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hmmm
I don't know if I can write this
things have been getting to me lately
unpleasant people serving in shops and doctors refusing to help me
and it gets me down
Ive got a lot to feel down about if I sat and thought about my previous life
or about humanity
and it brings me to wonder why everything is so bad
when I look into history theres lots of people ill
with the plague,
and lots of people being horrible to each other in the name of religion and
money
theres peasants getting ripped off by wealthy people
and slogging their guts out for a pittance
and theres ignorance abounding which is also distasteful
I look into the present,
and theres ignorance abounding and depressed suicide bombers
theres illness and unfairness
and theres friends who are going to die
I look into the future
and theres world war three between Muslims and fakirs (unbelievers)
and it gets me down
but its not true!
I look around and theres badness
because thats what catches a humans eye
we're addicted to badness
its not whats going on at all
in reality theres some bad
a LOT of average
and some good
the bad catches the mind a lot more than the good
and the load of average doesn't get looked at at all!
so we end up thinking things are bad
unless something very good is happening in our lives
then we are cheerful
and the very good is an elusive thing, always yearned
for yet so seldom achieved
because it is very difficult without circumstances helping you out
and the point is, where are heads are is all wrong
its not accurate
its not truthful
were addicted to the bad
in our soap operas on tv we don't want to watch good people having a good
time
what we choose to watch is death and drama and bastards
on the news we don't report whats happy
we report whats sad
simply because whats happy seems completely uninteresting
and boring
not even worthy of note
just like all the average news
which leaves us with the bad
which is a completely inaccurate reporting of what is going on in the world
today
a friend once told me that he had read a philosophy
that said that there is actually more good than “evil” in the
world
if you add all of it up
I don't know the philosopher's name so sadly I can't quote him
if that man is right then we've got a low opinion of people for no reason
I figured out the three wise monkeys tonight
speak no evil, see no evil and hear no evil
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the reason they are so wise is because they don't focus on the bad, and they don't add any extra bad into the world
And so we shouldn't
Stop and think for a moment about something negative about people and how
they've been with you
then think about something neutral
then think about something positive
they're all there, yet we don't lie in our beds thinking about all the neutral
and nice things
we think about the bad or the problems
we are designed to
and this needn't be so
we can adapt
it's what were best at
we can change the relationships between our braincells
break the 'groove' in our brains and form a new one
humanity deserves a break from the human condition!
People had a hard time in the
past
but they didn't spend all day moaning about it
and they wouldn't if they moved here, to the future
(now the past)
where most people reading this online are living in the lap of luxury
sprung beds! pillows!
fridges!
hot and cold running water!
You turn on your computer and you should be blown away you're using something so incredible
you turn the key in your car and you don't have a hard 5 mile walk in all weathers
fuck that somebody else has a better car
YOU ARE NOT WALKING
you can go where you want
And it keeps the rain off
theres lots of reasons to be cheerful
if you're bummed out cos you're at work and you don't want to be
Just think!
you are part of the biggest tidal wave of movement and production
what humans do in humdrum day to day is a frantic avalanche of movement of
materials
reforming and improvement of matter
take the room you are in [I mean this], and each thing
in the room
think where each part of it came from
its from all over and under the Earth
all sorts of places
and it is improved
think of the life of each little part of each little
thing
where its been
how it got to your room
the people that made it happen
and the people who supported those people to make it happen, who made it possible
and the tools they used
the code!
everything and more obviously your computer is an evolution of code!
even every thought in your head
we are getting better and better
all the way from the first stone handaxe
the first word
the first counting to 1
its amazing the power of humanity
that power that comes from everybody
including you
the power of change!
and thats just flipping burgers at Macdonald's
Things arnt perfect Ill grant you
though they're much improved on what they were
theres no reason to feel down unless something horrible's just happened to you or your loved ones
and even that will pass
just let it go
think of all the good things
and the mundane things
train yourself not to focus on the bad simply because it hits your brain harder
its simply not worth it
for you, a precious human, to be upset when things
are so good
just because you haven't noticed
ponder a while on all the little kindnesses you've
had from your loved ones
the joy of having a friend
the brilliance of mankind
and all the improvements each day
bad memories are a waste of time
and need to be let go
(C)opyright Nick.Eliot[at]Cannotfindserver.net 10/07/2006