a prom dress to work accept for on Halloween. Yes, but why?

We believe a book that tells stories of rape, genocide, child murder and severe punishment for the slightest things like talking back to a parent, gathering wood on Sunday, eating shellfish and thinkin’ your neighbor is cute, all commanded/handed down by a “white bearded man in the sky.” Yes, but why?

Those rules are there for a reason. Those rules stop us from accepting one another, they keep us fighting and hating just so our attention is on our perceived enemy so that we don’t ever notice that we are all the same. We are each a part of a whole, our own little piece of what collectively is humanity. When we make others wrong it makes us feel like what we are is right. Our media outlets, politicians and preachers will stop getting rich if we ever become convinced that we are all equal. They are all part of those who tell us the rules and we invest fully thinking there will be some payout to keep following the rules, we never stop waiting on it and the payout never comes.

It is up to you to wake up. If you try just a little, you will see what we’ve been encoded in and you’ll be your own effin’ Neo.

Yes, but why?