Hiya. Today I sit and contemplate the universe and all the people in it. My thoughts seem to keep coming back to the amount of anger there seems to be in the world these days. From the sands of the Middle East to the streets of Toontown, there seems so much animosity it’s nearly sickening. 
What is the root of all this anger? What is to be gained by such anger? A shorter life span? Is it human nature to be angry all the time? Is this part of our devolution, to help curb our population growth?
I mean really, take a look around you. People getting all pissed off in a store buying gifts for loved ones. People blowing themselves up for no other reason than to cause as many deaths as possible to mostly innocent women and children. What point is there in that kind of crap? NONE!
Everyone seems to be pointing fingers to everyone else for the problems in the world. Why won’t people own up to their own problems without expecting people to bail them out. I guess they call this “Entitlement Syndrome”
At work, recently, we had a class on workplace diversity. They asked some very pointed questions to the group, asked us what things shaped our outlook on those around us, trying to make us aware of the “filters” of our emotional and physical influences, that shape our view of others. That night, I said something that I hadn’t ever thought of, or maybe not even felt until that night.
I said something along the lines of, when you have children your outlook on the world changes totally in an instant. I feel that most parents treat people around them in such a way as to help better the world for their children. Be nice here and there, and maybe that niceness will go around the world a few times and come back to your children. I wonder what the world would be if that were the actual way people acted in the world. And saddens me when I think of the things that would be if NO ONE tried to do that. I know that some feel that way, because of the reactions I got to the statement I made in the class.
What can be done against such carelessness in the feelings of others? I am not sure anyone knows the answer to that. I certainly don’t. I will though continue to try to make someone smile everyday, in some little way, to change the way another person sees the world sometimes, is the best that we can do. If I can only do that by surrounding myself with Toontown Friends, then I will. If these spreaders of ill will are too blind to see the error of their ways we cannot blame them for it, we must just move past them as they are unimportant to our end.
I doubt little if any of this made sense. But I will make a vow to myself again tonight, to treat everyone just a little better tomorrow, and redoubling my determination in loving my wife and children.
This was just my analytical mind spitting out thoughts. Most thoughts form very clearly in my mind, it’s putting them down in writing that’s the hard part. Hope I haven’t scared anyone away from reading my blog, I don’t always post things like this. Just my take on the world for today, as I can barely watch the news any more because of all the anger.