Easy

Reflective expressionism is easy. You just say what is on your mind; spontaneous connections from your insides up to your brain. It is is reactionary; it has to be since the universe around us creates the environment that we are in now, in relation to how our individuality reacts to it. It is easy to be an individual that expresses the qualities of life that makes each of us tick. It is easy on television when the producers cut and paste what they want to show so that they can make a person look like their desired purpose within the show. You should be an individual like this person. Be this way. Be that way. It is still coercive, and has become the mantra for a society that has taken individualism into the realm of expressive thought that must win arguments

Reflective expressionism is a construct of being who you are by your definition, when many are leaving you as a result. Money is leaving you, and people stop loving you when you do not have money in this culture. Ironically, they say that you left. You try to connect. You try to come over. You try to leave a message. They leave messages of condescension that they use to argue their attempts to engage. The tone says it all. Reversal never happens, and you realize they just want you the way they want you to be for them. They never loved you, but rather they wanted you to provide them with what they got out of you. I do not think I am alone in this thought; our culture promotes love following the money.

People don't love money. That would be a sin. People try to create relationships with other people that have money. Children know who has an inheritance available, and grow into adults creating relationships with people that can create a life of luxurious surroundings, or simply the life of walking and thinking at a snails pace. Oh, sure, life gets hard for people that have resources. It is difficult to know where to put that money, and difficult to pay people $100 or $5000, for fixing your computer, designing your kitchen, mowing your lawn, or painting your properties. Life is really difficult, I know, when the kids just won't listen to reason when they choose to major in that instead of this more socially desirable choice. People worked hard for their money, and I will never make them feel bad for it. Nobody should feel bad for having more resources than someone else.

The essence of today, however, is that the idea of "work" has become a negative in our culture. Don't believe me. Walk into a club today, or a park today, and listen to conversations. Conversations about the desirability of working. Desirability of people enjoying what they do on a daily basis. Desirability of people who "don't have to work". Work today has become the business of manipulation and political advancement within the organization of choice. Relationship-building has become the culture, and by nature, relationship-building has become the building of relationships for the concept of earning as much money as possible. This is work in the United States in 2008.

Some may say this is cynical. There is no reason to be cynical when you are on the inside of the circle. However, the resources within the circle are getting a little more scarce, and it is getting nasty inside the circle. People are showing their person. The who comes out to be seen by many. The essence of work, and those that love for the sake of love, and not relationship-building, may become the people who adapt to culture that is in need of energy. In the last several years, laziness in physicality and mentality has grown that has created a great cultural divide between people on auto-pilot, and those who think quickly. An energy exists in people who do not read static books, but rather, evolving stories. People who can foresee results by thinking quickly about what is transpiring in front of them will adapt, while others will believe history repeats itself in all cases. History does repeat itself. Most people will wait for the glory days to return, while a few people will see that their is a major change in what people want and need in our culture today.

People, today, need a sense that someone really cares about them. Can you buy that? I have had a lot of people "love" me, but I can honestly say that reflective expressionism has led me down a path where one other person and I are the only people who care about me. Finding out who really cares about me, I believe, is the essence of what our culture needs as individuals going forward. Everybody loves everybody, today. But, does anyone care about you when you don't have the ability or soul within to provide them everything they are seeking all the time. It is a give and take. The people or person who cares about you takes the time to know the who, even when you may not know yourself.

When, and if you, are a person who seeks to know oneself, then the person who cares will facilitate your path, not stand in the path of status quo. If you are a person who has had to hide yourself because it was not condusive for career or power gain, then the person who truly cares will accept the consequences of your desire to stop hiding. In fact, the person who truly cares would say, "what took you so long". Finding people that care has to evolve, and probably will never come from where you may think. It is a human quest to find people that care about you, but reflective expressionism will provide you the isolation of those people who wanted you around, but always had to win the argument of the "who of you" being wrong. Life's quest was to find why things never seemed quite right in some environments.

Reflective expressionism makes it very clear that I do not like arguments because the arguments were always won by people who had to have their way. I know some will say that I am arguing by writing expressions of feeling leading into thought. This is not argumentative intention. It is my expression of who. The only right is because I'm writing it. This is not a prototype of self-help. This is a prototype of living who I am, while not accepting the directives of others about who I should be in their attempt to control their environment around them. If I make people curious, it is usually from people who live on the line of comparability in relationship to them. They truly cannot believe I don't care about "what they do for a living" or "what house I live in". I truly don't care about "getting ahead" or "how nice a piece of property I own". I truly can enjoy a snippet of a beautiful view of nature in Gary, Indiana, as well as in Monterey, California. Do I need to own that view? Do I need to take a picture of that view? It is etched in memory.

People are afraid of what lies ahead. I am often. As I write this today, I am not. At one point in the past I would say, "from here, I could only go up". As of today, I don't care if I go up, down, sideways, or anyways. It is just another societal measurement of progress to drop now.

(c) kenneth martin