BECOMING WHOLE AGAIN

It's almost a fad to talk about a "oneness" of life, becoming stable for some is a fantasy, yet mental health is the biggest problem area in the West. Much of it is not in fact an illness as such it is a condition that is self induced because individuals literally 'let go' of life and opt for others or someone else or whatever it is they deem as a higher entity to fight their battles or live life as an adjunct for themselves. They seek to following devised stories and hyped glamour and rancid reporting by low life journalists, they seek to follow the ups and downs of celebrities that live partly in rehab clinics and have regular therapy sessions to keep themselves afloat. The single nearly always fare worse than those who have stable relationships, and by that it's usually "married" relationships not just two people shacking up together. There is something about a person who has been or is married that has a degree of stability that others rarely have, even if the relationship didn't work out. Stability can affect many gay people as their relationships are predominantly transient, and for those who are single throughout (gay or straight) age often makes them become 'precious' or very much introverted in their overall thoughts, not exclusively but overall. There is something that saying "I do" to each other in front of witnesses as a base for a life together that gives many an inner tranquil 'meaning' and "understanding" and 'confidence' that other just don't experience at all, regardless of any ultimate outcome.

However, being whole and enjoying a 'oneness' in life can be very real for everybody, married, single, gay, straight and anything else that comes into the scenario of life today. Hollowness and shallowness are self caused, as is the "me" factor, where everything is about the self. There is a massive difference between looking after yourself and being selfish, the problem is when you don't know the difference and life revolves around self induced likes and dislikes and habits and routines because there is only you in your life. Cossetting yourself becomes for some a way of life and a norm and it gets worse as one gets older until one can actually turn into a cranky old person and lose out terribly on events in life. Singles clubs, relationship clubs, dating sites on the net (comes under the gaming section now not relationships), etc are all there to get your hard earned cash and just possibly find a mate or rarely a friend, and if you you are not particularly fussy lots of sex too. Whatever action you indulge in has a repercussion that matures with age and can bring into force mental unrest plus jaundiced and sceptical thoughts based on you indulging in a shallowness of life. Where others become particularly nasty or bad you throw judgment at, yet half the problem of your own rhetoric is you. Remember if you are the result of many failed relationships or friendships you are the common denominator not the other person or people.Your failures are a result of something you didn't get right, not everyone else, even if it's just bad judgment.

Stability is a badge of identity of whom you are, it's how you see life, it has to be no one else can see life through your eyes. How you interact with life, people, situations, how caring and generous you may be not necessarily financially but of yourself, knowledge, time, listening, befriending etc, it all forms a picture that identifies you as a person. Being judgmental and arrogant brings about a surly, tetchy and embittered future where upset and coarse conversations keep on making life worse as one then finds that peace in life is not within as you've just sold out to bad taste and sarcasm and short tempered bouts of anger. Self ego worship, having "nice" people around you is fine, but like anything else in life it is a quality not quantity thing. The universal antidote to everything negative is 'love', where love is happiness reigns, where love is not present anything that can happen that is bad and fair game for disharmony, very few escape that void even if they think they know about love - it's usually a mechanically controlled financially volatile entity nothing more, it's that pathetic. Keeping our own council is par for the course of self enlightenment, seeing others and life for what it is but not getting embroiled in the detritus of it all, not getting sucked in and dragged down by the thoughts of others which is of little meaning and divisive in context. So many are paying the price for going astray "just because they could" which sidles away from correct thought and the "all about me" syndrome of having to have others of a particular vein in your life to make yourself feel better.

Like everything in life there's a stop point, a point at which what we did or are doing comes to a close, either by design or default, it matters not. Living the best we can regardless of the trappings around us is paramount as that brings in the best inner feelings one can ever get, a feeling of inner contentment and that quenched feeling in the pit of your stomach that all is definitely well, even when it at times isn't. Of course the notion of good takes courage as it means at times letting go of mind constructs and years of lecherous thoughts over "life candy" as a substitute for real empathy with humanity, old habits die hard and are at times mild forms of addiction, where one "has to" do it just to feel good. People with real love attract like minded souls, all else is a fabricated and devised thought which is transient and here lies the problem at where we started, mental stability.

