Down side Up!

Some thoughts can be quite menacing! In a world where it's difficult to tell truth from fiction(people lose themselves in movies cause they can't seem to trust the news) Hollywood gets a bigger audience than CNN. seems the world is upside down doesn't it? Criminals roams the streets freely while decent citizens cage themselves behind bars.

Did you get a chance to catch Constantine? Meet John Constantine(Keanu Reeves) Returned suicide "victim" turned demon slayer trying to earn his way into heaven. Appears Gabriel pulling his strings trying to bring about the end of the world and John needs to call in the devil to set things right.

Gabriel: If sweet, sweet God loves you so, then I will make you worthy of His love. But it's only in the face of horror that you truly find your noble self. And you can be so noble. So... I will bring you pain, I will bring you horror. So that you may rise above it. So that those of you who will survive this reign of hell on earth will be worthy of God's love.

Erie as the thought may be, it got me to thinking. In the face of eminent death even the worst of us calls on a power outside of ourselves. And in that moment, in that instant you can see our souls. But give us riches beyond measure and watch us fight, squabble murder, deceive and whatever else we can do so that we may possess it.
What is it that is in us that causes us to be this way? There is great and powerful good in us, All of us, yet we can only unearth it in the direst of circumstances. Is there a place inside us that we can get to, to bring out the good inside us? Or must we all walk through the fire so that we may truly be all we can?
What is the crucible that you must go through so that you may become what you were meant to be? What if in in all our attempts to protect ourselves from the harsh realities of the world, we are actually sealing our own fate with it's destruction. Trapping ourselves in it and actually giving up the thing we truly desire. The freedom to truly enjoy life and happiness without fear.