We are in an age of information. Our world is expanding but our lives are shrinking. It seems that the world is full of more problems, more terrible events, more and more crises and developments that require our attention. But more than our attention, they require action. This is where frustration takes over.
The Amazon forest is on fire. This ecological disaster becomes a topic to debate online. Who is responsible? We need to know. But then what?
Children of migrants are being held in camps without their parents.
They have no beds and no medical care. They are overcrowded, with older children caring for toddlers and babies. What do we do?
Every day we are bombarded with our president tweeting ideas that are head-scratching at best and mind-numbing and fear-producing at worst.
Information is shared and argued about or agreed upon.
Everyone has a different opinion that they are willing to share. Over and over. A recession is on its way; the market is collapsing; Social Security is being threatened; the elderly are starving; veterans are homeless and in need of medical care; stricter gun laws are needed or not; another school, mall, nightclub shooting has occurred.
The Arctic has record high temperatures; the ice caps are melting; the oceans are full of plastic; sex trafficking is rampant; children are missing; women are murdered by their spouses and boyfriends at an epidemic rate; women and girls are raped and rapists are let go.
The weather is out of control. Earthquakes in Kansas, flooding everywhere, record high temperatures; crops are failing.
Tariffs and big government are killing the family farm. Feedlots are killing the environment; no, theyre not. Be a vegan. Go Keto. Plexus is the way to health. People are dying because they cant afford insulin or treatment for cancer. There is a health-care crisis; the streets are crowded with homeless people; mental health care is too costly. Prisons are corrupt; the government is corrupt; politicians are corrupt. Corruption is everywhere. Or not. We can argue and defend our positions from sunup to sundown. Nothing changes. Except ourselves.
I read the list of things written above to Georgia to make sure I hadnt left anything out. Her reply? Thanks for ruining my day.
THESE THINGS are happening. But they arent the only things that are happening. There are children laughing and families having dinner together. Birthday celebrations and people falling in love. New babies coming into loving families, and families celebrating the lives of those that they love dearly.
The fear that we feel has a tendency to make us withdraw from our world.
Action is the biggest fear-killer.
