Reality is the strongest drug

The biggest mistake we can make...as individuals, as members of small social groups, but also as an entire species...is to become so much accustomed to misfortune, pain, exploitation, scarcity and irrationality... that we begin to see it as "the natural way." What we so foolishly call as the "reality of things..." 

You've probably heard this expression a thousand times by now...and not just from the reporters, the politicians and the wall street business men who credit all their own wrong-doings to the "reality of things." No... You've probably heard your own parents tell you the exact same thing. "You have to study hard and go to college if you want to be successful son, that's the reality of things." And I'm almost positive you hear teachers saying that to you every single day at school. "You have to be successful in life, make money and have a career or else you're going to die poor and lonely."

That is not the reality of things...that is not the real world.

But what really worries me, is when this same false mentality is applied to matters of social injustice, war-profiteering and especially when it comes to people's well-being. "You have to pay ridiculous amounts of money for drugs and doctors if you want to be healthy, that's the reality of things." "Countries will always control and exploit the smaller, weaker countries, it's natural." "There's millions of people starving to death as we speak, it's sad of course but what can you do? That's just how the world is..."

There is nothing  "natural" about exploiting people's sufferings!

Letting people starve to death will never be the "reality" of things!

I live in the real world!

And in my world...

Fake smiles...

and real smiles...

don't mix!

Fake promises...

and REAL promises...

in the REAL world...

don't mix!

Fake peacekeepers...

and REAL peacekeepers...

in the REAL world...

can't mix!

                  Fake men!                                                                         And REAL men!

in the REAL world...

...will never mix!!