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THE OYSTER EFFECT

The little bit of grit or sand in an oyster, that minute irritant produces after a time something that is forever precious, the peal, long since valued the world over as a decoration and adornment for the body. Many an artist, creator, developer, designer, scientist, etc, have within them that little bit of grit, something that eternally is there that provides the substance for them to want to continue onwards towards a deree of excellence, perfection or just completion of what they are doing. It's that eternal thorn that gets us to overcome obstacles, and turn the seemingly large boulders in front of us into stepping stones for a way forward. The difference between those that go forward and those that stagnate is purely 'mind perception', our minds control our entire lives, yet to speak to some one wouldn't have thought so. Our minds are where we live, they are our permanent home to ourselves a home which contains the past, the present we are living and the future where we will be every second of our lives, as time marches onwards our mind records it all in detail even if we can't at times recall some of the events. Our mind concurrently not only records time dates it controls how we live, our heart our breathing our functionality, it is our best friend and shouldn't be abused. We wouldn't abuse our lap top knowing full well it would crash or stop working yet do we ever feel the same way about the missuse of our mind.

The Oyster effect is a common phenominan, it's something that is forever with us, we accept that pain and emotional turbulance that we suffer from time to time often not of our doing but purely circumstantial in nature is something that we will get over, and we do. Emotions are fabulous things, but we need to control them and not the other way around. Failure to control our emotions always leads to a life of random turbulence and unhappiness based thoughts which leads to depression and stress and anxiety. The sentient human being is a variable creature of infinitessimal feelings and notions and ideologies, yet at the same time it has a concurrent "oneness" with others no matter where they are and who they are. It's only religion (not God) that tears people apart causing mayhem and deaths, and old outdated traditions and customes predominantly from third world countries who also practise outmoded religiously concocted customs that are the cause of their own suffering and at times devilment. Ignorance and wrongly placed beliefs both in God and man are the tools for destruction and permanent hardship and not enjoying life because fear and upset and instability actually becomes the way of life.

The Oyster effect can produce both good and bad, it can be both harmonious and disruptive it can be anything. Anything that produces a base upon which inconsistant movement is a by-product elevates the production of ancillary motions, feelings, movements some of which at the time are just sub concious, yet after a prolonged time, such effects start to draw on a lifestyle change, one that incorporates the disruptive effect and the enormaty of each effect dictates how and when the outcome will result in whatever it manifestes. Social change works in exactly the same way, small inadequacies over time change methodology and mind patterns, socially inept councils and politically correct moronic people slowly take away self esteem, personal thought, and soon a degree of lawlessness is in evidence. The idea that they are doing good shows how really narrow and stupid they are when it comes to the bigger picture, as it produces a reliance on society as opposed to the self, then when governmental cut backs take place one has a lost society that finds it difficult to cope with.

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NATIONAL UNREST

Well at last its finally happened, the multi-cultural grand plan of pathetic politicians, politically correct morons and the tempering of police abilities has culminated in riots. And why not riot, the governments don't and can't understand what's happening, all they do is rely on consultants to present themselves with idealistic plans that 'fit in' with governmental strategies devised by the cloud minded governmental strategists who are so used to political rhetoric that its almost another language. The media debate such utilising the same old cronies of the past waxing lyrical with staid dull experts adding to the forum of yesterday's expertise and not on what should or shouldn't be done, it's the usual mental masturbation that we get used to and is at best substandard. In short it's a total communicational mess with people no matter how good or not so good as it may be impotent in their ability to be brave and bold, failures of their own making.

Life is at last back firing, the vein of young illiterate and hopeless people has grown to a level that they see no future, no chance and government diktat has been so badly and hopelessly purveyed via the Job Centres and various agencies that it's oppressive and demeaning and stifles that inner credibility that one needs to at least latch on to to foster hope. Where hope is none existent and where rules and regulations are so bureaucratic it saps one's energy just to appease pen pushers in the system that's devised for its own use. Where government has still even after recent situations weak financial regulators, weak phone regulators, weak broadcast regulators, all at the end of an elasticated string to those in government who feel they know best and as of recent date 'outed themselves' as to not having a clue. Fine talk and fine sparing is just that, it's real action that is needed, do we need to put advertisements in the global press seeking "world class leaders" wanted, someone to take care  of us in our home country, who has guts and understanding and foresight and are not frightened to bulldoze the wimps and pathetic who have nothing to offer. Do we need another Winston Churchill who will look after his own people first and then consider others later, because at the moment it's disadvantage UK citizen. The ideology of the "one size fits all" doesn't exist, people will get upset, but like bad tasting medicine it's what does you good.  Family breakdown is in mass evidence, where self respect is almost an extinct word and where local government and councils foster multi-growth where as it should foster a unity of purpose, it can't as they haven't a bloody clue themselves.

