They fight like cats and dogs

     I’ve always had a problem with the saying, “they fight like cats and dogs”. Why you might ask. Well, the answer is simple; I know cats and dogs that get along just fine. I know that the most common argument to refute this would be “but that’s not the rule, it is the exception” and I kind of have a problem with that too. As humans living in a pre designed society by other humans, we define what the rule is and what is the exception, therefore you can’t tell me that a cat and a dog are natural enemies when there is living breathing proof that they are not. These two cute little animals are not born hating each other, they learn to, and that nobody can claim to be an innate instinct. But the main point of this writing is not to talk about the differences between cats and dogs these are just mere reflections of the real problem between the human species that populates the Earth, and the problem is tolerance.

     I am completely against tolerance. I think tolerance is the worst thing ever invented by some hateful human being that was not able to conceive love out of his/her heart toward his/her neighbor. For me, tolerance is hate in a Barbie doll Halloween costume, it may look perfect and appealing on the outside but it is hollow on the inside and at the end of the night, it was just a disguise. Tolerance is a “special pass” that allows you not to deal with your problem the right way as long as you avoid it by leaving it alone, as a consequence tolerance implies that you never even try to understand and love that which you don’t give yourself a chance to know and you have been taught to hate. Being tolerant means to “not reject”, it does not mean that you accept and love whatever the subject in question is. Let’s look at it like this, you tolerate vegetables and so you don’t torch the veggies section at the supermarket, but that does not mean you like them, and even if you have to eat them, you will not enjoy them, in short, you still hate them even when you don’t disappear them from the face of the Earth.  At least in my dictionary the most accurate synonym for tolerance is hypocrisy, it will never be a synonym of respect, it will never be a synonym of acceptance and more importantly it will never be a synonym of love. Therefore tolerance is not the solution, education and love will always be.

Inspiration

     I’m sure that at some point in history somebody must have said “it is inspiration what moves the world.” Well, even if they haven’t I think it to be utterly truthful. It is at those moments in which we feel invincible and blessed by inspiration that the most beautiful things come to life. If this was not the truth there would be no space in the world for artists, sculptures, painters and writers. We need inspiration. We need the visit of that candid muse that lights the bulb in our heads and with her soft whisper encourages us to create.  Could we survive in a world without inspiration? I don’t think so. Without it, we would just be boring and definitely bored. But we must never forget that inspiration is a two and sometimes a three way street. It is because of the offspring of our inspiration that others get inspired and create their own versions of reality and beauty and art. Personally I love to write, however I don’t feel encouraged to do it by the world around. I can spend days writing poems and short stories and small editorials/reflections, and afterward go into a down ward spiral of hating the world and the word and not looking to my writing utensils for weeks and sometimes months. I guess deep down inspiration alone is never enough, we need to feel that we have inspired someone else in order for our creation to be worth the time and effort we dedicated into it. Inspiring other becomes the main focus of our own inspiration. Funny huh? But that’s just me.

     There is another thing that I am almost sure of, if people shared inspiration more often, the world would be a better place to live, people would be happier and it would be easier to find a place in the world, and be happy in it.