future-thoughts

Mood: It feels GOOOOD to be alive
Listening to: Lives winding their way home after a hard day

There's a gap in our society.  It's been there for years, but these days it's starting to form a rift like the Mariana Trench...

The gap betweenrich and poor; it's alway been extreme sure, but there used to be a middle-class sandwiched between the two.  Longing for the freedom to say 'buggar it' yet striving for the freedom that wealth brings.

It's disappearing fast, the middle class.  Along with it values and social norms have become a dichotomy.  The wealthy do as they please... anything they want.  At the same time the poor are being made to live by more and more conservative value systems, imposed by the rich to oppress the poor.

Without the middle class, the nature of society changes.  The balance of power shifts and there is no going back.

It's the middle ages being repeated all over again in a sense.  How can a peasant overthrow a lord?  Well we now know how... it's just that the weapons have got bigger, the walls higher and the gap wider.

The only way through is to be successful, to be your own master and own your own adventure, whatever you choose it to be.

Just mind the gap, or your future could be: someone else's servant.

Mood: It's looking up
Listening to: The sounds of people opening car doors with hangers

I know this sounds like a dumb question, but perhaps it depends on the context.

A coat hanger next to a beautiful suit represents wealth, the mark of a successful person perhaps?  It is a coat hanger; it hangs clothes.

Take that same hanger and put it next to a car, with the keys locked in the ignition.  Then it's a symbol of hope, of future freedom.  The potential for unlocking fun, adventure.  It's a way to make the world a happier place.

Now we see a 16 year old pregnant girl and a coat hanger.  That same hanger takes on a whole new meaning does it not?  Suppression of women, poverty, lack of education, the divide between rich and poor.  The classic cycle that exists within circles of people in the lower classes of society.

It's a metaphor for the future of this planet.  We have a number of possible future realities, but we are starting with the same things; the same objects, thoughts, dreams and ideas for the future.  It depends on how we use what we have got.  That will determine where we end up.

I would like to think of the world as a locked car, but in the back of my mind I can't help but think that a lot of people whould like it to be the pregnant girl, as long, of course, as it wasn't their baby daughter with hanger in hand.

The future is in your hands.  unlock your destiny, or ruin your life. 

My future looks beautiful - how about yours?