Love In The Airport

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The airport is different.

People show emotion here.

Mothers openly embrace their comoflauged Sons as the leave to serve our country.

The entire gathering of strangers cried along with them.

A few gates further and a father was reunited with his Daughter and the rest of the world stopped.

Emotion comes back to life here.

Emotion that is reluctant to make an appearance outside the baggage claim and the security check line.

Emotional interactions somehow feel risky.

Our society is uncomfortable, nervous and scared to show emotion or connect.

Even when we are around love.

This urge to turn away isolates us, makes us more machine-like, and makes us fearful emotion.

The irony is tragic.

Society is not an outsider.
Society is not them.

It's us.
It's me.
It's you.

Every time we make a judgment, we perpetuate the disconnection.

With every assumption, we play both judge and jury.

Every decision impacting the story of what is acceptable or not.

Every claim to know how someone should think and feel; a sentencing.

We are the villain and the victim.

Validated when pinpoint a villain.

Forgetful about taking care of the victim.

We want vigilantes to make us feel more validated.

We want credit for agreeing with their cause.

Yet we are not willing to personally fight for the causes we claim we care about.

The secret to a society freeing itself from this homemade prison is to embrace vulnerability.

To understand the difference between fear and being in real danger we have to embrace our humanity.

Violence and judgment have been the tools of people who are unwilling to communicate for centuries.

There is a better way to solve problems.

We don't want to hate each other.

We want to help each other.

Human beings are like that.

Abandoning the prisoners dilemma is a great place to start.

Have we not served enough years afraid of each other's shadow? 

How long have you been afraid to connect?

Showing emotion may feel risky.

Not showing emotion has proven to be far more dangerous.

It is not up to someone else.

It is all of our turn to leap.


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