We have a problem: we don't get dressed up anymore, we don't cry as much, and we don't really think about things anymore. In short, we are lacking the feeling and connection in life that used to run rampant over the earth.
Perhaps it is one of the side-effects of this age of technology we live in that has taken some of the simple joys out of life. There used to be a build of anticipation waiting for a letter to arrive by mail, a disappointment when it didn't come, and then a genuine smile no one could take away when it finally came. There used to be family games with everyone sitting around a table or on the floor playing without malicious competition. People used to get excited to watch others display their talents and it didn't matter how good anyone was, it was the company that was enjoyed.
But today we have movies and video games and instant gratification everywhere in our lives. (Again, I must make a frequent disclaimer that most of technology is not inherently bad and is in fact quite useful and wonderful, but it is the over and misuse of this technology that steals away the life from our lives.) We fill our lives with ways to disconnect from the world so much so that we have lost feeling for things that really should matter. We hear about death and destruction and hardly think twice about it; our best friend/sister/etc. just got their pilot's license and all we can manage is a half-hearted "congrats." We can do better than that. I know we can.
There is grief and sadness everywhere at any given time and there is also happiness and deep feeling happening everywhere at any given time. We need to slow down and really think about things. We need to think twice before saying/doing things that might cause hurt, and we need to think outside of ourselves into how what we do and say affects those around us.
Slow down. Take a minute to really think about things, not simply let things gloss over a shield of apathy. Enjoy the happy moments and remember the sad just enough to savor the dichotomy. Let's prove to the world that we have some feeling left. :)
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"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth!" "Very good. Then the whole world will be blind and toothless." --Fiddler on the Roof
"No one will listen." "Huh? I'm sorry did you say something?" --Mulan
"The words tell you what to think, the music tells you what to feel."
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold." --Zelda Fitzgerald
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Today's Featured Quote:
"It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered; full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those are the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand. i know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going, because they were holding on to something."
"What are we holding onto Sam?"
"That there is some good in this world Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
--Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers
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