Cessation: (n) the process of ending
“All good things come to an end.”
Unfortunately, all bad things don’t.
For some reason we get bored with good things and decide to either evolve them or abandon them. But bad things seem to be granted social
tenure. They get to hang around even if they do stupid stuff.
Why? Because bad things are grouchy and good things smile.
It’s a lot easier to ask someone who’s smiling to go to the back of the bus than it is to approach a grouchy person with such a request.
Yes, it’s true. As long as the black man smiled back at the white bigot, not much happened–which brings me to one of the things that demands cessation in our country:
Racism.
Truthfully it will not leave until we stop talking about the beauty of cultures and the glories of separate ethnic practices. Even though we insist that everybody is different and that it’s a good thing, we work like hell to try to find common conversation and similar ground. Otherwise, parties would just be drinking in silence.
Another thing that demands cessation is genderism.
There are those who think it’s cute to point out the difference between men and women, and in doing so, keep women in a position of scrounging for crumbs of praise, while denied the cake.
And if you don’t mind, I’ll close by saying that we need a cessation on the idea of being tough.
I don’t know how that works. If everyone is tough, isn’t that just a world filled with cranky people instead of toughness?
Someone has to be kind–otherwise, nothing happens.
Nothing breaks.
Nothing changes.
Cessation will occur when we stop being afraid of grouchy people–because we decide we enjoy smiling ones.
Thank you for enjoying Words from Dic(tionary) — J.R. Practix
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