Cover ups, whitewash statements, bland presentations that all of a sudden 1000's of police will stop the rot, is futile, it won't make any difference to the thoughts raging still in the minds of those who've had enough. Where one's own countrymen have to pay for education and the government gives away millions to others countries for the self same thing. National identity and resources come first every time, you wouldn't buy next doors children clothing for a community PR exercise at the expense of letting your own suffer, but governments do that all the time. Playing God eventually falls short of it's promise, it doesn't work, if individuals want to give freely fabulous, but for those who are barely making ends meet the last thing they need to hear is that what taxes they pay are being syphoned off to foreigners.  Ones own country is not a global welfare society nor charitable status, and it's not some well off pop star or celebrity saying you must give when they drive their cars costing more than the price of an average flat, or jet set around the globe, two faced initiatives by others are also lacking in moral value for those at home. Giving to the poor doesn't ever stop poverty, it's a national structure that does that and where it's needed the most such as in Africa corruption is a way of life and value is an alien concept.

A country where illegal immigrants get more benefit that pensioners who have contributed all their lives in a hope that they will enjoy what years they have left, it all fuels national disharmony and unhappiness. It's not tax hikes or reductions that give happiness a boost or a negative image it's the gross and total unfairness that those that see their way of life diminish resent both government and local government and that endemic populations are actually disadvantaged against the mass of wingers that never tire of their lives as failures. It's the smug "bigger picture" that prime ministers and politicians portray that they "know best" and "your suffering" will be good in the long term. It's all a pack of lies, life is for living now, and there's nothing wrong with helping others and being generous, but when you start to rot in your own home because of grandiose ideas that others have over and above your own benefit it smacks of incompetence and impotence and self gratification of that of others happiness. And if politicians disagree with this ideology they are NOT what the electorate want, here lies the "UNHAPPINESS" factor of the nation.

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INEVITABLE INEQUALITY - A LIFE CONUNDRUM

The trouble with 'Politically Correct' people is that they are weak, insipid, fearful, unintelligent and have this universal approach to life that "one size fits all". They are usually single, over thirty, predominantly female (although not exclusively) and have a somewhat 'precious' outlook that belies their unhappy, unloved lifestyle, that many (not all) but many seem to induce. Life is not equal, never has been nor will be, we are not equal as people in the way that we have different abilities, aptitudes and understanding in life. Nor can life be responsible for the irresponsible, the United Nations is made up of a few countries that "have" and predominantly the rest - the majority - are "have nots", for whatever reason they are have nots. The successful countries on planet earth are predominantly Christian based and those ones which are predominantly unstable and unproductive are Islamic, where life is a matter of control, hatred and upset, global terrorism (in the name of love and peace of course) and although many would deny to your face quoting contextual verses, the talk and the walk are light years apart, the facts in front of you speak for themselves. The remainder are a mish mash of whatever corruption and bad management and lack of sincerity that is out there that's in power.

World turbulence will continue until eternity, there will not be an "accord" in life and the future will not be one of tolerance and peace as the pathetic so want it to be, it's not that others would like turbulence to be common place but the diversity of the past few years of migration shifts has toppled the status quo and so called developed countries have had thrust upon them illiterate and uneducated and ideologically stagnant people who because of weak governments, and the effect of political correctness have allowed backwardness to take root as opposed to bringing everyone up to date. In Europe the EEC in Brussels is at times living in a world of its own so out of touch with human feelings in the member states that it literally needs a rude awakening and new blood from those that live outside the bubble of conceited understanding and theoretical applications. There's even unaccountable spending and financial irregularities in Brussels itself not audited which for a "centre" of such as so called "responsible" body is reprehensible and smacks of  a smugness that breeds contempt of its own accord.

There are two kinds of life, the intellectual whereby those who forever consider the way things are going and predominantly get it wrong, it's possibly interesting stuff for television debates but no more than mental masturbation. And then there are those who basically don't give a dam as it's all out of their hands, and whilst they get annoyed at ministers endless procrastination and the press hyping everything out of proportion they have a thing called "a life" to get on with and enjoy the best way they can. Life is what you make it, there's no getting away from that fact, if you succumb or accede to circumstances you are finished. The sea change of life is accelerating at a speed of knots unknown to mankind, the breeding of intelligent yet illiterate people is also growing. Where many of the young are lost in confrontational situations so used are they to talking behind electronic devises and losing the ability to understand intuitive and personable feelings with fellow man. Age plays as a great part in how we have to adapt or make good who we are in life, at times we are forced into situations outside of our comfort zones and in reality this is where we and others actually grow and in the grand order of things it helps to keep us on an even keel and enhances stability to a degree. The current plague of youth unrest is not a "now" thing, it's been festering for years and political thought today is so wrong, with few strong and defiant leasers available it will continue until "nanny" states get real with life as it is.

