Still tired, still alive
So much has happened around the world this week it is hard just to keep up with the craziness. There was much sadness in the USA, probably the toughest event to comprehend. Our hearts go out to the families.
There were political leaders saying and doing stupid things all over the place. Conflict spots around the world just seem to get worse.
It has been a week, so far at least, of wondering what the world is coming to. I find it hard to write when everything around me seems to be falling apart. Not around me personally: the wider world we live in.
We have our house move looming, so naturally we are busy on a personal level. Mr O started back at school this week. I feel as if I need a week of sleep.
Hence we are quiet on the publishing front. Busy and suffering writer’s block due to sadness over world events about sums it up.
Yes life goes on around the world. I just wish as a species humans would be a little wiser. It is never too late for us to learn, surely.
I think that once one has directly experienced “deep” suffering in oneself and loved ones, that there is a deep connection, resonance and insight with that human family experience….and even a 5 second snippet of news can awaken that insight, confusion, frustration and connection…the positive is deeper empathy and resonance….the negative can be a plummeting mood. I don’t have the ability to stay outside of that “plummeting” experience, so I don’t watch any news on tv (actually seeing it makes it more difficult) and consciously avoid it, when I can in newspapers. (except for a quick look, to keep current and aware) AND, in response I try to live even more deeply from goodness, kindness and love…( or with a emerging, stronger voice for speaking, as you do)….to live with added energy of that, rather than to let myself go into sadness….but it still can be difficult. My “answer” is … “it’s often too complex for me to understand”…and to double and redouble my own efforts toward positive…
You may well have a very good perspective of the whole thing there.
I also think I am tired because it has, in anyone’s language, been a very big year for me. Also, I am not physically fit like I used to be and I do believe physical fitness has a lot to do with how we cope with day-to-day life. My family arrived, I changed jobs, and now we are moving. All three things alone are big changes with associated stresses, let alone the battle that went beforehand and the financial hardships we have been left with.
While we have the hope of the CDDA claim being accepted, that is all it is at this stage, a hope. There is no case officer allocated yet and I don’t know when one will be allocated.
I think I will feel much better when we have actually moved, as that is a drain on several fronts: time, money, energy……
I’ll avoid the news for a while!
I never turn the TV on, and I don’t read the newspapers either. There’s Internet, of course, but I try not to get overwhelmed. I don’t always make it, but I try.
That is a good plan! I do read the newspapers, on the computer: I rarely buy a paper. I also listen to the radio on the way to work.
I think all the bad news just freezes my brain cells sometimes!
My hubby and I decided a few years back that one daily dose of news for 15 minutes was enough for us — maybe even too much. Our heads aren’t in the sand but we do take responsibility for focusing on what’s positive, rather than falling into the pit of despair. The mainstream TV news focuses on the bad stuff because that’s what people will pay attention to. That’s what sells. They run with the sensational – it’s much easier to cover. We prefer listening to news on CBC radio or reading it to watching TV, though we do watch a couple of times weekly.
P.S. I’m in a writer’s block state as well. Some family stuff happened that truly bummed me right out and my muse took a unannouced vacation.
Sorry to hear of your family troubles, TT – I’ve just spent the evening visiting my eldest daughter is hospital – nothing as serious as your situation though, but I know it throws a spanner in the works.
I hope your relative has a speedy recovery.
I can’t quite find that balance between keeping up to date and ignoring the bad stuff on the news.
It doesn’t seem like we are learning, does it? So sad for future generations.
And, Barb, I think the older we get, the more we fear for the future generations. The more we realize the futility of human behaviours.
It is all horribly and overwhelmingly depressing sometimes isn’t it…. on an individual level all any of us can do is practice love and tolerance, bringing up our children to do the same and encourage them NOT to fall into the corporate designed trap of having to accumulate things that aren’t needed.. so that somone else can make fat profits… take it easy Robyn the end is in sight ( when the move is done that is
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Helen, this week globally has just been really bad. Our Australian politicians haven’t helped my thoughts at all either! You are right, of course, all we can do is concentrate on our own families and hope others do the same. Maybe in a few generations, humans may improve, although I have my doubts. History tells us we are not good at being nice to each other!
We certainly don’t seem to be evolving in the right direction…
I avoid the news when I’m overwhelmed. Had to make a new rule though. My husband is not allowed to tell me about the news either. Unless I ask. Which I don’t
Not a bad idea. I should try it!
I sometimes watch the news and I ask myself why?
Why do people commit murder ?
Why are there so mnay ongoing wars – have we learned nothing?
Why do the bankers who’ve brought financial misery to so many receive such big bonuses or payouts when they leave?
Why are politians such bloody liars – don’t they realise thier empty words fall on deaf ears as we no longer trust them?
Why am I watching the news when it’s so depressing?
I have the same questions, Carole. And no damn answers!
I was half listening to the news this evening and I thought of you. It was so depressing I turned it off.
How are you feeling, now – any better?