Since it was the only place we could watch the Michigan State Basketball game, Chris and I went to a local bar tonight for dinner. They also had the Laker's game on, so every booth and table was filled with people. I don't know if it was this particular bar's customers, or if I was just more in tune tonight, but my lord, it is so creepy to watch people shut themselves entirely off from everything around them. I swear, half of that restaurant was filled with dead-eyed fish people, slumped over in their chairs waiting for someone or thing to renew their empty existence. Watching them walk to the bathroom was like attending a master class in zombie acting.
People are drinking and drugging themselves into spaced out oblivion in a feeble attempt to ignore the world crumbling around them. I say that not as a teetotaler, or in any form of judgment, because god knows I've been there. Unplugging your brain and plugging in the USB or cable cord instead isn't helping either, both of which I am also guilty of doing. However, at some point, we're all going to have to wake up to the fact that our world is being driven right off the cliff, and we're the feckless passengers in the back of the bus holding on for dear life. Numbing ourselves and pretending it isn't happening not only won't make it all magically go away, it can make it much, much worse.
I am making plans to plug myself back into life. I can't change the whole world, but I can change the little, minuscule corner that I have been blessed with. If enough of us do it, oh what a difference we might make.
~Jenn
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I've been concerned for quite a while about the prevailing "the hell with tomorrow" attitude in our society. It started in business, when CEO's became willing to essentially dismantle a company to earn a quarterly profit so the stockholders would be pleased and give them a bigger bonus. Now it's spread to society as a whole.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me glad I'm old and childless.
The belief that I have that helps me to cope is this; humanity is an experiment. On this plane, everything that happens matters very much. But on the next plane, it's just a learning experience. This planet will heal and flourish long after we are gone as a species and our energies will be somewhere doing something, and hopefully we'll have learned from our mistakes.
ReplyDeleteSo focusing on making your little corner of the world better is all you can do, and it's enough. If enough of us focus on that, if nothing else our lives and the lives of those we touch shall be transformed.
Judy, I agree 1000%. And, now that callous corporate attitude has brought us very close to our ruin.
ReplyDeleteBrig, that's a beautiful way of looking at it. I love that.
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