True Value

This might sound corny. Idealistic. Perhaps even insincere.

But I really do wish the world would value what is really important.

Value People and Planet over Profit.

Humanity over Hierarchy.

Wish that we hadn’t enslaved millions for a bit of sugar. A bit of coffee. A bit of chocolate.

A bit of Profit, prestige and power.

That no infant would be killed by her family, just because she was a girl. Just because she was a burden, in the world of misplaced values.

That money was treated as it should be. As a means to an end. A tool to achieve something great. Something better, for everyone.

Not as an end in itself.

Because without people planet and humanity, money would not exist. Not vice versa.

It only has value, so far as it achieves what really matters.

And if we lived by that, there would be no slavery for profit. No killing to save on a dowry. No climate destruction just to make the bottom line.

I desire a world of true values.