November 5, 2011

What do YOU do to keep the negativity out of your daily life?

I have been looking for another job for quite a while (it seems.)  And given this is the first time I had ever been laid off from a job, I have looked upon this as a positive episode in my life.  And that surprising response has sustained me – until now.

Now, I am not saying I have “crashed” and am ready to take a long walk off of a short pier – no.  It’s just that my level of frustration with how our society has “evolved” creeps into my soul and tears at it more deeply.  And the toll it’s taking on my reserves of good feeling energy is growing.

Look at the evening news – a cacophony of negative images, words, deeds and sounds that erupt from your large, flat-screen in digital stereo surround sound, all in the name of being “informed.”  And, have you ever noticed that when you look at the screen, how much you can lose track of time?  The larger the screen (it seems) the deeper the trance-like state you fall into.  Think of that the next time you sit down in front of the screen – you’ll see what I mean.

Anyway, you are sitting there, in your self-induced video trance, being bombarded by messages to “do this,” “buy this,” “go there,” “vote for me,” etc.  That’s called marketing.  And so, you end your day with mental pictures of death, war, poverty, confrontation, starvation, American Idol…you name it.  No wonder we are so “down” on things.  We get a head full of that stuff and our own minds take it from there – filling in all of the unknown facts, playing out the worst-case scenarios, whispering unspoken thoughts, and (basically) lying to us.

THAT is what has been sapping my positive resources – the constant flow of drivel put out by corporate “people” who don’t care one whit about me or my well-being, that want only my money, my vote…or both.

What kind of society lets that happen?

Comments?  Thoughts?  I’d like to hear them…

“It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity” – Albert Einstein

P.S.

I had more to this post – but when I tried to save the draft, the WordPress software lost it.  It will come back to me, though not in the way I originally wrote it (I was in the groove.)  But, when it does, it will be worthy of sharing with you.