A dream of peace.

So I stopped worrying so much today.

I think I've figured out some direction in my life, actually, and that's... a pretty good feeling.  I'm not sure if I'm going to succeed.  In fact, I'm... almost positive that I will fail, but I think I've finally figured something out.

Today, I asked myself a question.  I asked:  What would life be like if... instead of having to work --hard -- every day, to make money just to survive and to put myself through school, I could do anything I want.  What if everyone on earth could do just exactly what they wanted, and all basic needs (clothing, shelter, food, and medical care) were all provided by people who wanted to provide them (not out of some greed-based consumerism, but out of a compassionate, care-based concern for others)?  More largely, how would the human race evolve and continue growing after this change?  How would I continue growing and adapting after this change?  What would I do?

Our current knowledge would persist, but the structures that currently drive the entire labor force of the world would dissolve.  I'd throw into this mix that religions and/or individual regimes could not gain military power or involuntary power over people who have not chosen to abide by the rules they impose (also, no "lifelong membership" clauses in those agreements), debates over my definition of a person being put aside right now.

I don't think we'd have cars anymore.  At least not as many as we have now.  We would probably still have public transportation -- buses and plains.  You've gotta have those in our modern-day society.  But cars, not so much.  I'd bet we'd still have computers, but not as many.  Everything would change.  Well, that is to say, everything that's touched by money -- which is to say, again, Everything.

Personally, I would do... nothing.  That is not to say absolutely nothing, but I would probably do nothing.  I would be a bum -- maybe a bard in another life -- but in this life, just a traveler looking for nothing but the company of others, a decent meal or two a day, and contentment in the everyday wonders of simple living.  I'd want to learn about the world -- experience culture and music -- cherish the brief moments I have here on this planet, and then leave it.

I would help people, too.  Doing what I could for whomever needed some help on whatever the most, I imagine I'd make plenty of friends, and I'd always keep in touch with my family -- even when I was far, far away.

Today, I've decided that while I can't live that life now, I want to work toward shaping our world into that world.

And after that thought, I found me.