Why Is It...?

who, who, who said I was happy Me and the Dali Lama?? You think maybe we were separated at birth?

 

I think this one is all about people becoming more and more self-centered. The other thing is unforgiveness and where I get that is if a person is treated badly, long enough, they may think some sort of payback is due them. I do think for myself it's better for me to look for the good in people. Some you would have to dig deep, but I like to think most people have that good in them.

I'm in complaint mode quite often around here, or I feel like complaining. All I get out of it is a freakin headache though so I want try to learn how to live with it. That is, if I can't afford to go live in the mountains but then a Grizzly might eat me smelly bear, nice smelly bear, look hardly any meat on me at all

 

I always try to remember that I don't have to outrun the bear.

 

Denise, as for myself, unlike my wife many times, I think more "reality" concerning people, not what I wished they'd be like. Many people do have "good" in them, but definitely not everyone. When we see an apartment neighbor completely ignoring any warning e-mail from an apartment manager or thinking "for as much as I pay for this apartment, I will do whatever I want to" attitude, doesn't cut it with me. One apartment manager told me "most new residents don't even look at the Rental/Leasing Agreement and basically do what they want to". I truly believe that. Many young folks on freeways think the same way, as in "get out of my way, old man" as they speed recklessly by me.

Of course, me being former military, I found out very, very fast that any military service doesn't take "I'm sorry" or any other bad behavior very well, if at all. After all of these years, I still have at least some military/Navy in me, meaning the discipline that I encountered.

 

If I had big bazoombas I sure wouldn't be showing them to any bears. I've never understood the pushup thing, to me that's just false advertising

 

It is the shame of mankind the way humans behave at times, maybe all the time, but I think I mentioned before, I can make myself sick thinking about the "wrongs" in this world. I don't mind talking about them with others like yourself that feel the same way I do. As I get older, I really am starting to feel sort of invisible, or like I don't count. I doubt there's an elderly person that doesn't feel this way at some time. Not everyone is in the same frame of mind, or mood, at the same time.

 

Maybe not but my guess he doesn't mind big bazoombas!

 

I never thought much about this before, but one thing is past generations were raised in a different world you might say. I think my group was literally the last that grew up play outside, no phone, no laptops, etc. I remember when I first heard of a child divorcing his parents and I have to admit I thought it was kind of cool but I was much younger then and didn't think so much about a young child having that sort of power.

Anyway, kids, at least the kind of kid I was, want to be free of parental guidance. We thought we were grown up way before we were. After I got out in the world making my own living, I slowly but surely began to understand my grandparents, and parent much better. Now I really understand what it was like for them to get old, and still feel so young inside Any wisdom we do gain could have served us better when we were young, at least for me anyway I should say.

I can tell you I would have spent wayyyyy more time with my gramma and gramps, I was about 7th grade, maybe, when they died, 1 year apart. And I was so busy discovering boys, I had no time for them I wish I had a do-over many times but know that's no way possible.

 

There are no answers for why people do what they do or how we feel at times.
We’re not the 1st or 2nd or even the 10th generation who ask the same questions for indeed, the same problems and variations of those problems have plagued mankind from the beginning.

In other words, we’re not special.

The book of Ecclesiastes tells us that there is “nothing new under the sun” so how people are now is the same as they were a few thousand years ago.
My goodness, one of the reasons the 10 Commandments came into existence is because people lied, cheated, committed thievery, did dishonor to themselves and their parents, messed around with the neighbor’s wife, etc. so again, we’re nothing really special.

Do I wish it would change? Sure.
Can it? It can.
Will it? It will.
When? Your guess is as good as mine for even the angels know not the day nor the time.

 

hey, speak for yourself @Bobby Cole, I'm special!