Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes and the grass grows all by itself.- Zen poet Matsuo Basho
Aesop has a must-read post (riffing off of Francis Porretto) about refusing to pay attention to the panic porn:
UN. PLUG.
You'll add years to your life, and you won't spend most of them in abject fear and dread.
And so here's a Sunday Classical piece to help you unplug. Relax. The world will be here tomorrow but today the grass grows all by itself.
I also like the picture Aesop has. It says this:
turn off the news.go outside.breathe.you were never meant to carry the burden of the entire world.
The grass grows by itself. It's said that plants grow better when you play music for them. So turn up the music.
And make peace with yourself,
'Cause in the end there's nobody else
Have a great Sunday. The World will be here tomorrow and tomorrow is time enough for that.
I think that is exactly the problem western civ has going on. Go outside and play, pop a beer and sit on the couch, turn on the sportzball.Go shopping at the mall... Your kids can' find jobs, buy homes or start families. Third world illiterate human trash is swarming in by the millions, taking their jobs and crashing the social programs. You've got one active war raging with a former world super power costing you 700 billion dollars a week, your proxies are losing, and your military is falling apart at the seems due to diversity, degeneracy and all the other crap that goes along with woke politics. We are in even worse shape up in Canada. Your president is a literally a pedo, and out prime minister is literally a clown.
ReplyDeleteI suppose if your money and community insulates you from all that... go smell the flowers I guess. But alot of us are in very, very deep trouble and it's going to get far worse, very fast if things keep going the way they are...
Thinking of Chris from A Large Regular and the picture he posted of the Butterfly Galaxy from the Hubble telescope and realizing we are not even a dot in a picture, not even a pixel. It helps with perspective sometimes.
ReplyDeleteBut alot of us are in very, very deep trouble and it's going to get far worse, very fast if things keep going the way they are...
ReplyDeleteTrue,, and I'm not seeing anything that can be done to turn things away from the obvious trajectory. Those who would are attacked and destroyed by the rabid morons who call being on time to work is white supremacist behavior. Actually, they just call it Rayciss because supremacist is so hard to say that just using the word is itself a white supremacist construct.
Yeah, too bad it's all not just panic porn, it's all too real. And since the really bad shit continues to be not hidden ( we see it, most don't ), my time spent on the 'net is way up from those halcyon days of yore, because mining for the "truth" is time consuming. When you cannot trust much, nuggets have to be found, checked, re-checked, ad infinitum.
ReplyDeleteSo I think the message trying to be conveyed is attempting to strike a balance with YOLO. I myself set time limits each day, kind of, and make sure I pursue the good things in life cuz yeah this is our one shot here on the globe.
Balance in all things.
ReplyDeleteWhen you're ready for music to extend your middle finger, Irish has found a real corker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_T54wg9KI
Oh look! A colorized and horizontal player-piano roll - just like I used to watch as a kid...
ReplyDeleteThere's a God in Heaven who holds the entire universe in the palm of His mighty right hand. Keep your eyes on Him instead of Yahoo! News.
ReplyDeleteLots of classical music on my phone. A college class got me interested in it Ennio Morricone and Pachelbel are two of my favorites. Wagner for obvious reasons.
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