Art is Not Art.......

I saw this on my way home from the MOMA.

Is the grass really greener......

As the year comes to an end I just keep thinking about this American dream. This so called dream that people from all over the world want to achieve. I think this dream is no longer achievable, I think it's just a mind game that have been embedded in the mind of Americans and poor people around the world. Is the grass really greener on the American side? I think not.

After this Christmas all I hear on TV, radio and from the mouths of people I thought had some kind of intelligence, was shopping this, buying that. I kept thinking why do everyone need to get a gift for Christmas? The majority of people getting gifts are adults that have jobs and probabky have everything needed to live, so why the more gifts? this is the first year ever that I felt that I was sinning buying gifts for people. The kind of sin like looking at thirteen year old girls, stuff like that. it just felt so wrong! Buying gifts for people making more money than me, people making enough money to live on and live a pretty good life. Now what else in this world could these people need that could, or would make any impression in their lives?

I received gifts myself, ranging from money, clothes and wine. I accepted these gifts, but I have not incorporated it in my life. All these gifts are still in the boxes and everything, I did have to unwrap them to see what everything is. I think I might leave these gifts under my bed for the meanwhile, until I try and contemplate what to do with these gifts. Knowing me I'll probably keep everything, but right now I feel strange using them.

Back to the grass, in our society in America we all search for the greener grass not realizing the greenest grass is the one we're standing on right now. In New York, the search for ten bedroom house for $300,000 have driven people to the south, namely Florida and Atlanta. I will never move to Atlanta or Florida, I know to give up the kinds of neighborhoods in NY for the down south living is out of the question. People want to buy and buy houses in other states without even a job, or a through understanding of the geographic relationships from home and work in these new states, but they all think that Atlanta and Florida grass is greener than NYC. I say good luck to them, you leave NY now and in ten years your earning to come back. After all the Indian people and the Jewish people claim all these property for profit. I remember seeing a basement apartment for rent in a area now occupied by people of Indian origin, and it said Indian couple or person preferred. That shocked me then, now it seems that people want to be with their own people. So let them!

I feel as you search for the greener grass, you will always be searching. I have realized that the grass that we are all searching for is the grass were standing on right now!

Remember God loves!