World grown cold

With the change of the seasons, there is a world grown colder. What is loved gives way to that which is desired. We are in danger of losing ourselves.

The thing that is wanted is put before what is needed. Everything else is doomed to fall by the wayside. What we hoped to gain leaves us at a loss.

Our choices determine what we become. We cannot let a few bad decisions define us. If we do not clean up our act, we deserve an existence in filth.

None of this has been set in stone. Let us carve out a future that we can live with. Or else we will merely become the pawns in someone else's game.

If we stop caring, a living world is dead and gone. Nothing will matter when all is for naught. Only a fool would put their life in someone else's hands.

A chill is in the air, but let it not find a way inside. Without the warmth, life is cold comfort. There is no fear of perishing when one is already dead within.

Waging war

To fight evil, you must be willing to wage war. It means fighting with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. They will not hold back, so neither should you.

Learn everything you can about your opponent. Understand what it is they are bringing to the table. And then be ready to turn it around and against them.

The one that sacrifices has already lost. If you cannot prove to be better, then your victory is hollow. It will only mean something to those without meaning.

In a spiritual contest, it all comes down to spirit. Yours will be tested like never before. Resist the desire to lash out, for the wicked love collateral damage.

Failure brings the most dire of consequences. When evil plays, it plays for keeps. What it takes is seldom retrievable, and often the victim of vandalism.

Trounce the darkness, and the world becomes brighter. To be beaten, carries serious ramifications. And the shock waves of defeat will continually sting.

Without knowing

When it comes to knowledge, without having all you do not have any. Once, people proudly proclaimed the world was flat. And they were wrong.

Lack of knowledge is not shameful. Willful ignorance most definitely is. Refusing to acknowledge the obvious denotes a deep-seated fear of the truth.

One's perspective does not change reality. No matter how many people share it, that does not affect what is. We should be wary of the so-called experts.

How often does this narrative change? Those who were dogmatic become the masters of retraction. The foundation they laid is so swiftly exhumed.

We live in extraordinary times, but what we ken has been learned through error. Do not make the mistake of hubris. Admit what you do not know.

The most basic of questions we cannot answer. Such mysteries are yet to be revealed. Fret not, there are few things better than the joy of discovery.

Cynically hopeful

Life is best when we hope for better, but prepare for worse. Optimism withers in the face of reality. Yet, pessimism is just another way of giving up.

Most people only care about themselves. They will do anything to get what they want. And if you do not give it to them, they will turn against you.

But there are those who look out for others. When someone is in need,  they are there to lend a hand. The world survives because of people like this.

The hardest truth of all, is that both extremes reside within the individual. To sacrifice the good, is evil. It is the evidence of one's own selfishness.

We must recognize that people care, and that they do not. Just because it hurts, does not mean we should not look. Honesty is always the hard way.

Lies do not a refuge make. See things as they are, and do not turn away. For in the midst of this wicked world, there is still a great deal of good.