Sunday 4 February 2018

Optimistic but realistic

I love to travel, to learn, to try to be kind...do you?  Try to be kind?  Is that an uppermost goal in anyone's mind anymore?  I've learned stressful events, whether personal or political, bring out the "true colours" in people.  We can see true nature of humankind...or human-mean through these stressful events.  We see illusions of human nature most of the time.  In happy times we can act our best when basic primal instincts to survive are not triggered.

I like to be happy- we all do.  It's natural.  In order to lessen stress on our bodies and minds we must learn more about our natural world.  Who are we and why are we here?  So much more can be learned if we open our minds and explore the imagination.  Einstein said something like "imagination is more important than knowledge" but I want to take that brilliant statement to a different level.  I'd like to say good imaginations are more important than traditional education, but bad imaginations can ruin the world.  Imaginations are either good or bad.  That's all we need to know for a start.

I have a good imagination.  I seek out others who feel the same way.  How can we help?  How can we learn more about important clues of our world?  It's not about waste, money, production, pollution, lying to ourselves, synthetic drugs, pushing our agendas, ignoring poverty and hunger, cruelty to anything.

Do no harm.  It will come back at you threefold.  We need to find the truth and beauty of our existence.  Starting now.