Pirates

Within each and everyone of us there lies an indelible light; stubborn in its proliferation and un-interpretable to all. As part of its enigma it can only ever be seen as a reflection within another's eyes, its light has guided and unguided the reverent and the irreverent alike and has made the world that which we find it to be today. It is our most powerful tool and our most cunning enemy. Without it you need fear nothing, for even time will pass you by. With it you will be placed in harms way at every turn but in return, time will fall at your feet and carry you into eternity. I'm told the world is getting smaller, everywhere I hear the word 'globalization'. That word means nothing to me. The world has not got any smaller, there is just less in it but less of what?

We have always been a species of desires, conflicting interests and politics. We have always waged wars and have been seeking nothing more than globalisation from well before the idea of a globe ensued. The only difference is that globalisation was a desire of individual conquest; unattainable in its magnitude and unsurpassable as a parameter for all. Today we are left to consider desire to mean nothing more than the animalistic whim of appetite. We follow in the wake of the collapse of our eternal desires upon a dinghy of self importance and sub-mortality, the only breeze to propel us from our doldrums comes from our last request; the request to be well fed and groomed corpses.

When you are next queuing at the supermarket think on this, when you are chasing your treasure on eBay, when you give up the girl, when you apologise without conviction, when you feel wronged, when you realise that you can stop living and only begin dying, when you ask yourself 'where it all went'. Ask yourself how wrong it would have been to have lived for Desire, how wrong it would have been to fill your life with greater things, how wrong it would have been to have become a Pirate? Perhaps we all need a compass which points to what we want most in the world, the only trouble is we could not ever tell if it was true.