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Challenge of the Month XVI: July
World Stage. You have the entire world's attention and can say no more than 1,500 words. What say you? Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
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HazardRabbit

Planet Stage

What you are looking at is real, and not real. What you see is the human condition. Both good and bad. Ugly and beautiful. What you see is greed, rage, love, compassion, confusion, delusion, rude, weird and mysterious. This is the stage we dance on, fight on, sleep on, work on, play on, cheat on, laugh, cry, and reflect on. We write the parts and fight for the parts and dance to the parts willfully, unevitably, and with our mortatily. We are born to die first and foremost. And then we are born to share, entertain, inspire, help, hurt, teach, destroy, and conquer. This is our human condition. We are not perfect in our standards we made because we made them. But we are beautifully unapologetically flawed. At the roots of our trees we are all the same, because we all want the same thing. We all want to be loved. Even if some of us don't know what that means or how to accept it, you want it. How to get it is simple really. You just have to give it. I like to think life is a movie, it runs a good story and is over. Make it worthwhile to watch. And if you prefer to be a bird and just observe, there are people who like to birdwatch too. But please, stop. Stop thinking life is about materialism. Objects are not living things, they can't relate to you. But other people can. Life isn't about division either. Unity comes from accepting differences, like not having the same view point. Cherish people who have different perspectives. And respect those who have concrete beliefs even if they seem old-fashion. We aren't living a one dimensional existence. Life isn't about proving who knows the most facts either. Because what are facts? Science for example is always changing and evolving, so know one can really ever know anything. All science is is theories. And maybe life is one big theory. Most importantly, stop pretending other peoples experiences are your own. Live your life based off of your life, not from reading or watching someone elses. The world is much larger than what we can view from looking on a screen.