There is so much angst in the world right now. It’s like the planet is collectively pissed off! What’s the deal? Mercury isn’t in retrograde, there’s no full moon, no major disaster.
Sure, European economies are floundering like a beached whale without rescuers. I know it’s been a long hot summer in the northern hemisphere and the south is a bit chilly but really? That’s just weather and it will change. The kids have all gone back to school. Routines are back to normal or finding a new normal. It’s all good.
We all need to take a chill pill.
Yes, there’s an election coming (just get it over with, pleeeaassse) and people are passionate about that, which is very important. There’s high unemployment and homeless people and Lord knows there’s other issues I’ve not even thought of or just won’t mention.
There are plenty of problems everywhere I agree but getting pissed off won’t help. Taking sides and pointing fingers doesn’t help. What does help is working together. All sides coming together for the collective good. Whatever the issue. Putting aside your opinions and prejudices and just getting it done can be very satisfying.
There’s always room for civility, manners and being nice. Smiling at someone just because you can is so much better than scowling at them or being pissed off because they got in the supermarket line first. Someone had to be in front. Sometimes it’ll be your time, sometimes it won’t.
Miss Gremlin and Grand Master D tried a social experiment on the weekend, with the help of the Princess. They bought some flowers from the street vendor and started giving them to random people in the street. The reactions were quite fascinating. Some people were pissed off, how you get pissed off at a kid wanting to GIVE you a flower is beyond me but that was a reaction. Some just said ‘no’ politely and some thought is was lovely and were genuinely surprised and flattered to receive a gift for nothing and THAT is what I’m talking about. Giving something for nothing, smiling at the person in line, helping people for no reason, volunteering. It’s all positive and good and we need to start changing our grumpy ass attitudes and start being nice to each other.
When you’re pissed off with everything you get that back. Have you ever noticed the attitude you put out is often the attitude you get back? Strange, huh! No matter how badly off you feel or how hard it all is, someone out there is way worse. We need to remember that.
Things are pretty good really when you analyse it, we all woke up today. Hopefully we managed to have food to eat and coffee to drink. If we’re having a good day, someone kissed us and told us they loved us and to ‘have a good day’.
We’re on the internet so it can’t be all bad right?
Things will get better, they always do. The universe is cyclic, opposites attract, what goes up must come down, every cloud has a silver lining…. blah, blah, blah but honestly if we all just make a conscious effort to be happy, friendly and smile our little corner of the planet will feel better to live in and things will improve.
Or they’ll just fall in a big, screaming heap…………… either way, the chill pills have kicked in by now and nobody cares 🙂
