Take back the night!

Love and light - common. Not so common - love and night. 

When did doing things after dark get scary?  

I remember when I was growing up it was just beaches and parks (as far as public spaces) that were closed after sunset. Why? Maybe some could say resources. But why?  So cities could save money on patrolling them?  Maybe because dumb-asses did stupid things in them after dark? 

What we need to do is to take back the night. Do people of Barrows, Alaska not leave their house for over 65 days?  Or do they just arbitrarily decide when public spaces close? 

Why in some cities have they made it so that if you are merely walking down the street after dark, you are suspected of loitering unless you have a dog tethered to you and that you should be prepared to be stopped by the police in said case?  Merely for walking in non-daytime hours?  Do only bad people come outside after dark?  It shouldn't be that way, just like the LGBT shouldn't be able to confiscate the rainbow symbol. If it's true then we (not the police) need to take back the night and not by forming neighborhood watches but by actually using the streets at night. By actually enjoying our world in all its periods. Maybe that was the best statement William Pharrell could have made with his 24 hours of recording of the "happy" song. I'm not saying that was his intention. Though perhaps that could be extrapolated. That it is our world, our streets, we can be happy (not afraid) in them. The government shouldn't have the right to tell us when and where to use our public spaces, (and most especially not our private ones, accepting that we are following the "harm principal: the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others- not including consensual harm between adults, and purposeful harm to oneself, of course).  Their job is just to be there when and if we need them to be there, not before that time, ensuring we are all coloring between the lines.

 Plus. If I do some dumbass stuff; like drink a fifth of vodka and try and swim across a river then I shouldn't need the police to rescue me, or my family to sue said police for not rescuing me, I should accept that I was a dumbass. Maybe, if there is some kind stranger there, or a loving friend I get talked out of it or helped when I am in need? Maybe..... but it seems to me what we need more of in this world is holding hands and less shackling them. 

I don't know.  That's my take on the situation.  So many topsy turvy things in our world that to address each and every single one would take more lifetimes than I have. M

Stop believing in time.

Think of time as just a marker. A tool, an awareness that a thing is going to happen. Something that you foresee happening, because you knew that timer was going to go off (for example).

 If you stop believing in time then there is no past and no future. Nothing to be concerned about. We'd live once again like animals. Not in the sense that we are "stupid" or apes (al be it they are highly intelligent animals which is why they are always using them as testing for us, as well as mice). But like all animals; that each seem to have their own miraculous qualities, think of translucent blue blood (like in those stingrays(?))that have such a close structure as ours that they use their blood to test vaccines and other chemicals. Limbs that just grow back, animals that can find their way home a continent away (slight exaggeration?). These animals have no sense of time but they have qualities I would clearly envy (and love to posses), shooting quills into my opponents, being able to have him carry the babies (mwahahahahahaha), beheading our mate the minute after conception (praying mantis?) [maybe only couples that have been married over 20 years get this though] and grant me that this is from a girls prospective. Yes these stand out to me. Forgive me for being a female. That's just what it seems it takes to be perceived as an equal. It takes apologizing for it. Why do you think women in high positions of any field, science, politics, engineering get so sick and tired of it. Imagine having to apologize to everyone everywhere for everything; well at least this one thing (being so smart) and imagine how much harder the pretty ones have to apologize [not only are they gorgeous, they are smart, they're getting it from all sides - women to, or most especially them, I'm sure]. Wow. That was a wide veering.

 These animals don't know of time. You can explain it to some degree (the timer on the cake way), but not on the fundamental level we take it to, they just can't, or at least I hope to God they never do. Because that is what makes us miserable. It's this constant thinking of something that isn't currently happening, while the world (life) IS happening. It's like how you shouldn't text and drive. Why? Because you can only have so many things happening simultaneously and then you are overwhelmed to the point of making mistakes. Mistakes there are no coming back from (up to and including a lot of times.... death). So there are people telling you not to, ads, non-profit "things to know" type commercials, and laws all advising you to pay attention. Pay attention to one thing and one thing alone......driving. Not because your incapable, but because at some point and time you could be and that will be the time you might very well most regret in your entire life. So your only job is to do that one thing, because it is a very serious thing, because it wields a lot of power. And it takes practice in humility (as in humbleness) to wield power correctly.

 Very few of us are a Joan of Arc right out the gate? Which don't we wish we all were? I mean come on? I don't care what they say about that chick. She was fucking cool! She managed to do that, and maybe she talked to herself....wow- so fucking what, she saw images? Aren't those images what led her to be who she was? These things don't happen mutually and exclusively, separately apart most times. They are because she was who she was she was able to do all she did. Don't listen to the propaganda and it's all propaganda. Point is!!!!!!

If you stopped believing in time no one would have any control over you ever. EVER. And isn't that what we want? Ultimately we want to live how we want to live, leave when we want to leave, go where we want to go, see who we want to see, dance when/where we want to dance, sing what/where we want to sing, love who and when we want to love, and be truly, deeply happy. We are fooled to believe that we don't want this. That it's bad to want this. It's not that it's bad to want this. That is absolutely not true. If we lead with humility (with our hearts) we would lead the right way. And how we get there is by being AWARE of the entire situation (of what's going on around us in life- as much as possible, as much as we can know, which when you listen to your heart and gut you'll realize is actually a lot more than you think and probably all you need to know) to make the right choice. And the only way to be fully and completely aware of the situation is to pay complete attention to it. Not let any (think past/present things) distract you from it. Then you will always make the right choice because you will be leading with your heart, you will always be fully in the present. Fully doing what you are doing right this moment, which is living. You just need to be silent and still sometimes to hear your heart speaking. When your mind isn't chatter boxing with what it should have done or needs to do or is trying to do. When your mind is just focused on what is it doing instead of a story of what it's doing then it is one with it all. Then it is truly happy. Then it is in line with love. Then it is no longer afraid, then it is doing the right thing, then it is at peace. When you are just doing life at the exact moment it happens. Living each breath to its fullest. Then. You are truly free