When I was a child, or even a much younger person, I believed in a world that was filled with magic and good things. It was a world far removed from the one that we find ourselves living in now. My parents did a very good job of protecting me from feeling or seeing the evils that exist. To be honest, I was an adult before I even knew that there had been a Cuban Missile Crisis and I grew up with a father who had been in the Canadian Armed Forces!
Oh, I knew all about not talking to strangers, and not taking candy from strangers because my parents had told me not to, but I didn't know exactly why I couldn't or shouldn't do those things.
I knew nothing about the "Cold War." Oh we played a game at school which involved hiding under our desks, but I hadn't a clue why that was.
I believed in and was encouraged to believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. I believed in God and Jesus and the Government. I respected authority and I respected the rights and belief's of others. That was what my parents taught me to do, and how they taught me to live.
Life itself taught me other lessons. Out in the larger world I learned that people were not always kind or good. I learned that Governments were not always to be trusted. I learned many things that were in deep contrast to what my parents had taught me and how they had taught me to behave and to believe, but thankfully the lessons they had taught me and the way they had taught me to live created for me a safe haven and a place that I could safely return to when I felt the need to. They had taught me how to make my home a castle and a sacred place that could be safe from the world.
With every day that passes I see more and more that we are living in a truly broken world, and this has nothing at all to do with the Corona Virus. People have a really screwed up vision of what is important and who is important. People have become quite selfish and largely lacking in concern about how their actions might impact others. This is very evident in some people's unwillingness to stay at home when asked or even to wear a face mask for the greater good. (And yes that is about the Corona Virus.)
I have lost my faith in politics and in polititians. I don't believe that most people go into politics as corrupt individuals, but I believe that power corrupts many individuals, especially those who are weak and lacking in standards and morals to begin with. Where are the real leaders?
And the more I see that is happening in the outside world, the more I want to escape to my inside world where I have created a safe haven that can hopefully protect me from what's outside its protective shell. And even then I know that I am not truly safe. At best all I can do is to protect my own values, and hope that is enough.
But I do despair for the children of today. I am dismayed when I see pre-teen girls pouting and posing in front of cameras, looking to validate themselves by relying for the most part on the opinions of others. Who are turning their lives into popularity contests as if that is the only thing that truly matters. I am just as dismayed when I see young boys who validate themselves in much the same way. Where are their heroes? Who are their heroes?
I am dismayed when I see parents using their children as beacons for popularity, riding into the future on the coat-tails of their cuteness or precociousness (sp). The modern day equivalent of the "Stage Mother" who wanted their child to be the next Shirley Temple. Stealing their childhoods away. And for what???
I grew up in a world where children wanted to become nurses and doctors and teachers and astronauts, etc. not vloggers and influencers. We wanted success and happiness of course, but we believed that the best way we could get that was by working and training for it. I remember being taught that nothing worth having came easy or was simply handed to us. I like to think, to hope . . . that I taught those same values to my own children.
A lot of today's children just want to be . . . rich and famous, and they don't care what for. To be on the Ellen Show. To win $500 on American's funniest home videos, etc.
Something is missing and it is deeply disturbing.
There are many things that I don't like in this world. I think it creates unhappy people with unrealistic expectations of what life actually owes them. People with an unrealistic sense of entitlement, being governed in many cases by people who are likewise minded and self-serving.
Oh that is not everyone I know. There are plenty who want to peacefully save the planet. Plenty who still want to become teachers and nurses and doctors, who are truly interested in the greater good of mankind. Plenty of people who do good every day and who server others. My hope lies in them and I pray daily that their voices won't be drowned beneath the selfish voices of the others.
I blame the Kardashians. And weak leadership. And too much cake.
A thought to carry with you . . .
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I hope you have a beautiful day. Thanks so much for all of your love and support. You truly are angels on earth without wings. Don't forget!