The Grass Beneath my Feet
by One man’s revelation into what has happened to us and our society.
No, it wasn’t just me. I could honestly feel the watchful eyes of onlookers and passers by, of people in their shiny, un-earth like cars peering down their noses at my naked feet. It was the city, what was I doing? Had he lost his mind or was he unemployed? You can’t do that…..I could hear their thoughts. Where does he think he is? What kind of a person does that…..and on and on it went.
In a world of labels and boxes that we must fit into, in a world of make believe in that what I once knew had become something else; something that didn’t fit in with my soul, my feelings or my beliefs.
If I can’t walk with bare feet near my home on my day off then where and when could I?
I walked on triumphant, my confidence grew and my resilience to the all powerful and controlling world of economics, commerce and development filled my every breath. I ran on, leaping onto the gravel. I inhaled the temporary pain and changed again to the smooth white and relatively new concrete wall. It was warm and yet cold. I sat down and dangled my feet into the cold water of the bay as it lapped my legs. I felt free.
Further on the path I came toward a long expanse of grass with trees. I voluntarily moved onto the grass as two ladies walked past me going in the opposite direction. The disbelief in their faces showed as I frolicked on the tightly threaded and manicured green. My smile didn’t wan as I carried on. The ladies looked back after a while and saw my enthusiasm and even managed a smile.
Perhaps they were affected. Perhaps my understanding and clarity was infectious.
The ladies carried on and there lives were touched by truth, not by my truth but by the inevitable feeling that life is about all living things, it is about our relationship with others and by others, I mean trees and rivers and oceans. Ours is not to dictate but to learn, to grow and change. We are but a speck amongst the heavens and although we can effect much we can also be thus effected.
Let us feel the grass beneath our feet and see the world before our eyes.
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