The Problem

With so many problems, challenges and conflicts in our daily lives we are infinitely attempting to identify the problem. This one you can take to the bank - the problem is always in the people or the person. There is no such thing as an external problem. It always lies within. No other species on the planet takes without giving back in some way. We do, and we're oblivious to our effect on the balance. The only thing that can change this trend is to change our decisions to have more respect for each other, life, and recognizing that we have to find a way to give back to the cycle of life.

My prediction is that we won't change. Many think that human beings are the greatest thing to ever set foot on the earth. My thought is the opposite - we are the worst and will be the demise of not just our own kind, but virtually every living thing on the earth. Simply put - we don't think we are the problem, we don't understand our impact, and we are too arrogant in general to anticipate there may be consequences to thoughtlessness. If you can't be thankful for what you have, you lack a prerequisite to ensuring its continuation. We tend not to value that which we don't work for on our own in some way, and value prompts thankfulness.

We no longer work for our food, for our shelter, for heat, for clothing, for tools. All of it is mass produced by someone else for our benefit. And because we don't know what is being sacrified for our comfort and survival, we have no chance of contributing to a cycle that renews all of those resources. In a word, we are pretty much doomed. People are the only problem creating that end, and certainly they are the only species that can do something to change it.

Nothingness

Since I have no particular issue in mind today I decided that "nothingness" is an appropriate title. Nothingness in one form is merely a convoluted mixture of everything within one's grasp at any given point in time. Similar to not seeing forest for the trees. There are just too many things going on in the mind to focus on any one thing.

It is not such a bad condition to be in, as long as some kind of incubation process is going on while in such a state. Sometimes there is simply too much information being processed to take much of an action anything.

Anyway, that's where I am today. Been here for a week or so. Somehow, I think I have taken more action in between my states of nothingness during this week than I have in the last six months. The paradox never ends.