Build it up, tear it down
Do we cut back or continue to spend? Do we slow down or carry on as normal? Do we take a stand or watch as chaos ensues?
Between food, lifestyles, crimes, credit crunches, fuel prices, high speed driving and on some occasions common sense stuck in reverse. Is the world going mad or is it just me?
Well the world probably is mad, a place that has to house over 6 billion people was always going to be.
Some days it seems like a place that makes you wonder how was something incredible created so easily and on other days you wonder how that beauty has slipped out from under us and changed to something that is ugly and inhumane.
We are strange in that we can go from cherishing something one minute to want to destroy something else the next. We build up leaders, celebrities and our “stars” to such an unattainable level, and then try to pull them back down again.
And for what? Truthfully I really do not know. This is just something that has come to mind with no plan as to what direction this blog is taking (some would say I don’t really have direction in most of the blogs I write anyway)
So I’ll finish with this and I guess I want to provoke some different opinions. My question is why do we try to destroy in minutes, what it can take a lifetime to create?
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 and is filed under Thoughts & Questions, Views on News.
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Ann Says:
Many of the questions you ask here, Mike, are asked by many I would guess each day- especially after a read of the papers or on hearing the lunchtime news.
What’s the world coming to? That question is as old as the hills and yet each new generation is faced with many threats to livelihood and personal safety as well as the many global concerns you have continually written about here on this blog.
None of us can change the world but enough of us can and will make a difference by raising issues and speaking out about our concerns, our anxieties, our hopes and fears for the future.
I as a believer place trust in God and hope and pray for a better world for ourselves and for our children.
There are many practical ways we can help to, and charitable acts can act like little beacons of light assertively declaring the presence of God and goodness in spite of so many despairing headlines.
There are many who do seem bent on destruction, but less well publicized are the very many who every day do good.
Of course the news has to be reported, we would be failing in justice and love were we to close ourselves off from it, but why not make a point of seeking some good news stories - or better still making them!
Keep on writing, Mike, and keep on raising all those issues we’d rather not have to think about.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:35 pm