The burning question is are we all being subtly controlled....the majority of people work 9 to 5 in jobs they don't like all their lives and would never dream of doing any different. Is this how it should be?
I'm not suggesting that we all drop out, laze around and start taking drugs, far from it - but what would happen if more of us did things that we really wanted to do? Not the romantic what the media has brainwashed us into thinking we would do if we didn't work i.e. travel the world, ride in hot air balloons, eat in fancy restaurants and laze around.... more like make art, films, music, work in 3rd world countries, write books or plays whatever.....
Who exactly is it who controls us and stops us questioning and following our dreams is it ourselves? society? media? government? aliens? god? Just who is controlling who?
Sometimes it feels like we are all being subtly brainwashed, we have computers and tvs that are turning us slowly into vegetables. We are being de-politicised, we find it hard to think for ourselves, we have lost faith in love - and I don't mean the crappy tinseltown version of love we are fed in the movies - but real nitty gritty everyday love. Love for your fellow man (or woman), love for your kids, love of your partner (you know the one you would die for), love of life, planet earth and all who sail in her....
Who am I kidding.....pass me some prozac and I'll go get a job in Sainsburys.....
Monday, December 13, 2004
Monday, December 06, 2004
Suicide and love....
I have been thinking a lot about suicide and why people do it....a friend told me that someone she knew had and it was the second this year....
I must confess that I have contemplated it briefly in the past in the depths of depression....but somehow it seems too selfish...it's like you are punishing those left behind...and I would certainly never do it now I have a child, they would spend the rest of their lives thinking that it was there fault.
It's sad that in the UK suicide rates are higher than ever before, and so the papers tell us rage incidents are rising - is it a byproduct of this speedy, goal orientated age we live in? Is it because all those mobile phones are frying our brains?? Is it all the talk of war, diaster and killing. Is it all those movies and games that are so violent - or is it that movies portray a fantasy romantic world that for most of us bears no resemblance to real life.
We are told that we are lucky, we have never had it so good, certainly we own more stuff than ever before...but are we really better off, sometimes I wonder. Most of us have lost touch with the ordinary function of living, we are so busy playing computer games, eating tv dinners and rushing around that we forget the basics. Food grows in the ground, we breathe air, we need love to survive as well as all the gadgets and consumer products. We need to get back in touch with the planet somehow...quick get me away from this computer!!!
Someone once told me that to be a good healer you have to be able to both give and receive love and I think that that is true. I hope that love comes through in my reflexology treatments.
I must confess that I have contemplated it briefly in the past in the depths of depression....but somehow it seems too selfish...it's like you are punishing those left behind...and I would certainly never do it now I have a child, they would spend the rest of their lives thinking that it was there fault.
It's sad that in the UK suicide rates are higher than ever before, and so the papers tell us rage incidents are rising - is it a byproduct of this speedy, goal orientated age we live in? Is it because all those mobile phones are frying our brains?? Is it all the talk of war, diaster and killing. Is it all those movies and games that are so violent - or is it that movies portray a fantasy romantic world that for most of us bears no resemblance to real life.
We are told that we are lucky, we have never had it so good, certainly we own more stuff than ever before...but are we really better off, sometimes I wonder. Most of us have lost touch with the ordinary function of living, we are so busy playing computer games, eating tv dinners and rushing around that we forget the basics. Food grows in the ground, we breathe air, we need love to survive as well as all the gadgets and consumer products. We need to get back in touch with the planet somehow...quick get me away from this computer!!!
Someone once told me that to be a good healer you have to be able to both give and receive love and I think that that is true. I hope that love comes through in my reflexology treatments.
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