It’s Saturday morning and we are busy cleaning our apartment. I start off enthusiastically and energetically, full of hope I will be done in an hour. Two and a half hours later I’m tired, frustrated and angry at the whole world, especially my kids. I’m yelling at them that for the hours I have to spend picking up their toys, for the fact that nothing is in its place, that they don’t listen to me when I ask them to clean up after every play. I see apprehension and fear in their eyes. Doesn’t feel good.
OK, so let’s stop the insanity for a minute (like right now) and go beyond the superficial objects of my anger and frustration. What am I really angry at? What is sipping my energy in this particular situation? TOO MANY THINGS WE HAVE! Kids have too many toys, I have too much stuff. Not only that, we are constantly busy with using too many of them. Boys have their Lego projects, cars, books, and other 100 toys all laying around because “Mom, I haven’t finished playing with it”, I have 10 business projects, knitting projects, yantra drawing projects, cooking projects, and many others all laying around waiting to be finished. Let’s not forget about 12 books I have on my nightstand, all being read and unfinished.
I really think we (and I mean our global village) are addicted to stuff, projects, doing too much, buying too much, owning too many things, taking in too much information. Insanity I’m so tired if. There has to be another way. I don’t know how, but I am determined to look for it today. I’ll keep you posted.
Lots of love. Any wise word on the subject would be greatly appreciated.
M
I think you are very right, too much of everything in our global village. I came to the conclusion of too many things a long time ago, having problems with keeping the order in the apartment. What about regulations, laws etc ? Especially in the EU? Much too many…
I also think (and wonder what is your opinion) there are too many people in our global village and still growing…..And even too much food in rich countries, food that frequently will be throwed out while there are hundrets of millions that are always hungry. It is very frustraing. And also there are not enough jobs for all there people. Tell me what you think please and don’t stop your blog.
Thanks for your comment. Do you think there are too many people? Maybe if we utilized our planet more responsibly, the” too many people” wouldn’t be a problem. Yes, very upsetting that so many people go hungry, the latest count was over 900 million. So what do we do about it?