A Simple Gaze Into The Eyes of the Helpless...

THIS WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED ON MY MYSPACE ACCOUNT BACK IN JANUARY 2008..............

This morning coming home from work, I spent a lot of time driving around to my dismay. On one of my many runs from point a to b I got home with my breakfast as I was starving. As I placed my drink on the top of my car and proceeded to gather my belongings, something caught my attention. At first my brain registered the motion as a fish stuck in shallow water. I looked over at an oil pan that one of my neighbors had left from changing his oil. Flopping around helplessly was a small bird. I reacted quickly and removed it from the oil at the expense of my clothes. It was freakin out!!! Then it jumped right out of my hand and started chirping and trying to get away. I felt kinda bad for it so I ran to my house and got some paper towels and ran back to try and clean the bird off. After a few failed attempts to catch it I finally picked it up. By this point we were both covered in oil and looking at the poor bird that struggled so hard to escape me, I couldn't tell for the life of me what kind of bird it was. I wrapped it up in the paper towels and watched the oil seep through. No matter how many towels I used oil kept coming off of the bird. Adjusting to fresh paper towels it jumped out of my hand and again tried to escape. I jumped up and caught it again, only to soak up twice as much oil as the first time. I couldn't just leave the bird like that. I had to do something but I wasn’t sure what. I got all the oil I could off with the paper towels but it was still blackened by the thick goo. Maybe soap and water I thought. So I started looking for a bucket to put it in so it would stay put. As I walked toward the bucket it started freaking out and chirping uncontrollably. I readjusted my grip but the bird was faster than me and again out of my hands it went and under my neighbor's deck. There was no getting the bird at this point. So what the hell was that all about?

So I push for an act of kindness and the life I try to save refuses my help. A lot of distraught people are just like this bird. It's kinda f'd up that we as humans f*** so many things up like business, relationships, family, the Earth and just life in general. Yet here we are surrounded by a few good people amidst the many selfish, that wouldn't hesitate to help a friend in need without question of a return gesture...just because. Many of us act without thinking about what result our actions will have in their wake. Look at the mess that we have created and realize that we are f****d up and what we are doing is wrong....................