3…2…1…Slightly Move!

An Elective on Perspective

                                                     by UMES Junior Brittany Johnson

3…2…1…Slightly Move!

Direct action is to shift from the order of the day. Did you know that? I didn’t know that. I didn’t know that until I went to our Black History Month lecture by our UMES alum, Sherman Lambert. This shed light on my own partial commitments. Not being for something but not feeling strongly enough to speak out against it creates a blurred line so that you yourself no longer know where you stand, all boundaries erased. 

You have to feel out the situation to know where you stand! Well, while feeling out the situation you may compromise your own position because you didn’t directly oppose; rather, you endorsed it by default. If you’re not standing against, it would be too easy to assume that you are standing for.  

Indefinite terms leads to indefinite feelings which result in indefinite actions. Kind of like how most people think that “resist” means, “to crawl away and hope that it catches you.” When in reality, it means to abstain from, oppose, to stand against; just as “shift” doesn’t mean “slightly move” but to change direction completely. But, this is the world that practices half doing things. We half way love people and expect a full relationship. We half way take care of people and expect them to be fully sufficient on their own. We half way speak up and expect to be heard. We half way study and expect all of the credits. We half way work and expect to reap full benefits. We ease on down the road and expect full profit from our half way efforts. 

No one has ever made it to their destination only willing to make half of the trip.

Indirect action is to somewhat move from the order of the day. Now that sounds doable! That sounds much better than direct action. Direct actions require too much consistency and purposeful doings. In the words of my esteemed Sweet Brown, “Ain’t nobody got time for that!” Good observation, Sweet. I know I don’t have time for that. Although indirect routes lead you off course, onto a course that not even you can delineate, I think I’ll take my chances. We’re here to drift, right? I think not! We live in a world, in a universe, in the midst of space, and this world is spinning on its own axis to make its course purposeful, ordered, and direct. I conclude that even the most seemingly unbalanced wonders need precise groundwork in order to function and stay consistent. Don’t be afraid to make your actions purposeful and direct. The world can never fulfill its purpose believing it’s a motionless star.    

You’ve just taken, An Elective on Perspective



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