"WHO WE ARE"     BY CARLOS TREVIÑO

Who are we? I am not just talking about those of us in here. But I am talking about you & I, those around us. Many of ya'll will know who you are. Many don't know who they are. Others just don't care... In everything, that I write is by experience and where life has taken me. So who are we in general? We use everyone around us, our family, children & friends as if their trust & love were expendable & meaningless. We think of ourselves first & others second. "We lie, cheat and steal in little ways, thinking it's unimportant, justifying it by saying to ourselves that others do it, so it is ok that we do it too. We almost trust no one. We have no understanding nor patience with the wrongs and mistakes of others (BUT WE WANT ALL THE UNDERSTANDING & PATIENCE OF THE WORLD, WHEN IT COMES TO OUR WRONGS & MISTAKES). We have no empathy for their despair; we have no compassion for their suffering and misery. The lost souls that roam the streets are not our concern; they are examples of our failure and our embarrassment to us. It's best to ignore them. If they have nowhere to live it's their own fault. If they happen to disappear, it will provide us space to live and breathe, for they cause nothing but trouble."

People all around us are fast to complain about prostitution, gang and criminal activity. Always expect for the police or those in authority to fix the problem(s). Always expecting someone else to fix the problem(s), when they themselves can try to fix the problem(s). Or try to reach out to those lost souls. Especially children or a child.

Most of us become lost souls as children. For many different reasons. When a child steps into the streets, within the first breath they inhale, they lose their innocence. By the time they exhale, they are now twice as old.

Many of us (You & I) know of a lost soul/child who is turning down the wrong road. But do we try to reach out to that lost soul/child? NO, we complain, call the police and blame everyone else, starting with that lost soul/child parent(s). We are fast to judge this lost soul/child, never knowing their story. Instead, we are fast to hate this lost soul/child giving them dirty looks. Teaching them to hate with a simple dirty look. What I don't understand is how can people stare at a lost soul and instantly hate that child/lost soul, because they have on ragged clothes. What makes that child/lost soul (or poor people) so different? Are we really not worth the air we breathe?

So, when these people who are fast to complain and judge, as soon as they see this lost soul/child do something wrong, they are fast to YELL for justice and for BLOOD. It's easy to wish me death simply because I am on death row. It's easy to read about me and judge me without knowing my story nor the law or the truth. If it's death that you wish for me, that is ok. But let me ask you this... how will my death solve anything? Will my death prevent the possibility of lost souls taking innocent lives? What will my death teach these lost souls & people? Will all murders stop? To really judge a lost soul on a personal level is a lot harder because you have to get to know the person. So it's easier to judge, hate and wish me dead. Cause as humans we are faster to hate and kill. But we are extremely slower to try to love and heal each other. To hate & kill takes no skills. But to love & heal takes skills.

My point being is that the next time you see a lost soul/child, try reaching out to them. Cause tomorrow's wrongs & mistakes will be done by our children. So, if we can reach a child/lost soul and show them the right path of life, then chances are that we will not only save one life, but the lives of innocent people in the future. I know that we can't save all the lost souls. But when one lost soul is saved, so is the possibility of innocent lives. If you don't wish to reach out to a lost soul/child, then don't be so fast to judge, hate, kill and yell for justice/BLOOD when that lost soul does something wrong, especially when you had the chance to reach out to that lost soul...

My next thoughts of life experiences will be about how we become lost souls, the reasons behind it...

By: Carlos Trevino

Dec. 2006

D.R.I.V.E.

DEATH Row INNER-COMMUNALIST VANGUARD ENGAGEMENT