Listen To Your Heart

​After what I would call a peaceful evening of doom scrolling, watching funny videos, and listening to some good music. I fell asleep listening to a podcast not known for its heated political rhetoric. But later that evening I was awakened by a violent dream, all while listening to that same podcast. Somewhere during the show, the banter must have gotten heated, and two individuals, from the same political party, got into a shouting match about common sense party policy. It was crazy.

After a few moments of calming down, I quickly turned off the podcast. Then switched over to a Zen podcast to just chill out. But apparently towards the early morning hours, I had a second violent dream (not as intense as the first) all while listening to a guided meditation. Again, crazy. Sitting here thinking about it, I can only assume the shouting match of the first podcast was still lingering in my dreams. Telling me that tonight, I am going to listen to elevator music instead.

I mean damn the first dream was detailed and intense, while the second dream seemed to follow the same violent plot. With a somewhat different situation. I’m not much on having fighting dreams, but at least I held my own and knew when to leave the situation. Thinking about it now, it all goes to show that all the violent rhetoric we sling around can have serious consequences. I ain’t got to tell you nothing about what we all witness on your local and national news. Cause we all know, “If it bleeds, it leads” mentality they all have.

I mean I grew up with Johny Quest and a Coyote trying to eat a Roadrunner. Yet I can’t recall a mass school shooting other than one on a college campus in the late sixties. Now there so common across the nation, they don’t even raise an eyebrow unless five or more have died. I know I could get way deeper down this rabbit hole, but all I am going to say is: This ain’t right. There’s no such thing as having to win every fight or never admitting you were wrong. Whatever happened to compromise and reaching a middle ground. Life is too damn fragile for a “my way or the highway” attitude. I’ve learned that lesson the hard way. So stop listening to your idiot fair-weather friends and instead listen to your heart.   

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