Its Baby Steps, Because I Am a Child

No matter my age, I will look with wonder at the world and trust that I have someone looking out for me who is bigger and wiser than I am.

The world is full of aggressive tactics that will put you in the spot light and make you famous.

You have a message you think is worth sharing?

Splash it everywhere! Hang up your shingle! Declare yourself an expert and make millions, all while sipping a cold drink with a piece of fruit and an umbrella in it on the beach!

Some of us will tell our tale in quiet moments.

Gingerly, because along with the ability to have a voice comes the other side that can cut you down.

It will say that you have done less than you should have, or that you are pompous and “full of yourself” to think you have answers to questions that humanity has not been able to resolve for millions of years.

The crazy lady they called a witch, the one who everyone goes to see secretly, but would never let on they believe in her.

She sits in a nursing home today.

Surrounded by others, lost in their own thoughts and unable to find a way to be heard.

Before I reach that stage I want to speak.