We are truly blessed not to be faced with hardships and suffering that is unimaginable that has been part and parcel human existence almost our entire history. This is also a load we must bare....we haven’t learned how to handle our free time....a luxury we have mo experience with through ancestry. If you plow a mule in the sun all day long petty differences have less meaning cause you are tired. There is a lot of truth to the old maxim that idol hands are the devils workshop. We are idol most of the time and therefore makeup shite to busy ourselves with.....taking kids to after school activities they are only interested in to humor us, buying shite we don’t need and don’t want ( ride through a typical subdivision on a Saturday morning when garage doors are open....loads of expensive shite we no longer use if we ever did). We buy shite because we have time and money to do so.....then we don’t have the time or money to use it so we buy the next thing. We push ourselves to stress because we don’t know what to do when our basic needs are met and there is still daylight out.....so we turn introspective. We try to answer why we feel angst and look for someone to blame....and there are a lot of people making a lot of money and garnering a lot of power facilitating the idea that our angst is the others fault.

I suspect people were anxious in the early days of the industrial revolution.....there was a lot of turmoil for certain. We are in the same phase with the Information Age. We have the collective knowledge of mankind at our finger tips and it is over whelming. Couple this with loads of free time we look for ways to fil, mostly with meaningless bullshite....and here we are.

I have known from an early age that being positive is contagious as is being negative. In the last 6 months or so I have started working hard to apply this knowledge to everyday life. I go out of my way to be nice to folks. It costs nothing and is very rewarding. Just thank you and how are you doing....that sort of thing. I am also making a conscience effort to listen to people when they speak....it’s amazing! I am not suggesting it’s for everyone but I find I am much happier being nice to people and going out of my way to communicate....and listening is about 9/10s of communication. I don’t know if it will make the world a better place but I know for certain it has made MY world better for me.