Could You?
It sometimes amazes me, when I stop to thin about it: the lack of purpose with which most of us live our lives. I myself find, that when examined, my life holds very little purpose. I have no reason to feel as I feel, or do as I do, I simply am. No wonder so many people are depressed, or lonely, or angry. If I was granted one wish, it would be simply this: To have a reason. A reason to live, to fight, to feel, to create.
If you have ever studied the culture of ancient Japan, then you have heard of the courage of the legendary Samurai. These were men with purpose. Men with an honor so beyond our grasp that we can not even begin to imagine it. What do we have to die for? We send our young men and women to foreign countries to free a people from an oppression we don’t even understand. We die for a cause that is not our own. What do we have?
Honor and courage.. What concepts! Courage is by far the virtue I honor most. Without courage, what are we but dogs, cowering from the man with the club? God, what courage it would take to die for a belief! Can you even imagine it? Can you even wrap your mind around that thought? To stand in front of an army of thousands, with a reason to fight, and the courage to see it through. Were it possible, I would have a death like that. A death fighting for something that I believe in. Not the belief of a country, or a society, but my belief, my passion.
I think that we, as a whole, have lost our sense of honor. Today’s society is so deranged… So without an artistic emotion, or abstract thought. We’ve lost what makes us human. We just stumble through life, trying to get by on what we can. We sell ourselves short and degrade the lives we’ve been given. Would any of us have the courage to fight for honor anymore? Could we reach back to the day when the sword was law, and the man who stood his ground was the man who was respected most?
This world is a world of lies. A world of deceit and subterfuge. What happened to us? What happened to our honor? Think about it, if you will. And if you do, think about your reason for living. What would you die for?
If you have ever studied the culture of ancient Japan, then you have heard of the courage of the legendary Samurai. These were men with purpose. Men with an honor so beyond our grasp that we can not even begin to imagine it. What do we have to die for? We send our young men and women to foreign countries to free a people from an oppression we don’t even understand. We die for a cause that is not our own. What do we have?
Honor and courage.. What concepts! Courage is by far the virtue I honor most. Without courage, what are we but dogs, cowering from the man with the club? God, what courage it would take to die for a belief! Can you even imagine it? Can you even wrap your mind around that thought? To stand in front of an army of thousands, with a reason to fight, and the courage to see it through. Were it possible, I would have a death like that. A death fighting for something that I believe in. Not the belief of a country, or a society, but my belief, my passion.
I think that we, as a whole, have lost our sense of honor. Today’s society is so deranged… So without an artistic emotion, or abstract thought. We’ve lost what makes us human. We just stumble through life, trying to get by on what we can. We sell ourselves short and degrade the lives we’ve been given. Would any of us have the courage to fight for honor anymore? Could we reach back to the day when the sword was law, and the man who stood his ground was the man who was respected most?
This world is a world of lies. A world of deceit and subterfuge. What happened to us? What happened to our honor? Think about it, if you will. And if you do, think about your reason for living. What would you die for?