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BELIEVING IN LUCK

There's a lot spoken about luck, we even say "you are lucky" when something good happens to someone, even if we don't know the circumstances to which the event has happened, it is at times an almost instinctive phrase we splash out on. But in reality is there ever such a thing as luck or is it really a series of circumstances that have come together at a certain time to produce a result which is favourable to us?  Or at times negative circumstances to provide what we would call "unlucky". For the most part we don't believe in magic even when we see it on television, we know somewhere lurking behind the scene or in the slight of hand there is a plausible understanding of how it all works. We could be passively surprised that a great aunt whom we didn't have any contact with has left us a legacy of money that will see us well for the rest of our lives, but is that luck or just the fact that we were left that money because of a plan behind the transaction taking place. On the face of it it may seem astounding and wonderful - and it is, and it could be construed as luck, one never knowing much about the aunt and indeed what wealth she had, but in reality what part did luck play in that money being left? Everything basically has a plan, those that win the lottery do so because they take part, tickets don't just fly into our hands for nothing. Whether we win or not is something else it's not luck it's a game of chance, and whether we want to adonate the fact that we are lucky that our numbers came up trumps it is after all a sheer electro-mechanical process, as some weeks no one gets to be a winner and thus it's a rollover time.

To be in the "luck" game we have to manufacture the circumstances for it to materialise, sitting at home isn't going to do anything for us and neither is contemplation or anything else, we have to be in it to win it, whatever it is that we wish to embark upon or win. Whether we go for a job or wish to elevate our lives or whatever it is the more we commune with life the chances of us getting ahead are far far greater than just thinking about it or hypothesising about it. Meeting like minded others or indeed similar people in different environments and indeed just meeting others no matter who they are can all be conduits that can whizz us on towards our desired destination. Calculating on those around us does very little in the order of things to know who knows who. Someone who is so remotely distanced from what you do can have a brother, sister, son, daughter, friend who is fully knowledgeable about what you do and indeed is either looking for someone like yourself or who could quickly place you within the thick of those you have been skirting around for such a long time. The value of networking is always impressive but be cautious as there are those who are seasoned net workers who do very little in life but take, take, take based on contacts and never give anything back, and if you have nothing to offer will shun you and not even offer to assist such is there devised smugness and meanness.

Life is not an even playing field so those that seem to "have luck" over those that don't means nothing, it's circumstances and not all luck ends as positive or at times hides negative underlying currents that we often don't see or if we do recognise such tend to brush aside as it often has a macabre appearance. The fact that some struggle for years whereas others seem to glide onwards is not to be analysed, our positioning in life does play a very big part as does our outward appearance, there are many factors that are unseen that play a significant part in our development and opportunities that are available. A positive mind is always an advantage as is compassion and understanding too, we can't live others lives or dreams neither can we allow others to live ours, surfing someone else's wave or flying in the slip stream of others is dangerous territory and smacks of a lack of self initiative and originality, it more often than not results in failure or gross disappointment. If you are religious then God is on your side, sadly some God's have done nothing for their followers ever, the Middle East is a prime example, despite fervent worship, if anything it's hindered growth and unsubstantiated the human being. For those that don't believe in anything, that we are a result of pure evolution and thus mistakes of the present moment without purpose or destination - you need all the luck you can get.

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MAKING SENSE OUT OF LIFE

We all like to make sense out of life, one minute we are assured and steadfast, another we are as it were all at sea in a hurricane and our grounding is without merit and we feel so alone and possibly helpless in the enormity of it all. Whatever it is we feel that feeling emanates from our mind and our limited thoughts that produce it, it can't nor does it come from anywhere else. We can only think for ourselves and circumstances no matter how gloomy they look or appear are always subject to change, which we all too often negate that possibility by dwelling on the negative and not the positive solutions. The more we ponder over the negative side of life the more we miss out on all the positive and good things that can take us away from where we are to a better and more productive and happier place. If we are not careful we can easily get into a rut with the thinking "poor old me" and compare ourselves to others and better times and get even more depressed - self depression that is, just through melancholy thoughts and dull thinking. When we feel trapped into a reality of our own it can appear that all is against us but it happens to everyone on planet earth, and it makes no difference whether we are rich or poor, the feeling is so strong it permeates our inner self and makes us feel introverted and detached from life. Nothing is the same anymore as our thoughts completely subsume our personality and the solution of the problem of where we are and why it is at the forefront of everything we do. We have to rid ourselves of that in order to break this imaginary barrier which we have drummed up ourselves in order to see the light yet again and also rid ourselves of all the negative perceptions of "will it ever be the same" or "when will it end" and all the other stupid and selfish mind games we drum up in order to appease ourselves. As fabulous as the human race is and as individuals can be we can also let ourselves down badly and be totally fickle too.

