Do people think about living or what it means to be alive ~
or do they just exist? Exist without questioning why?
Why do we believe? Believe in anything?
Or is believe even the word to use? Has it lost meaning?
Become pejorative?
So how ~ which word ~ is it:
To follow, engage, subscribe, acquiesce, qualify, quantify,
pledge allegiance, affirm, believe, take a side, give a reason, make a
statement, to say “I am this or that…” ~ whatever word is used to manifest
what it is one identifies with is meaningless and inconsequential without asking
and answering ~ why? Blindness ~ blind suspension of the question why depletes life
of beauty and replaces it with monotony. The questions at least need to be
asked even if no adequate answers may come. The journey is one of questions…
How is what the vast majority of humanity apparently chooses
to do each day – live, survive, exist…explained?
As Bruce Springsteen asks, “Tell us what does it mean ~ at
the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe…”
(Bruce Springsteen ~ Reason To Believe)
"Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in
a ditch
He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick
Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on highway 31
Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run
Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me
Still at the end of every hard day people find some reason
to believe
Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true
She said baby I'll work for you everyday and bring my money
home to you
One day he up and left her and ever since that
She waits down at the end of that dirt road for young Johnny
to come back
Struck me kinda funny funny yea indeed how at the end of
every hard earned day you can find some reason to believe
Take a baby to the river Kyle William they called him
Wash the baby in the water take away little Kyle's sin
In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away take the
body to the graveyard and over him they pray Lord won't you tell us,
Tell us what does it mean
At the end of every hard earned day people find some reason
to believe
Congregation gathers down by the riverside
Preacher stands with his bible, groom stands waitin' for his
bride
Congregation gone and the sun sets behind a weepin' willow
tree
Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so
effortlessly
Wonderin' where can his baby be still at the end of every
hard earned day people find some reason to believe"
~ Bruce Springsteen
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