Silver linings or cover ups?

This is not meant to offend anyone, it is the perspective of a fictional character and should not be taken out of context of the story into which the character is written.

Every cloud has a silver lining. Every failure is a lesson. Every tunnel, no matter how dark, ends in light.

Bitter sweet; deafening silence; familiar stranger; perfect imperfections...

In all bad, there is good, and as much as some would prefer to deny it, in all good, there is bad.

In this context, purity does not exist. Nothing is only one thing. Everything, all of us, we’re kaleidoscopes, ever changing and impossible to ever fully decipher, beautiful.
The society we have created is a place of conformity, of uniformity, of mediocrity. It’s unfeeling. It is those who dare to do more than simply exist who make it beautiful. They make it everything that it could never be on its own, they are the silver lining.

However while so many are all too ready to jump at the chance to look on the bright side, there are even more of us who are all too comfortable on the other side of that coin. Our flaws and our short comings are simply too much for some to resist pointing out.

Here are the facts, the same beautiful people who kiss babies and make our world worth living in, they are polluting our environment, commissioning the manufacture of nuclear weapons and contributing to global warming, they’re thieves and liars just like the rest of us and yet they are held up on this sick pedestal. Perfect reputations are sold to the highest bidder and compassion is bought by the pound. Why? What gives them this right? What makes them any better than the rest of us? Why do we allow such levels of hypocrisy? Maybe we’re just looking for something to complain about, if everything was good and right in the world, if everything was fair and just, well then whatever would we have to complain about?

After all, no one is just one thing; we’re complicated, unpredictable, dangerous, ever changing and ever scrambling to save face.

Maybe all of those old sayings are right, maybe nothing is what it seems, maybe we make things into what we subconsciously want them to be, we see what we want to see and share what we feel would benefit us most. Life is one giant rat race and personal gain is the prize.

Don’t forget the silver lining though, never forget to ignore the fact that the big ugly cloud that we’ve created is staring us straight in the eye, why acknowledge that when it’s so much easier to point out the fabricated silver lining?

The answer is simple:

It’s easier. It’s easier to pretend that everything is okay, easier to believe that someone else will recycle; someone else will save the rainforests and donate to charity and be king and caring and decent. It’s easier to ignore the wars because it’s not like they’re going to affect any of us personally.

Out of sight out of mind, right?

Wrong.

It’s sad. It’s sad, so sad how good we’ve become at ignoring what’s going on around us. It’s sad that the thing we’re best at is closing our eyes to the things we don’t want to see, closing our ears to the things we don’t want to hear and closing our minds to the thoughts we would rather ignore...