We often hold on to concocted notions, become more sensitive to others and our surroundings but it's not a healthy sensitivity it's a morbid and even subliminally jealous one that fuels that feeling that "it's all right for others but in our circumstances it isn't" which is a pack of lies and full of self deceit and really pathetic, but it's also very common too. This mindless thought ruins any self esteem we may have within and lowers our resistance to going forward and moving to a better place which we will ultimately do. We really do have a lot of power and fortitude within us for our benefit yet if we reverse it it can work against us, and if we do that it's because we have consciously done it against ourselves, it's not a case of it's just happened because that isn't true. A number of years ago when many things appeared to go wrong all at once I thought well if I was a little slimmer I would feel better anyway under the circumstances, so I lost weight and whilst that was great it made no difference to how I felt about what else was around me. It's this mental comparison that the mind is trying to compensate and say that "it's all right" which it isn't and whilst losing weight was great, everything else is in a different league and we have to deal with or tackle what we have to do in each respective area as an entity in itself. Life is holistic in that it's made up of many constituent parts and each part represents an area that does something that needs tending to like eating and drinking, we have to do that in addition to anything else we do.

Of course life is literally what we make it, if we seek happiness or seek love we will if ever find it because both of those commodities are within us already, it's just us being pitiable and trying to outsource them thinking that everything we want or need is elsewhere, it's not. Many also have that feeling that the "answer" to their problems and solutions lies "out there with some saged person" and if they can just access that person or their knowledge then all will be well, it won't, you're stupid if you think that way. It doesn't mean that there aren't others who have more or better knowledge than yourself but at the end of the day it's you who has to walk the walk and talk the talk no one else. And whilst we can always learn if the attitude is that success is a line in someone else's book or a few words uttered by someone else then we will be perpetually at a loss as to do anything for ourselves. And no matter what great and truthful words burst forth from the lips of those that have done well, there is forever that eternal "time line". The "time line" is what they did then, at that time, with those circumstances, with that mind set, with those prevailing conditions, and so forth, it doesn't mean that a parallel course in advance with a near identical situation will follow suite to be successful because it rarely happens that way. The smart words remain, life moves on.

Our reality and the reality of others whilst at times may seem almost a concurrent motion and thought process, it seldom is, the bits on either side that we don't see nor know of deliver a course by both or additional parties to a destination ranking in different qualities. It's this self imperative status that we need to foster to be who we are and not latch on to others hoping that we can surf their wave too, we can't and often what appears really cool and great in someone else's court is far from the truth and not a tangible reality in the long term. It's ironic but in times where we feel we need guidance we get very little help and at times when everything is moving well we seem to get the help we want with great ease. However, it's our own personal dexterity in times of need and often in conjunction with our lowness that we need to fight onwards as it's in these times we grow more than usual and break through into newer and better areas of elevation, understanding and confidence. Even when doors are shut in our face or avenues of thought turn out to be abrupt endings, we are still cancelling out the wave of negativity to the extent that ten, twenty, a hundred tries is by default narrowing the field and we learn en-route even if it's disheartening in the process. Eventually that one door is open or we come across a conduit to leap to our new destination and that's what separates the men from the boys as it were, that's what makes success all that much sweeter because of the dedication to winning the game and not giving in.

Life holds no favourites, it takes no prisoners, it holds nothing in store whether good or bad, it evolves itself and in doing so we must evolve too or be left behind in a spacial time warp of old thoughts and ideas which will render us not only incomplete but redundant in purpose and constantly battling with a nothingness of our own creation. Smart books and inspirational speeches are all very well and good but it's still us that has to do all the work, find the energy, find the money, find the purpose and find what we are really like as people none of which others can help us with. Any help we do get has to be offset by what we can contribute in the main part as it's for ourselves we are engaging in whatever it is that we feel is going to be worthwhile. All around us are people purporting to be able to transform us into prized trophies who overnight will enjoy success, wealth and all that goes with it, sadly even when we have paid out a small fortune we realise that the money would have been better spent in getting our act together and not thinking that others will do it for us or give us the missing jigsaw pieces to make it happen, it rarely does even if we do come away with more information it rarely gets us off the ground.

Going forward in life must be enjoyable, if it's an uphill struggle then we are going to be on edge all the time and feeling disappointment whenever something doesn't go our way. Stress and anxiety can kill us, they can dislodge our equilibrium and throw cold water on everything we do.  We have to walk with a heart which contains love and humility which doesn't mean we are push over or easy meat for someone else, it means that we have the fortitude to continue in the roughest of storms and still smile in the middle of it. It means that when we become successful we will have a feeling of real achievement without having to buy endless possessions to fool ourselves that we've made it, even though we may like to do so because we can there is a difference. If we don't enjoy life then that's what we have decided and if we have a list as to why this is so we are already a failure in life and it's all a big cop out. Good migrates to good, bad migrates to bad and indifference is a waste of time and thus displays itself by that thought process and all that goes with it. Your life, happiness and everything else is in your hands, if you think it isn't you've lost.

