12.21.07
A month already?
Wow – another month gone… The year is almost over. What is the most memorable part of the past year? Is there one? We all come up with New Year’s Resolutions every year – well many of us do, but how many people look back at the past year and look at all you have accomplished – or in some cases, did not accomplish?
This year – 2007 – has been filled with so much all over the world – I can’t even begin to think about what has happened in my life. The wars and famine and death and sorrow – over every continent and every country.
I grew up a “trekker” – hooked on Gene Roddenberry’s Utopia that was and still is “Star Trek” and to this day I still believe that some day it will be possible. It will be possible to not hate because someone is different. To not kill in the name of one God or another. To simply live and let live.
To this day, I still watch DVDs of Star Trek TNG and Voyager and yes, DS9. I still believe and hope. As I get older, I do not lose hope. When I look back at 2007 I have doubts, but I don’t lose hope. When I see war mongers such as Bush and Cheney leading this country down the wrong path – I don’t lose hope. When I am told I am bad because I am lesbian – that I will “burn in hell” or some other “christian” belief, I don’t lose hope. I know I was born this way and that someday, someone, somewhere will prove it. I don’t lose hope in the Utpoia that is a vision of a wonderful man. Gene Roddenberry saw what we all wanted to believe in as we grew up – when there was no hate – when the other children we played with had no color – at least not that mattered to us.
A few years ago Paramount said “no more Trek…” and a TV show and a movie franschise may have ended but a vision can never die. The vision that we can all – some day – as Rodney King once said, “just get along” will never die. I lived in LA when he said it. I lived there when the riots occurred. I had to stop and wonder – but then when I thought of the simplicity of what he said – if you stop and think about it – doesn’t it make sense? And it is so simple.
Can’t we all just get along?
I know, as I look forward to 2008, my resolutions will be simple – I will think of Gene and Rodney and pray that somehow, in all the death, wars, genocides, homophobia and more – that we look down deep within our souls and realize – it is simple – as simple as just “live and let live.”
Peace, love and light…
Kat