The Canvas World

All the world is an incomplete canvas. We all contribute, in large or small ways, to this work by how we are as collective humanity.

This canvas can never be completed because humanity, the only contributor to this work, continually evolves. It is a continuing work-in- progress. If this canvas ever gets completed the world as we know it will cease to exist because by then it is "finished."

Somewhere in the infinite universe, some other beings may see what we are working on. They may give us credit for our great accomplishments. But, they will certainly condemn us for the ongoing stupidity that we perpetrate on mother earth's once pristine backyard.

And, they will surely laugh at the shit that we throw at each other everyday as we work on the canvas. One can only imagine the filth that we smear the canvas with even as we work!

By our mindless acts of destruction upon mother earth's resources and the evil that we cause each other we are creating an ugly canvas. Surely, it is not the masterpiece that the Giver wanted us to come up with.

We can not fully appreciate the panorama because we are all part of it; we are in it. Like the fish not being able to see the water it is swimming in.

But, if by some stroke of wonderful fortune you get a furlough from your never ending "work" and take a step back to look at it, what will you see? Now, that you are focused on your own "contribution" - do you like what you see? What have you contributed?

Every human act is reflected on this canvas; big or small; good or evil; constructive or destructive; monumental or mundane; truly great or ho-hum. Everything is etched on it.

It is somehow frightening to think that as we project our thoughts into our actions we are creating a world almost unconsciously. And, it may not even be the world we really want to live in; the world we truly want to have.