Reply #45: Everything under the sun

[H2O Man]

is exactly as it should be .... or it wouldn't be. There is no reason to be either depressed or afraid. Rather, it is important to think that those feelings are a normal reaction ..... and that they come as the result of your putting in a tremendous amount of hard work in the past 7-10 days .... and much of that work found you elated and inspired. A coin always has two sides .... it can NOT be otherwise .... and so what you are feeling now is temporary.

Gandhi used to say that humanity is an ocean, and just because a few drops in the ocean are dirty, it doesn't make the ocean dirty. Of course today, we see that we have had a toxic spill of neocon waste in the ocean .... but it will come to pass.

Do you remember the saying that is used in AA? About changing what you can, accepting that which you can't change, and understanding the difference? That's part of this. We are just people, doing the best we can to protect humanity from an un-natural force.

When Martin got depressed (more often than people may realize, because he took SO MUCH upon his shoulders!) he loved to recite a poem by James Russell Lowell (and Martin often "edited" it)

Once to every person and nation,
Comes the moment to decide
In the strife of truth and falsehood
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause God's new Messiah
Offering each the gloom or blight
And the choice goes by forever
Twixt that darkness and that light.

Though the cause of evil prosper
Yet 'tis truth alone is strong
Though her portion be the scaffold
And upon the throne be wrong
And yet that scaffold sways the future
And behind that dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow
Keeping watch above his own.

Either Martin Luther King, Jr or George W. Bush is telling the truth. Only one of the two of them could possibly have a grasp on what is true, real, and honest. The other is either delusional or a lying carp. I think Martin lived the truth to the fullest extent humanly possible.