Beautification of the Clouds

Just another short flash fiction story about wanting to make the world a better place. Enjoy!


She ran into the great big city… buildings everywhere, skies unpolluted, people populated all around, arms and eyes wide open... The excitement cheered as she stood brightly upon the stage in a room filled wall to wall to announce her keynote speech. Wisdom was shared on how to promote change and betterment to the world. “Let’s fight for justice by seeing all people as human and not a color on a paint palette... because we are all beautiful!” The crowd exploded in jubilation and took action. The clouds can relax peacefully now…

Evolution from Sick and Twisted

Long story short, people need to stop seeing the world as something painful and start seeing it as something beautiful. Enjoy!

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Sick and twisted life
Gives us pain like it's the bane of our existence
As we feign our identities to conform to society and get by...
But what if your heart beat is one in a million?

Not only are we thrown tragedy, but we're thrown pain... lots and lots of fiery pain... pain that's enough to cause depression... and depression that represents a succession of sadness that leads to a progression of prowls down the streets that propel you to the path of difference as you repel the evil and start your sessions of success!

Sick and twisted life can morph into a healthy and colorful beauty as depicted through the eyes of an artist...
An artist who's a positivity advocate, Working to place the rainbows into fruition
As we're warriors in this faction,
Fighting fractions
Only to be the main attraction...
Of people's eyesight and brain space...

It seems how people are oh so consumed in their overzealous ways...
Disregarding the feelings of others...
Picking on them,
Battering them into the ground,
Preying upon their beings,
Only to selfishly cause destruction...ruin...and instill unnecessary fear...

WHY??? WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING?

Hello darling sick and twisted life...
Why can't we place a smile upon your childish glow, even though the world isn't entirely comprised of unicorns and smiley faces...
Some depict this as a beautiful storm...others call it a story... while some call it a morbid wasteland...

But in reality, we are all in the same place and living a different story...

Do you want to paint the world with your color palette or do you want to paint it with blood?
Do you want to start a fire to warm a town and get everyone to sing kumbaya, or are you going to be foolish enough to use your being as a detriment?

The elements are ours to manipulate in this sick and twisted land... but why not use them as a superpower?

This vast universe is a blank storybook canvas painted with words and images.
Negativity is as solid as a volcanic rock that can be crushed in the palm of a strong woman's hand...
Let's all turn this sick and twisted into big, brave, and bold... 

Evolve it into a beautiful universe...
Morph it into how we shall perceive the world today...
Which is a beautiful place splattered with color that we should view from a child's eyes... untainted and unharmed!

Now it's your turn to paint your story with some color and beauty to share!

And take action to destroy this sick and twisted view for once and for all!

Remembrance

Remember, remember, this unfortunate day in infamy as I reflect how I think September 11 should be represented and turned my feelings into a short poem. Enjoy!

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Remember…
The once prided towers that stood tall upon us in New York…
The once buzzing state was morphed into a grey, desolate wasteland
As no one forgets where they were that day…

September 11, 2001…
A once normal day morphed infamous and marked dismally by the history books
Recorded how beauty was again struck by terrible tragedies from terror…

With the world being at half-staff like a somber flag
We don’t just remember all the tears that were shed,
Those who have fallen,
And those who made the ultimate sacrifice,
But we thank our beautiful county for everything that we have
While we stand tall in prayer as the grey is continuously repainted!

Remember…
Just because there are several days in the books where the world sheds a tear,
We need to take a moment and say thank you…
Thank you for making the ultimate sacrifice in order to pave the way for our dreams to be brought to life!

Thank you for volunteering your time to better the quality of life while expecting nothing in return!
And thank you for going out of your way to make freedom ring while it should be seen as a luxury to be more grateful for…

Freedom needs to be appreciated and not be taken for granted
Which is why instead of taking this day to only shed a tear of sadness,
We should cry tears that represent the vigor in our soldiers whose blood was shed to keep us united in light of these terrible tragedies.
Because no matter what,
We will never back down,
We will never stay down,
And we will spend this day celebrating that we’re being repainted and constantly mending our wounds instead of being something that was grey for a brief moment in time…

Remember…
This day… where evil fiends have unsuccessfully stripped us of our pride
While we continue to stand and unite higher than our fallen towers…

Move Forward in the Presence of Tragedy

My response to all the recent tragedies is below... despite the pain we've seen on the news lately, we should still notice the beauty in life, move forward, and be as happy and positive as we can! Enjoy!

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Dear beautiful universe,

If you're all aware of this lovely little fact, the purpose of life is to promote beauty, but do you feel like 2014 has lately been suffocated with tears of blood, mass destruction, and suffering... and more than usual of such tragedies?

Tragedy is not and should not be the central circle of the meaning of life. Life is not some depressing black hole that people keep abusing, despite the fact that we need to acknowledge that life isn't all unicorns and rainbows and we need to know that "shit happens"...

From the mass murders in Israel, to headlines of constant gun violence, and even locking young children in the car, for crying out loud, despite all these terrible things happening, that shouldn't be society's main focus! Let's look past all of this awfulness, devise a solution for the problem, and move forward towards a hopefully bright future...

Unless you're actually in mourning, or even if you're terminally ill, there's no reason to sit there and complain how much the world sucks and how much people suck... complaining isn't going to get you farther than the next person who wants to sit there and witness or join your tirades of discussing depressing topics. The world is actually a happier place than you think. Not only that, but if you focus only on the negative, your world will be negative and vice versa... because according to my guru friend (who's a holistic doctor), life happens in two places: first in your head, and then in the outside world's reality!

There's a vast difference between educating yourself with what's going on in the world and wanting to watch the news or enjoying history in school/in general than submerging your life into the black hole that people struggle to get their pretty faces out of... that would be called a loop, and you don't want that, right?

Life is a game, life is worth living, and despite the constant tragedies of 2014, just keep smiling and keep your heart whole!

With lots of smiles, optimism, and positivity,
Rebs McDuxler :)