Are you sitting comfortably? 

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It's time to get uncomfortable with the way we live today. It's time to recognise we aren't living in the right way.

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Many a fairytale starts with the question: "Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin."
 It's been conditioned into us since we were little to have a standard label on the tin. 

While we sat comfortably tales as old as time branched out across generations. A woman needs a man to save her, therefore making the man superior and the woman submissive. These are the lies and stories that took root within us. 

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We get told of the KKK as part of history. A moment in time confined to the history books. But what started in the late 1860s has crossed generations with its rotten roots. That was then, times have changed, this doesn't happen in our day. But it does, it's the same story told in a different way.  The purification of America and white supremacy lives on. You only need to look at Trump and his followers to see it's the same song. 

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It's not right that people are meant to feel a certain way because they don't fit the cookie cutter mold. Who decided that this is the mold that should be sold? How did this narrative weave itself into our life and times? Why are some held down so others can shine? 

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Sitting comfortably has got us into the state we are in today. A beautiful world being depleted of its resources so that ugly greed can build its way. They say money doesn't grow on trees. Ironic really when we see mass deforestation in favour of the concrete generation. 

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Do we really sit and think why wars start? It starts from ego and control over culture, land and oil. We blindly fight for the ego centre, no matter how many lives we lose and spoil. 

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Many willingly tied themselves to the strings of the Brexit  puppeteers. Yes save our NHS, we believe you they cheered. Oh well it is what it is. No! It is never what it is, it's always so much more. Why has no accountability landed at anyone's door?  The status quo of politics needs to go. It's time for a more progressive generation to run the show. 

 

There is no change in sitting comfortably. Sssh don't make a scene, sit and smile like a pageant queen. But where is the beauty in that? That's not reality that's a dream, or more a nightmare that makes you want to scream. 

 

There is more good than bad in this world, although it doesn't feel like it at times. It's just that the bad gets more of a platform and spotlight to shine.

 

We all have a voice, maybe we should use it more. It's amazing how what starts as a whisper can turn into a roar.

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Hold people accountable, call out behaviour that is wrong. Lead by example and sing a new song. Show our children what is right, teach them to shine with all their might. 

 

It's time to write a new script for all to see, to hold the pen to a new legacy. We have to leave this world better than we found it. Build a better outcome for our children, bit by bit.

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Text copyright ©2021 Dee Kennedy. All rights reserved.

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