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If You Ruled the World

If you ruled the world, if you could make the earth rotate and twirl, what is something positive that you would do for every man, woman, boy, and girl? If you would stick your finger in the ground and turn the whole world around, what would be considered righteous or out of bounds? What would be lifted up? And what would be cast down?

If you ruled the world and the earth was your oyster or pearl, and everything you would say was the law, from sea to shining sea, from shore to shore, your word could not be challenged or ignored; what would be your legacy (something you could leave behind for all to see) that would stand the test of time? Imagine if you had the power and the means to live out your earthly fantasies and dreams in a fairy-tale atmosphere in exotic scenes; would you be stuck-up, nasty, and mean? Or giving, generous, and charitable, be a part of the living? Or would self-centeredness, selfishness, and greed be your only vice and need?

If you could live out your fantasy and dream, what would be your national anthem and theme? If you could live your dreams, would you assist and help someone else to live out their hopes, goals, and ambitions (that could turn out to be a reality and not something they are just wishing)? Would you ignore the needs of the disadvantaged, sick, and poor? Would you outlaw war and help others to knock down education’s door? Would you build untold mansions for yourself or build thousands of hospitals for the needs of someone else?

If you had the means to live out your dreams, would you clean, sweep, scrub, and rebuild the ghettos and slums to make sure all could read, write, and do mathematics (to where no one would be considered illiterate, stupid, or dumb)? Everyone would have a decent place to live and sleep, where people would always have enough food to eat.

What about ecology? Would you help to clean up the land, air, beaches, oceans, and seas so we all could live a good, clean life and breathe nontoxic, pure, unpolluted air? Would you dare to care about whales, elephants, lions and bears or anyone besides yourself if you had an abundance of riches and wealth? What about hate, racism, and discrimination? Would you open up lines of communication to do something to change this devilish, ignorant, narrow-minded situation that has lasted and gone on and existed far too long? Would you correct this wrong and make it right, where intolerance and prejudice would be outlawed under the sun and God’s heavenly light? Would you create jobs and teach people skills so everyone could pay their bills to take care of their financial ills in order to fulfill their hopes and dreams?

If you had the power or means to stop drug addiction (where drug dealers would become fiction), and people would no longer be slain or killed by drugs, guns, or knives, because every human life is considered precious and dear, for it belongs to God—from the bottom of their feet to the tops of their head and to the center of their hearts—will you do your part? From the beginning to the start to create a special place that is real? An oasis where all men and women are accepted by their peers, where love for your fellow man is not looked at as funny or queer? Where mothers no longer are crying and sobbing hurtful tears (because premature death of their children is no longer a part of their fears)?

Grateful people who live in a world where no one any longer dwells on or thinks about suicide because they lost their inspiration and pride, they feel like they hate themselves and can no longer just go along for the ride if you rule the world and universe; would you always put God first, the living supreme ultimate infinite being who quenches our needs, hunger, and thirst? The one who gave the earth and all of us life and birth?