With Halloween right around the corner, many of us will have no need to shop for a costume. In fact we’re already wearing them, trick or treating through life as cowards and zombies. Bearing the façade of life. Truth be told, most of us merely exist to survive. We drift through this journey lacking a fierce intent to create life on every end.
Whatever happened to living life with creativity and boldness? Did that ever exist? When did we start doing things like staying true to dead relationships and unfulfilling career paths ‘just because’? When did it become acceptable to not turn the tides of our lives when we start drifting towards barren lands and dry desserts?
We’ve hidden behind our comfort zones for far too long. It’s time to face the unknown. To adventure through life and discover new paths and unchartered territory. Let’s take control of our fate. Somewhere along the road we stopped dreaming, stopped imagining, and stopped creating. Let’s take off these costumes. We’ve been cowards and zombies too many damn years in a row.
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On the flip-side, perhaps the impending holiday and it's various connotations could be viewed as an enlightening of sorts...allowing, if only for one night, a brief respite from a society that preaches conformity and shuns individuality. One that teaches black men to camouflage our innermost feelings and desires and instills subservience in our women.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this use of ghoulish masks, costumed heroes and princess fairy tales can be perceived as an outright act of defiance. A sort-of 'call to arms for the downtrodden and oppressed'...strength to the weakened and hope for the hopeless, via a masked celebration for black men and women (as originally performed by our ancestors) to no longer deny what comes naturally to us...our centermost thoughts, feelings and morays, deemed "bestial" and "fiendish" by society, can finally be permitted to come to light (or dark) ...empowering black folks to be 'not only what they want us to be', but who we aspire, strive, wish and dream to be...all so cleverly cloaked and performed directly in front of the devil's eyes...if only for one night!
AN INCREDIBLY ARTISTIC & THOUGHT PROVOKING PIECE OF WRITING, FROM A SUPREMELY GIFTED AND UNMISTAKABLY BEAUTIFUL MIND S. GLORY! YEE OF MANY TALENTS...KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
- Tim W.