What If Everyone Just Did Their Jobs?

 A man falls in love with a girl, and decides to be with her for as long as he can

He decides to ensure that she feels loved, safe, and unburdened (not uninformed) by him

Instead of wondering where he is, she feels secure enough in his steadiness

That she can easily offer 80% of her life force to make another human from 2 cells

Knowing full well that he is there to replenish her with the 80% she needs

To live thereafter.

The parents offer the child the space needed to feel loved, safe and unburdened

As the child learns to navigate its multiplying cells, the confusion of being thrust into a world not of its making, but his to undertake.

The people, the noise, the colors, the emotions, the pains, the conversations, the crises

And each time he returns to the parents, who make him unburdened, and safe

For as long as needed. Almost forever.

Almost.

And the child becomes an adult, and starts building a space that makes him feel safe, loved and unburdened.

He finds it in friends, in jobs, in a smile from the right person, in purpose.

In the landlord who charges fairly, the insurer who pays up, the banker who keeps his money safe, in the cop who arrests the rulebreakers. 

The rule they broke? The cardinal one - To keep people safe and unburdened.

Because every adult out there is a child who left his home and is looking for another place to feel safe, loved and unburdened.

And every job we do – the teacher, the gardener, the engineer, the technocrat, the judge, the politician – exists to only answer one question.

“What can I do to make the most people feel safe and unburdened?”

To make sure that bridges don’t fall, that roads are traversable, the air is breathable

That people have homes, that food isn’t wasted, that sickness is treated, that water is clean

That voices are heard, that laughter is easy, and spirits are unbroken.

Why build missiles against such a people? Why grab at land pockets when the whole planet is safe? Why cut down forests that cleans our air? Why make materials that will scorch the planet? Why kill and eat children, when the whole world keeps them safe?

Can you imagine that world? A world that you meet with curiosity rather than apprehension? A world that IS the safety net for the adventures you choose to go on? At any corner of the planet, you will meet many who will care about what makes you feel safe and unburdened as easily as you sip a matcha at a café in the main street of your city. Imagine safety being as unplanned and careless as gravity.

‘Yes, you can leave your bag here, yes you can wear that dress, yes, this stranger can take you where you want to go, yes that’s a high that won’t kill you, yes the unisex bathroom is safe, yes this home is within your means, yes there’s easily available senior care, yes that surgery is affordable, yes you are safe, yes you are loved, yes, yes, yes.’

But instead, over and over, we put grifters in charge of security, criminals in charge of justice, human-haters in charge of health, cannibals in charge of food, warmongers in charge of peace. We put people who didn't come from safety, or love, in charge of providing it, and we reward them handsomely when they break that single cardinal rule.

And then we wonder why the world is what we made it and why nothing changes.