Warning: This may be a unintelligible block of text at the end but I wanted to write some thoughts.
Howdy folks! Tonight here at work 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 Disney’s Toontown Online, there seems so much animostity 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”
I haven’t been the best at containing my anger all of my life, but within these last 6 or so months, while I don’t always succeed, I have really tried to stand beside myself and see where the anger comes from and try to avoid it all at costs. Sometimes, trying to do anything but be angry is a very hard thing to do, but it is for the best in most any situation.
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 completely. 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. It saddens me when I think of the things that would be if NO ONE tried to do that. I know that there are at least some feel that way I do, because of the reactions I got to the statement I made in the class.
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 tommorow, and redoubling my determination in loving my wife and children.
Just my take on the world for today, as I can barely watch the news anymore because of all the anger shown there.
