No Going Back

Every day holds the potential

to do better than the last

—what’s passed is past.

We do not control all events,

only how we react to them.

Open minds know that greater knowledge

brings better understanding.

Once we understand the effect of painful imagery on others

are we so selfish that we are unwilling correct it?

If we live our lives in a shell and come to believe that 

our world IS the shell, then learn that there 

is a broad expanse of world beyond that shell

how do we pretend that it just doesn’t exist?

Just like we know that the earth is not flat,

  …it’s as simple as that.

Keep an open heart and mind.
Be kind.

© Ginny Brannan 2020

If we are not growing, we are dying. And if we lose our empathy to put ourselves in another's place, then we are nothing. There is no putting the toothpaste back into the tube. To do so would only confirm our ignorance.