The news is so confusing to me. Charlie Rose interviews the guru of Google and other vast companies and on the other hand we see on the news that olympians are being asked to leave for messages left on Twitter. Where are we going with this? How do we handle this with care? It is the information age and everyone wants to know everyone else’s business and we just cannot stop telling everybody what we know, what we feel, what should happen and what has happened.
So, here I am my friends, writing to you in the same medium.
WHAT IS TO BECOME OF US?!?!?!??!
Alexander Pope wrote, “Be silent always when you doubt your sense.”
How do we have the good sense to doubt our sense?
Society has pushed the limits regarding human achievement and we prize it more than character. We applaud the best grades; we applaud the fastest runner, the fastest swimmer and the best gymnast; we create such a frenzy of FIRST and ONLY FIRST that we in the process forget that second and third place worked just as hard. It was just a day when all was not in sync. We praise with sheer abandon the WINNERS and as we have seen recently, those individuals who gave everything they had for so long , because their day was not 100%, we say sorry, you are no longer needed.
We lash out in a moment where we lost control of ourselves and the self that we deny takes over. Job asks the question ,”How forcible are right words?”
So what are right words?
Dickens tells us, “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profund secret and mystery to every other.” We don’t want mystery anymore do we? We want to say what we please, to whomever we please, whenever we please and the consequences are unimportant. It is so easy to turn on the computer, access the websites and go to it with sheer abandon, no cares, no worries. Without thought, we damage people; With thought, we deliberately hurt people. How powerful are we in our own minds that we feel that WE are in charge and everyone must step aside to bow to our wishes and words.
In your everyday lives, do you act with thought or without thought? Lord Tennyson wrote, “But teach high thought, and amiable words and courtliness, and the desire of fame, and love of truth, and all that makes a man.” We have forgot high thoughts within ourselves and substituted in its place unclean thoughts directed to others.
Our computer age is not for degredation but for reconciliation. Our age is one of thought, planning, action, follow through and results. So what have we learned during this process? Hopefully, we will sit back quietly and contemplate the goodness within and how to use it for the good of everyone.
The next time you feel like you have something to say, go to Word and on the blank page write down your thoughts and emotions, no holds barred, and spell out what you are thinking at that precise moment. Put down on paper the best and worst of thoughts and continue until you can write no more. Cleanse your soul of that self you deny and then put it aside. When you arise the next morning, read what you have written and either discard it immediately or rewrite to praise, not destroy.
” Emerson tells us that nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ”
My wish is for peace in your being and as you learn to be a servant, the enemy within will disappear and your life will be full. Psalm 69:15-18….Do not let the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the Pit close its mouth over me. Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me. Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress – make haste to answer me. Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies.
Twitter thoughts of Thanksgiving.
Now, that really is a story for another day.
Blessings.