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THE EVOLUTION GAME

None of us know what's going to happen tomorrow, we have a very good idea based upon our lifestyle, our work, what we have forward planned, our routines and what may come our way in the way of friends contacting us to joing them for some function or other, but other than that we don't really know until it happens what is going to happen. Everyday someone somewhere is diagnosed with some illness, someone dies in an accident and people get made redundant. There are also grand catastrophies like Tsunami's and earthquakes and there are revolutions like in the Middle East, which will go on for many years to come. And for those who get caught in aspects of life that don't hold great value it's an almost about face change in an instant, all our thoughts and planning goes literally in an instant, a realignment of thought and purpose has to immediately take effect and that seperates us from life itself even though we are still a part of the bigger picture. Evolution is both good and challenging, it's good that we progress even if we make mistakes en-route, it's good that many people are living a better life, it's good that evolution brings us potential too, although it's wasted on some people and countries that are religiously controlled as they forever hold everything back. It's challenging in that the grande move forward brings with it a change in life circumstances, weather conditions, illnesses, earth temperatures and a host of other things, but man in his quest to be better for fellow man generally overcomes such obstacles and in his own right generates an evolutionary process all of his own. Even the internet has brough millions of people within easy grasp of each other and at the same time highlighted the mentally sick and perverse in those speading electronic viruses, spam and creating 'on-line' fraud because they are part of the global dross, rejects and the sad people that come with the whole parcel.

Our own lot comprises of aspirations, dreams, likes and dislikes and the need to fellowship with other human beings, all of these things are within our grasp but for the majority only a few ever realise what they aspire to do and then when they get there they find it 'different', not necessarily better or not necessarily worse but just different. Our forward dreams always need modification which rarely happens so when somehing like what we wished for comes along the edge is talen off it with regards excitement, often it may have been so long in the process of coming that we feel we are more in need of it than anything else. Time, experience, life itself hones our thoughts and melds our wants and likes to a more palatable understanding of what we really want or need as opposed to a "what we would like" thought. Enjoying the daily moment no matter what that is is essential for if we can't enjoy today it's rare that we will ever enjoy tomorrow. Postponing happiness is something of a habit which we must not ever get into for it will make time speed up and thwart totally our ability to go forward with a positive attitude and mind.

For some evolution is a step too far, for many religious leaders evolution is almost evil in that they can't conrtrol it and can't come to terms with modern developments and ancient scriptures because they are personally inept, dull, boring and short sightend and even frightened themselves. It's a hotch potch of personal ideologies which it shouldn't be because man is not God and shouldn't "play at being God" and make things up, which many do, and why so many suffer because of it.  Evolution takes place under our own eyes, our children grow up, get married, leave home, start new jobs, etc, a whole host of new things and how we allow that freedom to benefit us or selfishly restrict it because of reduntant and outmoded cultures and traditions that have no place anymore in today has a price to pay. We may as well get used to evolution because we are a part of it, a miniscule part and our part to play or role is what we make it, there is literally no right nor wrong but it's how we mentally assimilate it all that makes a difference.

One thing for sure that in a free world we are the masters of our destiny, if we develop for the good of mankind, for our fellow human beings we are part of the noble picture of what man does and has done for centuaries, no matter how small a part it is. It's where all modern medical science and technology is today, it's why most of us live in civilised societies and can freely communicate with others around the globe without interference, hindrance or control by those who don't possess foresight and vision. It's where equality of life strives to be better as opposed to being repressed, life moves forward and it's how we respond to it that makes the difference. Evolution is where the Middle East is waking up and where Africa is still asleep, where both of these end up is down to themselves, but wrong moves based upon religion and ideology will be more than catastrophic in what transpires, where they both are now isn't working. The Middle East has to get it right now for when the oil runs out they will have no appreciable income.

