‘Everything is connected. The world will take me where I need to go. I am a leaf in the stream of creation’ – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
My Race
I am a big believer in destiny. We all have a reason for being alive, we all have a purpose. That is why the earlier quote is what I attach to this stage of my life. There was this question going around social media, what would you title this chapter of your life? I did not have an answer but now I know, this chapter of my life is titled ‘the race’.
For so long I have been lazy. I wrote pieces that conveyed my anger at the pace my life is moving, my disappointment at this so-called blog. I said ‘I should probably wake up before this shit passes me by’ (I Should). After my January trial month, I’m finally starting my year. I guess this is me waking up, this is me tying my laces and getting ready to take on this race.
The picture shows a large group of people running and there can only be one winner but why can’t we all win? In my life now, I have an amazing set up of creative people around me. Also I keep making new connections in the most random of situations. We’re all in a race but we’re in it together. Chasing different goals but aiming for the same finish line; to better our lives. I hope we cross the finish line together as we should all understand that it is not a personal race.
It’s one race and we should all join hands and help but that’s not the way life works. Egos and pride creep in at different stages, people find their feet slower than others. As much as I want to say I am Mo Farah (the last in the picture but ends up winning). I hope my team is Mo Farah and we come out of nowhere and shock the world…forever.
Our Race
We have never truly come together as the human race to join hands and do something other than going to war. People in the world have clouded ideals and values about life. About who they see fit to be in their environment and that is what is holding us back. The picture shows people from different cultures coming together to run a race. They run it fairly (if they’re not using drugs), they run the race without trying to trip someone up along the way. Which is what we as the human race are doing to each other now.
I don’t want to get into it as we all know about the second coming of Hitler and the rules and regulations he is changing. He does not know the world cannot function if people are segregated. Which then means communities won’t develop as quick because these people can’t join in.
We see examples of sportsmanship behaviour in sporting events. Helping a fellow runner cross the finish line if they’re too tired is one example. Kicking the ball out of play if a player on the opposition team is injured is another. But I can’t see that display of togetherness around me. People have gotten too attached to their own personal race. They forgot their own race can’t be sustained without other people’s races functioning.
For example, the store you own will lose money if population in your area decreases due to the Muslim ban. Yet you’re happy because the Muslim man who owns the other store has been deported? The Muslim ban will make a lot of companies that rely on immigrants and refugees lose employees.
‘If you’re a young American starting a taxi company, you’re up and coming in building your brand. You hire a bunch of refugees, you hire them as they are the most available, affordable and ready to work. You will lose employees to the Muslim ban and therefore lose business’ – Nabil.
We can all co-exist and that’s what we all need to understand.
The Race
‘The race’ is everyone joining hands and crossing the finish line as one. We need to understand one cannot survive without the other, we are all better off together. The quicker we realise this, the sooner we will progress.
‘We’re all in the same race, no matter your race. We’re all racing to get somewhere in life, to be somebody. Race shouldn’t mean anything in terms of success, we’re all on the same planet just trying to make it’ – Shannah.
In the words of Shia LaBeouf, ‘he will not divide us’, they will not divide us.
Hak Gway
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