Amazing how life leads you just when you think you have it all together. We all think we have all the control over our destiny but then something happens and you know that this is not true, that there is another force that is beating the path before you and all you are doing is blindly walking it. When we finally open our eyes, we are overcome by the intensity of what we see and feel.

So many lives are touched by others and not one knows that the other exists until we fall upon them. It’s a sad truth about people and their own surroundings, we think that we don’t touch others. The truth is that everyone of us does touch another…deeply.

Life is fragile and so are people’s feelings towards themselves and towards others. We keep to ourselves, more and more afraid of being touched by the one or the many because we are afraid of hurt. We trust few, none or even ourselves. We make ourselves out to be cold people, ever having that shield thrust before us letting everyone know that you have to talk to the shield because what lies beneath that shield is fragile and soft. No one wants to show that soft side because there are others who will want to use that against us, or so we fear.

Our bodies were ravaged by unfeeling people who think they know best, that they have a job to do and they think they are doing well not taking in account of who you are. We give names with abbreviations that mean we are to be boxed into a corner, neatly packed away so that another can re-box you and store you under the table because you are one of many that they cannot deal with only because you are different from them. This is the real cold only because no one wants to see your hurt and your fragility in case it affects them. They would rather point the finger and say “There goes an abnormal human being and I am their saviour, I will make them normal.” It gives wonder to who is the abnormal one : the unfeeling or the feeling.

We should be ever mindful that we don’t affect another adversely. A terse word will break people, push them away or invite other terse words and no one feels the better for it. The only one that benefits is the one that stays in the cold never thinking that is where they are

If ever you get to paint, sing, play music, write, fix or sew you would like to leave something of a marker that you were here, that you lived and breathed and felt. Something that let’s you know that you are alive, that another cared or cares for you. We live for each other and yet we pretend that this isn’t so always hoping that the one will notice and become a part of you. So we carry on our lives in the cold getting exactly what we asked for, not ever showing that we crave the warm.

What is wrong with showing that we are feeling humans, that our lives are fragile; what’s wrong with being sensitive, to appreciate those that are not like you, those that think in different ways and means no matter how it is labelled ….. What is wrong with being human ?

We are online constantly, we trade thoughts like a commodity and when the computer goes off, so goes off our lives in that moment. As we look around ourselves in our immediate surrounds, nothing has changed. The coffee pot hasn’t moved, the bills still stare at you taking away your hard earned sweat and the walls are still the same color. Nothing has changed…except you. We are all affected by one thing, thought, feeling, gesture and one human being. Will you be the one for another ?

Affect someone today, just one, and give them encouragement to affect another one. Sooner or later, you will be the one.