Most are afraid to be their real selves. This is a worldwide tragedy. An untold number of all people on Earth suffer this unconscious condition. Why is this likely true? Because many people were never loved enough, if at all, in their earliest of years. This sorrowful situation on Earth is abetted by the unconscionable fact that several billion of them live often in extreme poverty, which means so often that those of means have no compassion for their fellow human beings and care only about getting rich, then getting even richer. This immoral consquence of inhumanity is that several billion who have little--perhaps nothing--to eat, only shacks to live in, few schools to attend, virtually no medical care, among the absence of many other critical needs, are overwhelmed by these obscene deprivations, and therefore will unconsciously have at their center only the abyss of never having been loved. The result, therefore, is that they will never experience their true, sacred, inviolable worth, which they share with all others. That is why most are afraid to be their real selves.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia Univveraity, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
