Rules and Regulations

Thoughts are running through my head. A mile a minute. One after the other. Rushing in like a force of water, fighting its way against the rocks but always strong enough to sneak through the smallest of cracks and pass by... Until the thoughts get swept up in a whirlwind, spinning, wishing, washing into white riffs and circling, circling, circling.... The movement forward has stopped... Caught in a dam. There is no forward. The wall has been hit... 
Circling.... circling...circling. 

The topic: Rules and Regulations. 
...Between People. 

What constitutes the rules? 

I find it all too interesting the way in which we automatically assume one way and go with it, or assume what someone 'wants' and follow that path. 
Is there genuinely a person who is okay with being 100% them self?, without fear of another walking away? 
Who is willing these days to lay all their cards out on the table and say "here's who I am", pick up or pass?" 
And isn't that truly, exactly what we need to do? 

At this day and age-- people confuse lust with love, needs with wants and desires, and will take the smallest piece of bait and run with it...

Why? 

Are we a people so desperate and deprived of self-confidence that any form of attention will be sufficient? 
A people so deprived of genuine unconditional love that a touch of the hand and a look of the eye is convincing of security? 

Wrong. 

Nothing could be more wrong. 

Can we be a humanity that seeks to encourage others? A humanity that wishes well on every person that passes by? 
Can we challenge ourselves to love the person in front of us?, without knowing whether they will accept or decline the kindness from within? 

Why do we regulate how we should act in a relationship? 

Can we grasp the concept of "I am who I am, love me for the good and the bad, the ups and the downs, the normal and the crazy? And I will, in turn do the same for you? .. Putting your needs before my own, because I care for you?" 

Can you give up self to gain perhaps the best thing you have ever experienced? 

Passion. 

Having read the saying that our human compulsion is either to rehearse what will be or rehash what has been-- to me lies the answer. We focus on the wrong things---past or future.... but the only place where life may be fully lived is here in the present moment. 
We need to knock down the ideas of rules and regulations... Face each other with non-judgement and give love... embrace our fears of being real--- it is in embracing these fears, that we will find our very own hearts.

Thus being able to give freely-- without the chains that bind us and throw the 'rule book' we've let condition us out the window... 

The rear view is small so as not to be viewing so much of the past. The windshield is large, so as to see what is right in front of us. 

*Goodbye rule book-- as the pages tear at the seams and fly away in the wind* 

I am me. 
God fearing. Crazy. Sweet. Wild. Stubborn. With the greatest desire to help everyone I come into contact with, at least once. 
I argue. I laugh. I cry. 
I feel. I struggle. I win. I lose. 
I'm honest. 
All I can be is all I can be. I keep trying. 

While having 'nothing' to offer in terms of 'today's society', I have a heart-- willing to endure, willing to just be. 

I am me. 
No rules. No regulations.