DP #13: Perception in Truth

I would love to say that it is possible I would spare my only loaf of fresh bread to an expecting neighbor or even that I would get up in the middle of the night to welcome, by dutiful obligation, my visitor and that I see my same behavior reflected in the beautiful essence of the 21st Century, but I would be lying a great deal. We are told now that it is wrong, even dangerous, to put ourselves before others and that practicing dominating egalitarianism can prove detrimental to our family's well-being; this is true, yet what we don't see or allow ourselves to see is that it lacks to present 'the whole picture.' Capitalism strikes, as it has quite successfully in this time and place, and down goes the selfless cycle, down goes any possible communalism or hospitality, down goes any chance of an existing population on smiles and what seems right (but it's wrong). It is a hopeless outlook on this world, seeing nothing but a collection of money-orientated beings tracing a maze of personal success, yet it is a truly unrealistic existence to trek the earth with hope that more than one amazing neighbor might spare some bread and thus turn the world around; hopeful honesty in one's perception of what is before them seems to be the message of the parable and respectively the most healthy eyes through which to see the world.