Love is the wave I ride

Driven by the one who challenges pride,

 i find myself wondering how

 I am to counteract this world

 that centers around fame as 

being the goal of life.

To be the best and to make the most.

To have to most illustrious and shiny things.

To have closets so big that you could house 

a whole family in them.  Is this the goal of life? 

To acquire as much crap as possible so you 

could leave all of it behind when you pass away?

After studying 

Buddhism, 

Hinduism,

 Islam,

 Christianity,

 and Judaism, 

there is one thing that stands out.

  Despite their differences 

they all hold true to the need to help those around you. 

 To love people as you love yourself.

How much better would the world be.

well, It would be if people loved themselves enough. 

 I don't mean self-absorbed people who only 

THINK about themselves.

  I mean valuing yourself as a person 

and having enough respect for yourself 

that there is no need for

 self infliction, 

or no need for depression, 

no need for sexual relations for

 emotional satisfaction.  

According to the World Health Organization

in 2000, there were 1 million deaths just to suicide.

and in the last 45 years suicide rates have increased by 60% worldwide

COMMON NOW!

not to mention that 90% of these are because of depression, substance abuse, etc.

I don't know about you, but that just breaks my heart. Now I am not saying that people can't have insecurities. God knows I've cried myself plenty a night because of mine but I still value my life and know that there is something I can do to to benefit others.  Instead of searching for fame or for fortune that ultimately leads to more stress than we need.  Why not live a life worth living. Why not make others lives better just as we wish others would make ours.  

Live to Love, and Love to live.

Above Photo by BR PHOTOGRAPHY