WHY HAD WE LET THEM AND OURSELVES DOWN?

DIFFERENT FROM THE "THEM" 'S DESCRIBED IN THE PRIOR UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE BLOG. I WATCHED THEIR FACES, THE THREE PEOPLE WHO SAT ACROSS FROM ME, TWO WOMEN SHARING THE TWO SEATER SEAT, THE WOMAN ON THE LEFT FACING ME MAY HAVE BEEN A NURSES AID, DEFINETLY A CARE GIVER, AND THE OTHER WOMAN, WAS A DIFFERENT NATIONALITY FROM THE WOMAN ON HER RIGHT, EACH SEEMED TO BE IN THEIR OWN SPACE, AS WAS THE MAN, WEARING WORK CLOTHES, SPORTING A CREW CUT, AND A STRONG SQUARE JAW, EACH COUNTENANCE TELLING A STORY, BOTH DIFFERENT, AND YET THE SAME. A STORY THAT BEGAN WITH BELIEVING THAT I CAN BE AND DO ANYTHING...AND THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY MUCH FORWARD PUSHING MOTION...EXPERIENCING LIFE'S SET BACKS THAT SEEMED TO BE DELIBERATELY PLACED TO CHALLANGE THEIR SEPARATE BELIEFS...IN THEMSELVES FIRST OFF, AND FINALLY IN JUST ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE... THE EVIDENCE WAS EVERYWHERE...ON TV, THE NEWSPAPERS TELLING THE SAME STORY IT SEEMED THOUGH IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES...AND AS MUCH AS THEY TRIED NOT TO BELIEVE WHAT THEIR EYES, AND EARS WERE TELLING THEM...THEY FELT THEMSELVES BEING PULLED UNDER...AS MUCH AS THEY RESISTED...THE UNDERCURRENT WAS VERY STRONG AND POWERFUL. THIS WAS MY INTERPRETATION, THE CAREGIVER, HER HUE REMINDED ME OF ALMONDS AND HER HAIR WAS DARK SHINY AND STRAIGH, PULLED BACK HELD BY A COMB, SHE HAD HER EYES CLOSED. I SAW HER REACH FOR HER CELL PHONE ONCE, AND SHE SPOKE QUICKLY AND QUIETLY IN ENGLISH MIXED WITH HER NATIVE TONGUE, SPANISH I THINK, ENDING THE CALL, CLOSING HER EYES AGAIN, AND KEEPING THEM CLOSED AS SHE SETTLED BACK AGAINST THE SEAT PREPARING HERSELF FOR THE BUMPBY RIDE DUE TO THE UNATTENDED STREETS THAT COST CAR OWNERS MUCHO DENIRO. WHILE THE WOMAN NEXT TO HER, SKIN THE COLOR OF LEMON SKIN, HER HAIR DARK AND CURLY, AND HER EYES WERE DARK AND HER EXPRESSION PAINFUL AS SHE COVERED HER FACE WITH HER HAND AS IF NEEDING TO BOTH PRAY AND HIDE AT THE SAME TIME...AND THE MAN WAS SITTING HIGHER, ON THE ROW OF BUS SEATS THAT PUT HIM IN A SEEMINGLY EXAULTED POSITION... ALL WERE EXPRESSIVE WITHOUT BEING ANIMATED, MAKING THEM APPEAR TOO REAL TO BEAR AT TIMES. YET I COULD FEEL WHAT THEY WERE SAYING...PARTICULARLY THE MAN, WHO RESISTED TEARS, AND QUICKLY RECOVERED, SWALLOWING WITH LITTLE DIFFICULTY, CHOOSING TO LOOK DOWN AT HIS HANDS, BECAUSE I HAD SILENTLY SPOKE TO THEM, THE TWO WOMEN AND THE MAN, ASKING THEM TO THINK BACK TO WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG WHEN THEY KNEW WHAT THEY HAD WANTED TO BE WHEN THEY GREW UP...AND WHEN THEY HAD BELIEVED WITH THEIR VERY HEARTS AND SOULS THAT ANYTHING WAS POSSIBLE FOR THEM. BEFORE THE CONTROLLERS HAD TAKEN OVER...AS THEY ALWAYS HAD WITH PEOPLE WHO HAD TRUE STORIES TO TELL...PEOPLE WHO MADE THINGS...AND CREATED NATURAL BEAUTY WITH EASE AND EFFICIENCY...THOSE THAT INTERPRETED LIFE FOR THE REST OF US SO WE MAY UNDERSTAND OURSELVES AND OTHERS, FOR THEY KNEW THE IMPORTANCE OF SHARING...THE GIFT THAT THE CREATOR HAD BESTOWED UPON THEM, AS WITH EVERYONE, ALMOST EVERYONE...YET, WITH UNIQUENESS AS WITH THEIR FACES THAT TOLD THEIR STORY, BOTH DIFFERENT, AND YET THE SAME...AS WITH MOST OF US. TO MAKE THE WORLD GOOD AGAIN AND HOPEFUL...TURNING THE TABLES ON THE TAKERS...WHEN FINALLY THE LAST, WILL NOW BE FIRST, WHERE PEACE, PROSPERITY, AND LOVE, NOT NECESSARILY ROMANTIC LOVE, YET A BROTHERLY-SISTERLY LOVE THAT APPRECIATES THE BEAUTY OF DIFFERENCES AND SAMENESS WITHIN ALL OF US. (C)COPYRIGHTED BY GWEN MITCHELL ON THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2016 AT 5:17PM AT THE WEST HOLLYWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY, WEST HOLLYWOD, CA 90O69.