Amazed

April 1st, 2009

There are so many amazing things in the world, it’s amazing to me that humans have invented boredom. It’s also amazing to me that with as big as the world is, and as many people as there are, we can get caught up so easily in small, petty, self-contained little worlds. We can spend valuable time and energy on hate. We can devote time to destroying people’s lives, to plotting, planning, and working on ruining them. I know people who do this. I think we’ve probably all done it at some point. I have done this in the past-fortunately,  I’ve learned my lesson-that’s never the way to go. But I was musing on it today, when I was thinking of a sweet sweet friend of mine who has been forced to deal with people who have seriously devoted themselves to trying to make her life difficult. It’s just so pointless.  It would be so much easier to get on the phone and say “Hey, this is what would work for us, what about you?” It never happens that way for her.

Amazed.

But I really shouldn’t be. This is partly why we have attorneys. This is partly why we have counselors and therapists.  I’m just having one of those introspective times where I’m thinking about how I’m having a really hard time right now, but compared to people who are starving, or people who are dealing with a death, or an addiction, or who are missing limbs because they were the 3rd child of a couple in China-it kinda puts it in perspective a little.

I’m no Mother Theresa, but I try to be kind. I wish deep in my heart that people would be kinder to each other. I think all hate comes from a place of pain and suffering-but instead of saying that, people get angry instead.

This is Kelly in her Biosuit on Spaceship Earth-wishing…everyone who reads this will do something kind for no particular reason today. Please, and Thank You.