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THE PHANTOM LIFE OF NOTHINGNESS

The more we do the better life is, we find the energy and the ability and the will power to get through, even if we are exhausted and shattered, we do it. We plan our times and make the appropriate arrangements and fit in the appointments with the dentist, the doctor, having the car serviced, shopping, socialising, and whatever else we have to do we do it, and what's more actually have something called "a life". We dream or aspire to having to "do nothing" to be on that beach or countryside, chilling out over leisurely meals, a glass of wine, reading, swimming, adventure trekking whatever it is that gets our proverbial juices flowing. The moment we get time to ourselves we take advantage of it - or do we, strangely enough the "doing nothing bit" we often initially enjoy but that soon leads to a thought that we have "wasted out time" and didn't do what we had intended. We may have cleared the attic, the garden, painted the kitchen whatever, but then whilst that can in itself be immensely satisfying, we still haven't had that idyllic leisure time that we deep down would have liked so we often carry that feeling over. How we "decide" to enjoy life is down to us, if we hold near to our hearts a perfect restful time that we can indulge ourselves in then the chances are for most people such times will be few are far between. With that in mind we will forever be looking at falling short of our goals or ideals or whatever and thus there will be a stigma associated with our leisure time, which there shouldn't be. We should utilise what time we have and if by chance we literally "do nothing" then that's absolutely fine because it will have done us some good even if it's not what we would ultimately liked to have done. Aspirations, goals, realities, we can pick and choose and still be happy if one doesn't fit the bill at the last minute. We can't go through life harbouring the "I should have done this" or "I wanted to do that" etc, and not gotten round to it. Live and enjoy the moment rather than fear the "I should /could have" past tense scenario. If you didn't - you didn't, if you haven't - you haven't, that's it, move on, get the habit and eventually you'll get all you want done without the burden of mental pressures always lurking beneath the surface.

On the other side of the track where one has endless time and does little and whilst certain duties need to be administered we have less of a hectic life and no great schedules, life takes on a completely different stance. The mind often takes over and at times not only rules the roost but plays games in the vastness of the absence of doing something. If you have too much free time to hand you can feel overly tired and lethargic indeed the whole body process slows down. When that happens the mind loses its ability to see opportunities as they quite often appear not only tiring but full of effort and it's not the warranted effort that excitement can produce. Along side lethargy is the lack of stimuli  and the lack of real zest that one needs to progress. Even good and great things become lacklustre thus the mind sees life as an ongoing lowness and numbed experience with few ups and the rest lows almost "flat lining" on a living scale. Nothingness as such has greater consequences than being overly stretched. With nothingness life appears dull, in fact everything appears dull, and life also becomes very selfishly orientated, all towards 'me' and my home, and my life, and my space and that can at times form mental barriers as to letting yourself go, or forever leaving early to "get an early night" even at weekends and so it goes on. For the elderly it makes not too much difference but for those who are quite young it can have a profound effect upon how they think, live and move or lack of all those things. In some cases mental conditions can arise and it's very difficult to get out of them. We all at times go through patches of being very busy and then it can revert to the opposite because of prevailing factors around us and with those we regularly see, it's evolution in the making, there's nothing wrong with that. It's when we rest in our own state of nothingness that the ageing process speeds up and we then become embroiled in a self designed process of stagnation and pamper to it thus we eventually cut ourselves off from the main stream of life where we should be at.  

Rest is important, but like everything in life too much or too little of something isn't that good for us as it takes moderation to iron out and give credence to our lives. So what if we are thrust into a nothingness by circumstances, we don't know of how long we will be there so mentally it's a state of lack of understanding about our future, who we are and what is to become of us. These areas if not resolved at least to some degree will not only allow apathy to raise its ugly head but thwart within our ability to move forward, get ourselves out of our quandary and enjoy the rest of our lives. In the meantime we act as if alone amongst friends and family because our want to communicate is almost "offline" even if at the other end of the spectrum we want the closeness of others to feel that human warmth and break the coldness of our current state of thought. Nothingness can be the biggest problem we ever face, it's way beyond boredom it's when nothing becomes a lifestyle and that is when our whole ideology of life changes or morphs into something made up within our thought process. The trouble with our own thought process is that it's made up of a number of areas that can either come to life or stay dormant depending upon the stimuli we have. So if we become busy we see life differently, if we become becalmed then we can revert into a state of negativity such is the "switching" threshold we have within us all, some more than others. If we become becalmed then we can almost be the antithesis of who we once were with dire consequences. After all where the mind goes the body follows, it has to so if depression looms large even if temporary then our body feels the effects of such and so it all goes into a downward spiral. The good news is that there is always a number of solutions, but it's us that has to seek them out and utilise them, after all it's only us who can take advantage of such and it's not despite our wayward thoughts going to be handed to us on a plate.

