A Long Dark Road

A long dark road is ahead. Some people will have flashlights or candles to assist them. They become highly dependant on these tools. The moment these tools refuse to cooperate or just somehow disappear, they are stuck on the long dark road writhing in pain and sorrow, too used to the accompaniment of the light and have become effectively blind without the aid of light. So many will just sit and die there, refusing to continue their journey and being able to live a non vicarious life. So few gather the strength to continue walking the dark path and learn again to walk unaided.

I am beginning to travel on this long dark road. To light, or not light the candle, that is the question.

What Does Being a Supporter at the Olympics mean?

The Olympics today is akin to modern "war". Athletes represent countries and fight for glory (usually and one would hope, without the intention of killing anyone). National pride takes front stage, sometimes above reason. You support the athlete for the reason that the athlete was born on the soil which you were born from. You wouldn't think twice about insulting another athlete from another soil. Yet, this soil is divided by nothing more than imaginary lines; imaginary lines which we, as a human race have come to create and accept without question. Lines shouldn't divide land, that's the job of the ocean.