The Dream

"Last week I had the strangest dream, where everything was exactly how it seemed."

This quote from the song Sleeping In by The Postal Service describes my life perfectly. Reality is far less real than that of my dreams. The things that seem normal in to my conscious mind are incomparable to the subconscious of my dreams. In my dreams, police in the "greatest country on Earth," would never even think about shooting unarmed black protesters marching for equal rights. In my dreams, middle aged men do not kidnap, rape, and kill 8 year old girls. In my dreams, if someone has a problem with someone else, they work it out by themselves, they do not send their countries young men and women to a war over their simple grudge. My natural subconscious is unable to comprehend these acts, while my waken conscious is constantly bombarded by vision and stories of this hateful reality. The absolute corruption of the human mind has created this world. Every single human has be tainted by the reality society has placed upon us. It is cemented into our brains at a very young age, and is practically impossible to get rid of. But it is the duty of each and everyone of us to attempt to rid ourselves of the current societies rules of reality.

You may ask, "how do we rid ourselves of these rules?" Well, the answer is simple in theory, but extremely hard in practice. Be kind, be loving, be accepting, be tolerant, and be peaceful. Have integrity, have faith (not necessarily religion) , have trust, and have a voice. We can all live in a reality our subconscious' can understand if we follow these basic ideals. Debates will occur, but they will be debates, not arguments laced with emotion. People will disagree, but with patience, acceptance, and tolerance, agreements will be meet with no violence or persecution.

The problem is that we will never achieve such a society on a large scale. Because people have the tendency to do whatever will get them to the top, no matter who it will hurt. And there will always be at least one person who is willing to sacrifice everyone else, for his or her personal gain.

And that is why I sleep so much. I am simply embarrassed to live in this reality. And I would rather hide in my mind until the day I can truly be myself.