Follow the Turning World

Sometimes it gets so slow and the world falls into a sluggish turning as though the globe itself has tired of the same old routine. Each day comes and then it passes, leaving no memory of its going. We have been here; it seems, for so long, each of us waiting for some sort of sign that the world knows about us.

We are wrong, though, to expect some kind of acknowledgement of our existence from an indifferent world like this. There are no gods out there taking an interest in us or our lives. There is no destiny or fate shaping our lives. There is just us.

However, a world without gods, without fates, without destiny is far from a world of despondency. It is a world that we can shape, at least our own part of it. With no gods to satisfy, then we can have a world built to human scale, not one that panders to the arbitrary whims of those who would claim to speak for the gods they invent in order to twist us and distort us into shapes they can control.

Those that claim to speak for fate, destiny or political utopias of whatever stripe too, speak only for themselves and the way they would turn and use our lives for their own ends.

We should follow the turning world as it turns to face a new day and turn our backs on all of these false prophets, leaders and speakers for their gods. We should reach out and take the hands of those closest to us, choose the road we want to take and walk off together down it, away from those who would wish to make us, and our lives, in their own image.