Comparatively Speaking

if you’re reading this piece right now, you’ve got the world at your fingertips--- might not feel like it, might feel like your own life is gonna come crashing down upon your head, might have a thousand skeletons in your closet just trying to get out & do you in (or so you think), but yeah, you’re in the driver’s seat here, at the top of the evolutionary food chain. yup, if you’re reading this right now, it means you aren’t under water, means you aren’t under ground, means you aren’t reduced to ash & sitting on your loved one’s mantelpiece---probably means you’re not laying half-dead in a hospital bed drinking your food through a straw, probably means that the man hasn’t decided to royally screw with you & box you up inside one of its societal garbage cans for a stretch until you might gain their approval, getting out on “good behavior.” if you’re reading this right now, you have a roof over your head (hasn’t been blown away, or burnt down), you aren’t being tortured by a rebel army in the middle of a land that nobody cares about because there’s no oil there, you’re not being tortured, molested, beat, etc. by any of the unfortunate miscreants already found “unworthy” of life by a society that let them fall through the cracks to begin with & yes, if you’re reading this right now, you’re not living on the street, searching for a soup kitchen & a place to rest while the night passes over. in fact, if you are reading this right now, someone cared about you long enough to raise you or support your existence financially, emotionally, etc. long enough so that you could learn how to read, so that you could learn how to type, so that you could learn how to use the internet & of course, so that you had access to it, however it is that this came to be--- somebody has kept you fed & breathing until you could do it yourself. might be willing to bet that if you’re reading this right now you aren’t alone (in the sense that if you die before finishing the end of this piece, absolutely no one will know or care)---for you may very well be an integral part of a network of relationships that on the best of days, brings a mutual good feeling to all those involved & on the worst, bring support to those who have it comparatively bad, so as to keep the network thriving & afloat, continuing to survive successfully & continuing to bring sustenance, making it easier for each one of us to make it, in this big big world of chaos, destruction & death, which up until now, we’ve escaped somehow, as a direct result of one another.