Why bother blogging?
I've just finished reading the news of the day and most of it is gloomy. Buying into the doom and gloom doesn't help anyone. You just become part of the problem instead of part of the solution.
I was just reading those two gloomy articles that I posted and I wondered if I should have bothered. Everyone could have read them in their original form elsewhere. The only thing that I added to them were little snippets of my own opinions and opinions are cheap. Most of the time I am not particularly pleased with my blogging. Anyone can bloviate. The only time I feel as if I've added anything to the discussion is when I write my own stuff and then only if that stuff is cheerful and optimistic. If opinions are cheap, then pessimistic opinions must be dirt cheap.
Okay, so you have to be aware of the problems before you can do anything to fix them but it's not like I haven't known what the problems are. I've known for years and the problems have been the same for years. So why bother to keep on focusing on the problems? Actually, I try not to do so. Living out here in the boonies, isolates me from most of the horriblenesses of the 21st century and I don't really think about them most of the time - until I read the news.
When I was an angry young man - fired up about the injustices of the world - my Mom used to say to me: "Remember that Jesus said not to fight evil but concentrate on the good."
I would say to her: "How can you ignore it when you know that it's wrong and want to change it?"
She would answer: "If you focus on the beauty in life, then you will be happy. When you're happy, you can add something and give love. When you're miserable, you are useless and can't help anyone."
It took me years to realize that she was right. Now, I think I'll look for some pretty pics to post.
I was just reading those two gloomy articles that I posted and I wondered if I should have bothered. Everyone could have read them in their original form elsewhere. The only thing that I added to them were little snippets of my own opinions and opinions are cheap. Most of the time I am not particularly pleased with my blogging. Anyone can bloviate. The only time I feel as if I've added anything to the discussion is when I write my own stuff and then only if that stuff is cheerful and optimistic. If opinions are cheap, then pessimistic opinions must be dirt cheap.
Okay, so you have to be aware of the problems before you can do anything to fix them but it's not like I haven't known what the problems are. I've known for years and the problems have been the same for years. So why bother to keep on focusing on the problems? Actually, I try not to do so. Living out here in the boonies, isolates me from most of the horriblenesses of the 21st century and I don't really think about them most of the time - until I read the news.
When I was an angry young man - fired up about the injustices of the world - my Mom used to say to me: "Remember that Jesus said not to fight evil but concentrate on the good."
I would say to her: "How can you ignore it when you know that it's wrong and want to change it?"
She would answer: "If you focus on the beauty in life, then you will be happy. When you're happy, you can add something and give love. When you're miserable, you are useless and can't help anyone."
It took me years to realize that she was right. Now, I think I'll look for some pretty pics to post.
posted by Joubert at 8:35 AM
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