Okay,It is now T-minus whatever days to the alledged end of the world.I am as usual putting off my packing and saying my fairwells to the people I know.Procrastination is: avoiding the things we should,would and probly could do now.I have no assurance of the end ,so I will put it off all till the trembling of earth,streaking earthward of comets,or super storm begins building in the distance.
If the end is going to start in a few days that is.The preparers of doomsday will be so embarrassed to find another false end day happen.In the meantime,there is the declining ablility of the human race to
maintain a patient state of mind regarding that end of time event.Some would wish to excel the end by their own efforts.Read on that I may explain abit.
The News casts have a tragic and un-needed crime in the boadcast or front page.Some one shoots a mass of happy shoppers.These are "random"victims that do not even know the shooter.The mind that has taken the non replacable life of these people has not the abilities to see Their values. That mind is clouded from the selfish persons loathing and self pity.The dark and sinister forces are in complete control of the "shooter,Jumper,etc".
This time of year brings about the best and worst of a human.The animal kingdom pretty much is cruising along at the same pace as usual.Christmas is a thing of the "modern"age.At least the commercial part.The human created stress,anquish,expectations,depression,longing to be with others etc,etc.etc. is not a part of the normal animal kingdom.It is MAN MADE!
We make up our own
little bubble of dispair for self destuction.The world has not changed.Nature is at a constant pace and standard.The catalysts that brings about a "shooter" or suicide is created by the person themselves.Looking for the world to self destruct like a b rated movie won't solve any problems.
If it were to happen the "shooter" personality would probly be horribly satisfied to take others with themselves.When it does not,They simply add to their own miserable mental processes.The ill state of thought builds and the situation becomes overwhelming.
The flip side is the wondrful things that never make the headlines.Families that are at wits end to bring a happy holiday to their loved ones.Being Happy,Healthy and together should be the best of times to remembers.Some folks don't have family to share with. The families that are giving to others the gift of happiness.
The organizations that donate to the homeless and shutins.the elderly that have been encarcerated for the crime of living far to long.Thousands of years of life experience that are imprisoned till they die.Thousands of lifetime experiences wasting into death.Their holiday will only be what they can remember.Forgotten by the world they loved and lived in.The past and labelled ancient societies left the elderly out in the wilderness to die.We modern folks are much more suffisticated.We lock them up,feed them puried grewl that looks like regurgitation and isolate them so the mental facalties rot into babbling.Yeah,we have come a long way from those primitives of long ago.Personaly I hope to be able to wonder off into the wilderness near the end of life.
The people who are labled abnormal by the other normal?(What is Normal anyway ?)Example of What is the norm for "normal" folks.Convincing not so dumb children that an obese and ancient magic man looking like a cleaned up vagrant can slide down a 6inch chimney without setting off burglar al;arms.Then sliding back up said chimney to fly off in a reindeer drawn sleigh.ETC,ETC,
The Rotary,Lions,Elks,VFW,Odd Fellows,Catholic Charities.Many Church organizations.To many organizations to list. Are active in helping families to get through the Holiday season.The people that are quietly in the background of greatness.These folks enlighten the burden of people that would not have any holiday.They are always doing quiet and wonderful things throughout the year for others.The efforts are increased for the holiday season due to demand of the season.
The soup kitchens close for the holidays.Homeless folks simply have no holiday.Those that have fallen through the social cracks have nowhere to go.They have nowhere to sleep.Nowhere to share with family or friends.Holidays are a matter of survival from the cold and just making it till things open again.These people are absolutly in the arms of the Angels.They are the Untouchables of our western societies.People avoid them due to the bad elements that make the news like the shooters.
There is millions of unemployed,homeless persons that are living beneath the social radar in the USA alone.These folks never are in the news and would only be there if they adapt the mindset of the shooters.Desperation without reason of thought.
The thing that I wish to state here is that these people have hit a level of existance that the Shooter has not even approached yet.You rarely hear of the homeless,who have nothing,nowhere,no one,rarely get arrested for much more than petty(survival) crimes.Is there an excuse for the "shooters"to justify their actions.
I would wish those reading this to keep a calm mind this season.There is always a peaceful solution to problems that accur.If nothing else go somewhere and sleep on it.when your rested,the problem may look better.Get away from the source of agrivation and rethink how to find the cause of it.
I once told a student I was teaching to go outside and scream at the top of his lungs till he felt better.He thought Me crazy.I later heard a loud shreak outside and it was him screaming again and again.He walked back in,slightly hoarse.said you were right.I feel better.He became my best student...
There is better ways than blaming others for your self made bubble of dispair.If I may echo my favorite qoute:
Within you lies the power to seize the hour and live your dream.You have that power,if you chose to use it.
Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Yearo you.
RJP
