Endless BAD news!

What does it achieve? Alienation from the group! Its easy to disengage from bad news than good news. It makes us feel we are not to blame. Blame! There's another reason we disengage. When it's so good there is nothing to be afraid of!. We can carry on believing we are okay and those who suffer brought it on themselves. This is how we create the space to think only how well we are doing. The world is working just fine because I am fine. More than anything we need to care for others not because we can congratulate ourselves on being fine but this whole project call the world is a mark of how and what we are doing. I know that if my neighbour is being battered its not my fault but fault is a means not an end. It lets me know how well I am doing and how distant I am towards the general public. We cannot press one button and change the world. We need to find ways to reach out and listen. We can't congratulate good fortune for ourselves. We can't blame ourselves either if we haven't done harm to others unless we did do something to hurt them. But we are not free to assume all is well if we are happy. This is a complex world. The killer reported on the news might not have done bad things and the good guy might not be good. Judging is useful for our own well being but it does not guarantee rightousness. I need to know what is happening even though it doesnt make me a good person. Good and bad. Oversimplifications. Only helps one to be smug and self satisfied. Those who have good education, nice homes, happy families did not necessarily deserve it. Winning awards, higher education, and good luck does not prove we deserved it, neither does bad luck means we deserve to suffer. Good and bad, rich and poor, right and wrong - are not indicators or our worth. Our minds and hearts are complex. What we feel and think is mostly about observation and opinion is about what we believe for our own satisfaction.

Who Are We?

 

Such a question is bound to receive contempt from many readers?

I know I am a woman in her seventies.

When I was younger I was pretty. vacuous and insecure. I would easily dissolve in tears. Because I watched my mother spend all her waking hours, cleaning, cooking and gardening. Sometimes she would sit down and light a cigarette. Her advice was short. But she was popular with men which was more of a hindrance than asset in the end.

In our family we were doers more than thinkers and so success or fame was out of reach. But we were practical people. I was happy to sit and draw, sing or act in plays. When I told my family I wanted to be a film star. They laughed.

Now I understand why.

Wealth, greed and beauty is a performance. Most of the advertised beliefs are directed toward the public to keep us in "the dream". I soon realized this was not happy-making. I even believed it was not necessary to be "a success". It was to keep the public occupied. 

We cannot be happy continuously trying to get ahead, feeling insecure whenever we hear of someone's success, trying to be top of the class.

Now I want everyone to be happy.

Shazam The Movie

 I watched this from beginning to end to try and find the meaning in the story.

All I can remember is the power displayed by the heroes. Becoming monsters, crushing ordinary people, and developing the power to blow them about, to become large, angry and scary.

Lots of loud sound, lots of rage, big monsters crushing ordinary people, then ordinary people rising above this with their own strength. It lasted for more than 2 hours, things blowing up, flying, falling down.

Big sound.

Antisemitism - We must stop it

 

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/anti-semitism-101/

I feel strongly that hatred of people who come from different histories, reveals hatred for humanity. And now that billionaires are blamed for ruling the world, we, humanity must find new ways to go forward.

Contempt for life itself is the cause of fear in our minds and hearts.

Happy Birthday Simon

Wishing you a lovely evening to finish off the beautiful day.

And may all your hopes come true.

much love Granny

I LOVE HEALTH CARE WORKERS

It can't be easy. Going to the homes of those who need your service, need to be bathed, need to ask questions about health when hospitals and doctors services are so difficult to find. Waiting lists are long for any public service and private services cost so much.

Needs for people are everywhere and tv programs are mostly cartoonish struggles to win, cats and dogs with superhuman powers. Yes it can be entertaining but it has no real message for humanity in a time when it appears our world is taken over by a starving economy. Now more than ever we need compassion, social responsibility. 

People willing to visit sick and disabled people are not likely to be praised even though their service is saving lives. 

Can We Survive the Monitization of "Truth"?

 

As I scroll through the emails waiting quietly on my mail, I wonder if they are worth the time?

First of all most of them have not been invited. Some are easily deleted and some are welcomed. But then I wonder who should I believe? Is it worth the wondering?