Secret Silencer - Neutrality

For some odd reason, as I get older, I become even more aware of the two extremes to a situation. A couple of days ago, I felt like I could go from one extreme to the other in 2.945 seconds. One second I wanted to go postal, just use my mouth as an assault weapon. Then, the next second I just wanted to be home under my spring clean linen musing in the dark about how life would be better by myself.

No, I am not bi-polar, contrary to popular belief. But, there are situations that arise that will show one the duality of one's personality. Good vs. evil, kind vs. harsh, even-tempered vs. ill-tempered, and so forth. We talk about being neutral, but looking at the scenarios I just presented, we seem to choose one or the other. There is no in between.

So, please...help me understand how we can be so neutral in this world, where some seem to choose one versus the other and not the in between? Well, there are some cases were you can be neutral, but daggonit...now that I am growing more mature...the more I see that I have to pick a side because neutrality is starting to become slothfulness to me. Like a slow dance to a prom song everyone heard way too many times, it becomes agonizing! Or neutrality means I just don't give a crap, it really isn't that important to me. And there are times, like when Toys R' Us sent me a survey or Rite Aid asked me about my shopping experience...I mean...some of those questions, yeah I filled in neutral. But, that can carry over to important issues. I am not going to front, at times, I am neutral concerning things because I don't care or I am too lazy to fully comprehend the situation or the content presented to me. Like the election...I really don't care about it. I am not neutral about it, I wouldn't vote for Hillary or Obama. Truth be told, Hillary or Obama could not and WILL NOT affect our neighborhoods or communities like WE CAN. Look at MLK Jr., he work in, with, and through the community and then, got to the White House. Uh, oh...probably started something with that statement, but I am "neutral" on what people think;)

Anyway, anyway...how in the world does this tie into Every 7 years...as each phase of life transpires, I realize my inadequacies more and more. It can be startling or enlightening. I realize the complexities of life and that not every question can be given just a yes or no answer. Sometimes, we have to "work" to get that answer. Sometimes, neutrality can be an easy way out of thinking or choosing a particular side. There's a lot of people walking around here with neutral opinions about important issues and that can play a part of why we are so slow to change the things that are happening around us. Garbage around the apartment complex, oh..I am neutral on that, who cares I'm not throwing the garbage on the lawn and who ever is doing it is not going to change anyway. Neutrality can also be a punk way to avoid conflict. I don't think anything built to last has not experienced conflict. Some of the greatest struggles we have had birth a new era. Be it Independence from England, the Women's Suffrage movement, or the Civil Rights movement or to bring it a little closer to home and personalize it, the War on Drugs in the 80's...struggle or conflict was a pre-requisite to birth. I digress...if we were neutral on these topics where would we be today? If we stopped being neutral about the present state of the world, where could we go...what can we aspire to be?