There Is Hope

As I sit in my living room dealing with a fibromyalgia flare that started a week ago, my brain is deciding to start working again. Possibly because I got two naps in today. Instead of writing what my mind is coming up with, I'm posting it...

We (We the people? We the people of the world?) are frustrated with how the world is working right now. Politicians are fighting for something only they want in America and other countries are dealing with their issues, some dire and yet not changing or at least they aren't getting better because the people in power are also fighting for something only they want.

I just now realized how I can have hope in the human race. While we each deal with the issues that arise for ourselves, the big picture is evolving with how we handle those issues. I think that now that many people have grasped that we don't have to pick one thing to be, one career to live with for the rest of our lives, that we can move on from what we were doing be it something good or bad and we can be better people for that lesson in our personal lives. Actors/actresses don't have to be just that for the rest of their lives. A secretary doesn't have to be a secretary forever. Your cab driver might be a great teacher, but you see only a cab driver.

There are now over 7 billion people in this world. A number unfathomable up to about the year 2000. That's 7 billion different points of view on life, 7 billion different ideas on any given topic, 7 billion different paths in life, and so on.

Since everyone learns at their own pace, I can have patience with that process and I can have hope that we will overcome the people that fight change for the benefit of personal profit. With so many people seeing that they aren't stuck with the life they "chose" because they can still have that life and career and add to it, I think we are heading in the right direction. Finally. The movement of the 60s and 70s in America was a good start, but it still fought change by disregarding what was happening. (If we didn't have that to learn from, however, I wouldn't know personally about not fighting life so much and I'm sure I am not the only one.) Some said We don't want technology, we want a simple life and I will not buy into this technologic way of life. That was a fight that was not won. Of course some still fight it. That will always happen. There is a balance to find and it will change. When we can learn to deal with change without getting angry, and not getting angry may be to not get angry at someone who is angry-remember that they don't see what you do (and vice versa) and you don't have to force them to understand...as we may all know by now, people fight even harder to accept an understanding if it is forced upon them. When we deal with change comfortably, we can collectively work with issues that come up nationally and globally, find solutions and move on. One way might be to say Let's try this for a certain amount of time and see what happens rather than writing it off altogether or saying it is the only thing that will work..then we can add to the idea or take out things that aren't working instead of saying this is how it's going to be. For people in power, that might be to realize you are not benefiting your people, own up to it and what you have done, and find a way to resolve the issues. We are not doomed to continue on one path. I think that leaders think they look weak or somehow bad if they show that they realized they did something wrong. Learning isn't weak. (It frustrates me to see so many leaders, Kings, Queens, Presidents, politicians, etc, say they did nothing wrong as if they were owed all the bad they caused. It's happened for centuries and you still haven't learned how to be a good person?)

Personally, I want to thank the democrats and the republicans in America for acting so selfishly and stupidly. Instead of verbally bashing any of our politicians, I say their stupid shit is helping many people learn what not to do. Not everyone is acting irrationally, but either we like to focus on the stupidest people or the media thinks that's what we want to know about so they focus on it for us. I can't wait for news networks to catch up and focus on more good things. For me, good is bringing up ideas without ridicule, jokes are great-ridicule is different, and not letting any person, company, corporation, or country stifle what can come of creation.