Have we lost wonder and excitement? Morning Coffee Thoughts

 

I've come to learn that being chronically ill means it's like living in Las Vegas, if the lights are on it's time to be up, no matter the time on clock - so, yeah, it's Vegas time around here some nights. The joys of having conditions that mess with your autonomic nervous system. It's getting better with low hist diet but I still have a couple of nights out of the week where I am wide awake.

When you're home a lot you do not get a true sense of what the outside world is like, only what you allow to filter in through your door and media outlets. I've also noticed that with all this whacky research I've been doing, my social media and Youtube feeds are a bit on the obscure side, no - a lot. 

I can see how people, especially elderly, or vulnerable fall down rabbit holes and never come up for air - they're terrifying and if not cautious could easily become the very mind control and operations I am researching. 

That on it's own - well, wow. 

It does make you wonder about the last couple of decades and the smoke and mirrors we all know were there, but not concrete enough to be sure. 

Fascinating - but yes, scary.

And, this is why I am advocating about finding your own spirituality before you bow and follow someone else's. If we all did that, we'd walk - freely - towards a better existence because harming it would be the furthest thing from our minds. This is where I am at and what I am working on practicing -have been for a while. It would be helpful if the world calmed their ass down, but until, I guess I keep trying.

The news is heavy - the air feels heavier and you can feel eggshells forming around us all. 

We deserve better, all of us. We don't deserve worrying about where the circus will take us tomorrow. It feels like the word war has been within reach my entire life. I remember seeing news clips on Vietnam - all the terrorism of the 70s and into the 80s. The 90s and 2000s, completely filled with it - and needless to say we've seen quite a bit from the world stage in the last 20 years. 

Why has it become normal? An everyday world? "We went to war last night, pass the sugar," - that shouldn't be! 

When I was young our world was much larger and smaller. I used to wonder about life in other countries, we couldn't pull up a video at whim. We had to search out that information in books and magazines, travel and news show. One year in school our teacher gave us information on international pen pals. I dove right in and within a couple of months had regular letter exchanges with kids from other countries - Poland, England, Indonesia..etc. It was exciting when a letter came in the mail. It would look different but the same - the writing was different from ours , the stamps, stationary..  It made learning about new places an accomplishment of sorts, knowledge - an education. 

Have we lost that? That wonder and excitement of discovery? It feels like it - I hope not. 

At the very least I hope my trip down the 60s California memory lane in my prior posts has at least been a distraction - perhaps educational too. And hopefully brings understanding to new generations of the chaos that ensued before they ever took a breath. 

Well - my morning coffee thought after a sleepless night. 

Be Well 💜💜💜