I HAVE OBSERVED a recurring theme within the past fortnight.  Many a forlorn messenger has sought me to deliver a forecast of doom and gloom.  Typically, I would fain open the door for such a dubious personage, hell-bent on hell and afeared of fear.  However, in compliance to my visceral inclinations I interpreted these repeated occurrences as synchronistic events, not as omens per se’, but as suggestions of some sub-conscious pattern within my-self which is beckoning-to that of its likeness.  In seeking, I did find that trembling child in the corner of my mind who had naively considered this argument of the patriarchy that all is for naught and that there is no hope for posterity.  Once I was able to locate this lad, it was easy to convince him of the Truth, that all of life is on an evolutionary path – an upward spiral.  He was then free to continue on his High course. 

The Oldster is prone to a particular mis-calculation.  This world does not appear so benign to him as the world of his youth, imagining that it was the only possible reality which could have facilitated his plight.  Yea, this is erroneous even if I never did expose him as a romantic, painting a gloss veneer over the sordid aspects of his past.  Alas, we live in a better world than has ever existed!  I wonder if our venerable friend has ever considered that the ‘news’ is full of pitfalls and disasters because these things are rare?  Are there not a million acts of kindness for every malicious act?  Has he not noticed that slavery, domestic abuse, and other organized inhumane acts have all but ceased in our country in the past century.  It is true that there has also been a collapse of social decorum, but would he ignore the fact that it was driven by an oppression which has like-wise passed away.  Moreover, the author has cause to believe that the passive aggressive ‘moral code’ as defined by the hierarchy is gradually yielding to a more enlightened and civilized ‘personal decorum’ (evolving from political correctness) where free from certain social pressures, the individual is wont to consult his own set of guiding principles.  Ergo, there as never been true Liberty hitherto! 

Yea, the Old Man has nothing to fear in the way of posterity.  As is the life-aspiring process of evolution, each succeeding generation is ingrained with the wisdom to not only exist, but to thrive in the soil-bed from which it sprouted.  It is a grand time to be alive!

Forsooth!
Mr. Hazelwood