This week's piece is written by Jim Ghedi, a multi talented individual with hands in music, acting, art and the like. We are grateful to Jim for this article but please note that the contents of the piece are solely the views of its writer and not the blog's author. Enjoy!
The extraordinary beauty and richness of the world cannot be comprehended by any human capacity, we all await what we cannot comprehend and in that there is a beautiful contradiction.
So when we pass on, this power we hold within ourselves opens up to this universal collective energy, what I like to call eternity's soul. That is why while we're all on this physical plain we must together work industriously for human virtues, serve and uphold common goodness for humanity over material means. The key is solidarity.
My ideas are formed on moral incentives, throughout history good men have been demonized for their freedom of thought, through time we must learn and if time has taught us anything it has been solidarity to continue to shape each others vision and push each other creatively for the benefit of humankind.
Passion and love are the forces which motivate our worth, we cannot wait for change.
This society has us working for a meaningless existence, human beings serve an empty function in the concept of making money instead of working for the collective good of humanity or progressively into more positive areas of international social development, i.e. poverty, justice, aid, securing weapons and nuclear disarmament, peace, truth and love.
Let’s build for a better world instead of staying silent in this dehumanizing system that they trap us within. Inside this meaningless empty existence where human beings work to barely survive or feed their families lets connect and create a universal brotherhood and sisterhood with each other, let’s speak our hearts and use our voice for the benefit of humanity. Universal love is what I plead for and seek.
The ability of all beings to carry the spirit of good is embodied within us all. I realise this will sound like another leftist, hippie idealism, but ideals were built upon for others to direct through cultural activism, without ideals there we would stand voiceless.
Truth, love and the oneness of God is the basis upon which this idealism is built. I echo the ideology of Malcolm X, God being a concept which isn't in any religious form but binding the world’s energies together through a mutual existence. If I could leave anything on this earth it would be the memory of this, that I in anyway pushed for this vision to be shared everyday of my life.
Through music and creative arts as my only weapons to express this, I shall use it as the platform and as music is the only food for my soul, strength is love. Let us learn from the message great spirits have left for us. In love and peace we shall flourish.
Jim Ghedi is a Sheffield based musician, poet, writer and general maverick artist. He is currently involved in two main projects in Sheffield under names of Black Gold Of The Sun (His band) & Jim Ghedi and Neal Heppleston (His duo work with a double bass player).
Gaining attention around Manchester as a poet in the previous years, his focus now in his words is "making as much music as possible and giving as much goodness to humanity" he continues “I have always had a general disregard for my own life, my purpose is for others"
He grew up around music and plays several instruments. He also started writing his own music from the age of 8. Jim also has a keen interest in performing arts and has studied Theatre Acting at a performing arts school, thereby adding other strings to his bow.
His philosophy is Art as Activism, he states "I measure richness in life, on someone’s humanity, morality and what is within that human being, it's not about money, it's actually very simple, it's about living your life and expressing your feelings"
At the age of 21 he is a great up and coming artist who shows in-depth philosophical insight, keen observation, a desperate plea to a world to connect and a general voice which has a bitter truth to it. All of this is reflected within his works which are available to the public.
You can catch him at his upcoming gigs advertised on his websites (http://www.facebook.com/JimGhediNealHeppleston and http://www.facebook.com/BlackGoldOfTheSunMusic). He is also present on twitter at @ghediheppleston
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