Imagine

DHS 7/100



Things To Think

Think in ways you've never thought before
If the phone rings, think of it as carrying a message
Larger than anything you've ever heard.
Vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats.

Think that someone may bring a bear to your door,
Maybe wounded and deranged; or think that a moose
Has risen out of the lake, and he's carrying on his antlers
A child of your own whom you've never seen.

When someone knocks on the door, think that he's about
To give you something large; tell you you're forgiven.
Or that it's not necessary to work all the time, or that it's
Been decided that if you lie down no one will die.

Robert Bly


The sad fact of life today is that almost nobody anymore is willing to think in ways they aren't used to. We think and live in ruts, as deep as the Grand Canyon and as wide as the Pacific Ocean. While millions, if not billions, of people are willing to think of world peace, imagine all six billion of us actually demanding it of our politicians. Imagine that you hugged two people tomorrow and that they promised to pass it forward, and kept that promise. Could everyone in the world be hugged within one 24 hour period?

Imagine no inner-city gangs. Imagine no organized crime. Imagine no children dying of starvation. Imagine a solution for homelessness. Imagine no prejudice or bigotry. Imagine waking up tomorrow and finding that greed has disappeared from the face of the earth. And anger and hatred had become unacceptable traits; not by law, but by universal choice. Imagine that everyone has decided that starting tomorrow, no one would do anything to anyone else that they didn't want to happen to them. Imagine that compassion was more important to people than the material possessions they could collect.

And imagine that when the naysayers stood up and tried to tell us how stupid and naive these ideas are, they were booed off stage, put in their place, and ignored. Imagine this in every country of the world. Just think of the possibilities.......