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PEOPLE IN CONFLICT

We have a global community at our finger tips, world events relayed by endless magazines and media stations all with their own slant on the news and their own flavour of reporting it. We predominantly subscribe to the various media types and styles that suite our own thought processes as it's easier to digest and follow. However at the same time we still like to read the "other" publications / news items to see alternative view points. The base of much of what is put out to us is that of conflicting worlds, rich meets poor, east meets west, success meets failure,  and of course the clash of religions is always there, the progressive religions meets head on the repressive religions - almost an east meets west yet again in style and character. The changeability of life and the world at large is as such that everything is speeding up, the corporate structures in business, the world finance situation, the climate, health, fighting and dictatorial rule, populations challenging staid family run autocratic countries, wars between fraction groups, the race is on. The migration of people' across the globe is forever increasing changing the endemic structures of life and thought in some countries beyond the comprehension of native citizens. Weak ineffective governments ensue in failing in coping with such and thus undue tensions and unbalance arises because of it, in most cases in the short term it's all a detrimental step, like everything only time will allow a reasonable cross flow of unity, although some countries harbour community unrest for centuries. The worst aspect of any intermingling of people's is that of religion, where old staid meets the new and the old staid camp never fully integrate and are always the "lower class" as they can't or possibly don't want to upgrade to modernity and thus have to endure the price they pay for it all. Always living in the shadows of those that create and bring innovation to the fore they are at times permanent recipients of life's hand downs.

There are some countries that are permanently in conflict, they have a duality of resident, those that live within the detritus that abounds and often have a fairly good life, and those that are part of the ongoing upheaval because it's a part of their life, even though rarely anything positive comes out of it. The losers are the masses who remain uneducated and are modern day peasants who see, hear and look but are able to do nothing other than survive from their lowly jobs of self livelihood at doing whatever they do. There are still 27,000,000 black slaves in Islamic countries today. Governments of such countries are almost always corrupt because they can be, because they can see glaring differences and are privy to the means of spoils because of their position. They are also egotists, and backhanders which are rife in the Middle East and Africa in particular forever stopping real progress as somewhere down the line even charities get their funds or products syphoned off to the fortunate few. The overseeing of aid fund isn't always a guarantee of fair play, and even the EU Commission doesn't have audited books to the level of costs and expenditures that most governments wouldn't, it has already EU3bn unaccounted for expenses. Religious organisations are also to blame as they are inept at foreseeing a future so prefer to keep their worshipers festooned in a time warp of religious fear and lowliness, too much education and their congregation would grasp the bigger picture for themselves and move on. The flow of science, technology, lifestyles, global travel and media has overtaken most religions who live in a sterile world of their own and in real terms are far from Godly people, their leaders see themselves are God's representatives as opposed to God's servants and here lies an area which they have self cultivated in order to seemingly keep a degree of authority and power, it's fading fast.

Home life, business life and the state of our national health whether mental or physical or indeed both is under attack as medical science wants us to live longer. Once we lived the way we chose then we died, now we have a formulae or regime on how to live to stave off certain conditions and improve our lot, whilst at the same time manufactures plough us with unhealthy foods mainly aiming at the lower end of the market of convenience at a price. It can be devastating to be in a conflict with family, friends, business, life, countries, as it throws our whole system into a mode which is based on rather unsavoury thoughts and feelings, the niceties of life tend to stop flowing once we have decided that we are in conflict and our ideology changes too. To commerce human beings are but fodder to gain a revenue from, to religions they preach one thing sometimes sincerely but haven't the personal nor professional ability to deliver it honestly, and then we have the media who are happy to be whores and game for anything including the ZOO TV slots making fun of unfortunate people for cheap but profitable television, no morals, cold, callous, insincere, thoughtless - yes - just bring it on. The same TV companies that seek to make award winning documentaries about overseas exploitation of humans and people trafficking are ironically supported by their own immorality at home.

We need to keep our wits about us as to the real truth that lies behind the stories. Whilst a story may purvey the truth via  the merits of its content, the bigger picture when placing all the stories together depicts often a far different picture at times acting as a catalyst for one another and accelerating great disharmony, disruption, unhappiness, subterfuge, and the rest. The "gatekeepers" those that are in positions to judge ironically are usually the most inept having an 'overall' view of what they are judging yet are so off the mark as they can't literally 'see' cleverness or brilliance or 'out of the box' thinkers. Their own inner judgment is impervious to such people and thus reject often emotionally people who should be given prime time and not be placed upon the reject list. Conflict is nothing new, it's been around since year dot, there are even programmes for conflict management, and border wars still happen based upon who has this and who has that, and so it all goes on. Most of us get in a bit of a huff about something perhaps even literally trivia and egotistically lead thoughts but we just get over it and move on, which is how it should be. Life isn't for harbouring negative emotions, some base their lives on conflict and let it rage within as if it's their sole reason to live, but we steer clear of such people - don't we? At the end of the day life has a strange way of readdressing balance, although it may not be in our life time, but in between we need to enjoy life and not be embroiled in a conflict of our own and miss out grandly because our interests are vested in negativity. Enjoying life to the best you can allows one to see over and above the obstacles in front and often the reward for that is somewhat sweeter than one could have imagined.

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