Anger, by Ricky

“Tranquility base here.  The Eagle has landed.”  The first astronauts to land on the moon, found an environment completely serene and peaceful.  Of course it would be because there were no people there until then.  It’s a pity that our planet is not so tranquil.

Earth is still geologically active and also has an energetic atmosphere, so there are naturally occurring events that would disturb the quiet nature of a planet at rest.  But the tranquility to which I am assigning my “it’s a pity” is the lack of peacefulness between people, cultures, and nations.

Situations continuously arise which allow people to make themselves irritated.  Irritation leads to frustration.  Frustration leads to anger.  Anger leads to hate.  Hate leads to violence.  Violence leads to war.  War leads to destruction.  Destruction leads to famine, pestilence, and death.

I think we need an organization that can roundup all the hate and war mongers and send them to the moon so we can have peace on earth and they can experience tranquility there.  Maybe we could let them stay there "to infinity and beyond."

© 9 June 2014 

About the Author 

 I was born in June of 1948 in Los Angeles, living first in Lawndale and then in Redondo Beach.  Just prior to turning 8 years old in 1956, I began living with my grandparents on their farm in Isanti County, Minnesota for two years during which time my parents divorced.

When united with my mother and stepfather two years later in 1958, I lived first at Emerald Bay and then at South Lake Tahoe, California, graduating from South Tahoe High School in 1966.  After three tours of duty with the Air Force, I moved to Denver, Colorado where I lived with my wife and four children until her passing away from complications of breast cancer four days after the 9-11-2001 terrorist attack.

I came out as a gay man in the summer of 2010.   I find writing these memories to be therapeutic.

My story blog is, TheTahoeBoy.Blogspot.com.