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Happy New Year! 2024!

Wow! 2024! Everyone, I am sure is wondering about what 2024 will become. There is so much happening all over the world. How to move forward and have happiness in one’s life when things are so absolutely crazy!

I keep thinking about “How do we actually move forward in times like this, when things are so difficult, when it feels like we are not affecting change in any significant way. This is an assumption, because I do not know how others really feel. It does depend on where you’re at physically and mentally. If your local to horrifying things, that is a whole other reality. If your touched by such horribleness, that is yet another reality. It can feel hopeless for those in such situations, and for those knowing others are in such situations. The important question is how to affect what is horrible according to what you personally can do. Who we are mentally and physically affects such efforts. Without getting into what these can be. Such things like age, disabilities ____these are obvious. I personally am no longer a younger person, and I do have things going on that affect me physically. However, I am an artist, and I write. With these abilities in mind, I ask myself what can I do? I can blog and discuss ideas that may be helpful. Thoughts, pearls of wisdom my grandmother would have called them. One reason I love books is that I come away with new ideas, and often have fresh approaches. I love to learn someone else is like minded.

I have run across the following concepts: Michael A Singer is one author who is up lifting. He has a pod cast I just learned. I will check it out. Titles of his books are as follows: The one that impressed me is, The Untethered Soul. I have both the audiobook and physical book. I have the card deck which make for great reminders, pulling one when I recall as food for thought. What I loved and which has definitely help me to move for and become “Happy for no reason”. The title for a book by another author, but also a video. Great too! ____What I loved about Michel’s pearls of wisdom was his teachings about thoughts we have. He points out that we don’t have to understand every thought come up. Personally, I have felt so tired of thinking! Tired of those thoughts that come up, and where I think I have to understand them all! The problem is that we feel we must understand, or that we will miss something if we do not take the time. We also feel a need to take a stand. have a bottom line we can justify who we are. We do need a bottom line! But if all we ever do is stack up the pros and cons, we eventually have no experience to go on but what we conclude as a truest reality or worse what is feed to us via different media, or through going along with ideas that sound good. Independent thought feels rare, and this is scary! It becomes easy to fall into what seems right. We have become a world full of people who have forgotten to trust in themselves. A world full of people who are very different from those who lived before them. This is not bad or good. It is what it is. But we need to believe in ourselves. The world has become so complex it is falling over and crashing! The process is a lot of propaganda, which makes use of stacking up all the pros and cons to get the answer it wants.

We do not take risk to really know the world nor other people in it. Fearing to live fully is not good. Yes, there are many people in the world. We do have commonalities, no matter what we do for jobs. We believe whatever we do, and this fuels our words and actions, if fuels our truest realities. I wonder if people stop to think about those words and actions and ask how accountable they are being. Never mind someone else. We all affect the world by who we are! One person at a time. Self-examination is not easy. All things even this are how we look at it. We are all learning; we all make mistakes. What we do about what we know is important. There is always a tomorrow to try, try again in. We can make change! Change happens however when we see the need to do it. It’s not the answer to feel we are just one person so how can I affect anything! The truth is we can and do.

Have you ever done anything for someone else, small? Medium sized thing? Really big? If you do “something” because you can. Even a smile! It does change things for someone else…

The hardest thing I am trying to understand is when something has hurt someone, has angered someone so deeply ___how do you get to a better place? How do you get past the most horrific thing? I come to this point as this is what keeps people in a place they can’t get out of. I had my own “hole” to climb out of, I spend years on trying to understand what happened to me and my first husband. Knowing it had to do with so many factors. Not getting past anger and hurt. I look at the experience differently now but all of us were affected adversely and we were not the close family we might have been. It was all too complex because we all had our own complex thoughts and beliefs. For example, what I came to believe of my own parents affected my marriage. I spent a lot of time not wanting to be like my parents. Sound familiar? My observing them was a part of my belief which affect me and my first husband. The thoughts I came to believe to be true of him were not the ones I began with. Take a thread and see where it leads your thinking. I came to feel unloved. Why? If I explore what was happening. He was a farmer, he was not home, nor did we do things as young couples can do. I tried not to resent the lack of time. But he did not have control of what happens with cows. A new thought! My interest were being the artist and writer. I got caught up with being a mother and he a father when he had time, a father and husband, Not easy for him he had no time. I was sympathetic and tried hard to understand and be a good partner as a farm wife. The whole thing got beyond both of us. But we became hurt and angry people. The world is full of scenarios. Some of those people are in power, they affect others with their own realities. How to not be so complex? The only things I can think is we need to make the world less complex. Individually not have someone else in charge. We need to care about each other where we are. And let others do the same. Not poo poo things because we think we can do it but so and so can’t…. he or she isn’t able. We need to be less worried about the other guy. If he is wrong or right…. being present with ourselves…. It’s not too simple. Its love, feeling love so we know how to love. What has to happen world destruction before we make a change? Isn’t there people who wish to live well! And allow others what they would have for themselves?