Saturday, June 24, 2023

The Lottery of Life


Life is a lottery. Existence is not a made-to-order

journey bookended by life and death but a chance

encounter with destiny whose direction can be

altered but then again dependent on circumstances

no one anticipates and grounded by the inheritance

of reasoning skills and emotional stability gained in

maturity. Living can be a comfortable exploration

of the possibilities that stream into some lives while

for others an interminable grind of misery. Offspring

nurtured or neglected, the wellspring of confidence.

Born to a historical culture of violent reprisals for

ancient injuries or in a land of plenty, security and

forbearance. To wealth or indigence. Inherent reason

and intelligence or cunning cutthroat sociopathy. A

world once vast, divided into its separate realms of

bitter clannish hostility versus dominions of patient

acceptance. Social worlds collide in a division of values

and aspirations where migrants hungering for the lives

they view through the medium of media's alluring

message acquire a transit ticket to early death or an

alternative future of disappointed struggle to access the

wealth that beguiled them, opt to achieve their dream

via an underground criminality justifying ambition.

 

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