Working backwards

Adventure Friendship Speculative

Written in response to: "Center your story around someone who finally achieves their biggest goal — only to realize it cost them everything." as part of The Lie They Believe with Abbie Emmons.

Looking through the eyes of love.

For those who exist in the periphery as well as those who have ‘been there all along.’

The ‘thing’ of life’s twists and turns is nothing in life is ever a slam dunk of finality.

Probably because tomorrow is another day.

And.

Depending upon who you ‘follow’ tomorrow is another good day.

’Cept.

It doesn’t mean the same for every individual.

Recollections vary.

People are right.

People are wrong.

People are up.

People are down.

People are tall.

People are short.

Humans have a choice.

He has already made His choice. He already sacrificed and proved His choice.

It is, or can be amusing the way humans bob and weave and dodge and duck around their choices expecting Him to

‘take care of it.”

He will.

He does.

However, seldom in the familiar way we operate.

Sorry.

He operates on another otherworldly plane that few of us if any can fake.

Fake.

Better to stand up for something now than have yourself “pants” by a ‘pike’ who couldn’t care less.

So where this or that leaves us is anybody’s guess.

The amusement comes in the show. Show of strength, show of dexterity, show of this hood or that hood.

We dance. We dance some more. We dance even more. All to get to a place we are or never sure we want or wanted to be.

Yep.

It’s a dance alright.

Two left feet or not, at times it it daunting. And fun at the same time.

Prohibition took on a whole new meaning after denying persons the right to,

Drink.

Civil rights became divided between the haves and the have nots and forgot the ones who fought for those rights.

Of the haves and have nots.

Ugh. Life evolved into complicated manners and mannerism of ‘who blinked first.’

And even that became woven into believes that some persons deserved more over other.

Hey. I do not make the rules. Try to follow them, even if and when the periphery tries to silence the very being and beings I choose to protect.

Civil. Civility is a ‘thing.” Not a ‘thing’ to be dealt with with questionable intentions, but a right to be preserved with the care and gentleness of a

grape.

O.k.

A fruit, if you I choose.

If not cared for carefully, can get squashed and squished like a bug.

The point is from beginning to end, we have only one life, and in chosen cases, more than one life. The name of the game is….

Protection.

Before.

During.

After.

Why?

Because humans have many and immeasurable ways to screw it up. Worst off,

They sometimes employ those ways annd attempt to do it. Leaving their brothers and sister gobsmacked as to what just happened.

Hey. I don’t make the rules.

Just try to follow them.

When the rules become muddied, it gets dang confusing.

When the goal post keeps getting moved,

It gets dang confusing.

It one chooses to follow the rules. His rules of written and offered wisdom, life becomes maybe lighter, but may be not less confusing.

He knows.

The beggar from the fraudster and the investor and the liar.

Certain soils for growth.

More solid soils to keep watch.

The weed knows when it is being duped and will reject a green plant and welcome a fellow green weed in the same breath of mutual acceptance.

Otherwise, keep on fighting for your life.

Followers are patient.

Followers are kind.

We fight the good fight.

Not yours.

Unless, and of course, you lay down the groupthink meanspeak and ask us in a vulnerable way to help you from yourself.

Using religion is not a back door, back street way to get what you think you want.

Why not just go home?

Perhaps it is fear that keeps you from going there. We are willing to help you with fear, too.

Not to believe your speak against the very land that is willing to help you.

If you ask.

However, if you manipulate, and there are many, many ways we know this can occur. True believers of Him implore you to,

Twink twice before you speak.

Words uttered becomes words muttered.

Just saying’

As the power may wreak ugly places in your stupefied mind.

Stop it.

Your country will not become our country no matter the rhetoric spewed of the haves and have nots.

The country you wish to change only needs tweaking from the generosity of its open arms and belief of founding by its constitutional founders.

In no way does it need nor want the violence of words and actioned spewed by arrogance.

We are kind here.

We are gentle here.

We welcome those who choose to walk their life’s way our way.

With freedom and justice for all.

Either like it or lump it.

Stay if you choose to follow our ways, our rules, our freedom and our prosperity. We are not you and never intend to be you. We welcome allies with differences of opinions and respect for their ways. Never trying to change their historical foundation or criticizing their interions. We know, that is not our place.

Doesn’t mean we don’t like to be friends.

Friendship is a gift, must be nurtured and not tortured by the playground bullies of words and actions.

We push back not because we hate.

But.

Because we love.

Our neighbor as ourself.

We have no time for you. violence. Mean ways.

Talk all you may about the equality you seek in your quest to go back to your homeland, we will even question your intentions along the way, because while you stay here, we intend peace, prosperity and freedom.

We appreciate honest competition and oneupmanship in the interest of that competition while open wounds and gaping ways to move and get in are not good.

Even a virus proved no match for our strength.

Perhaps a lesson in our Constitutional ways will help you, save you from yourself.

We offer the reading.

Please just read it it.

If you would like to prosper and stay within our borders of love, truth and prosperity for all.

Posted Mar 25, 2026
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