Today I am missing real connection. As the thought crosses my awareness, I’m astonished to consider that maybe I haven’t really had such a feeling or experience since I was maybe three or four years old.
So, what happened?
Category: Journal Entries
thoughts, ponderings, experiences and lessons learned. or, something deep and life-changing.
In 2021, in order to discern any useful, truthful information, one needs to be critical of nearly every source, but can safely ignore the faces and falsities of well-paid experts and drama pushers you’d see regularly, daily in mass media. They are lying with reckless abandon, so no matter what is being presented, know it isn’t likely to be true.
If nothing else, events of recent months and years have shown us to be rather fragile of mind, spirit, spine and character. But, maybe it’s not that simple.
I’ve tried far too often over the years to avoid pain. All it ever did was double the intensity or duration of the inevitable. Instead…
The stories we live by in a society, and as a civilization, are a cross-pollination of narratives, derived from age-old belief systems, traditions, rituals, religions and literature, tempered and adapted organically by modern epistemology, pedagogy, philosophy, cultural context and the purely experiential. There’s an inherent, and perhaps predictable narrowing, or reduction, of the “allowable” within these structures. And because of an inevitable tendency toward identity and ideology, our struggles individually and socially arise as and when this unconscious mechanism is either unwittingly or deliberately used against us.