People tell me not to take things so serious

[blues90]

I don't know how to do that anylonger , do you ? What does one do to get their mind off all these horrors going on all around us .

I must say I find it real difficult to think about anything else even though I do try , the shock of this reality keeps jolting me . i can't feel secure in a job and find it difficult to be motivatd as if the job really has a purpose other than survival and this is not my idea of suvival living each day knowing things are getting worse every day and I can't see the future or even imagine what it will look like if we have one at all .

I heard Huffy who makes bikes has just closed and outsourced to china , jesus , what jobs will we have left in this country , everything is being sold and sent away , where is the security and where are the jobs you or I will need when what we may have now is gone as well . Don't people worry about this happening to them , I happened to me twice and I am on high alert now just waiting for the day and now I make $11 per hour for close to slave work , what's the point , if I loose this crap job there will be even more people fighting for the ever increasing jobs that may be left for even less money .

This is on the home front and all else effects us all sonner or later , doesn't this scare people into a reaction ? i scares the hell out of me . How on earth can I sit here trying to force a small bit of hope things will get better . What will get better and how will it ever get there ? Does anyone think these jobs will ever return , if so you are kidding right ? And who is opening new business opportunity , how do you replace hundreds of thousands of jobs anytime soon if ever ?

I am sorry , I just don't see it or the hope .

[Poll_Blind]

1. Here are a few things that I do:

I enjoy hanging out with children. I highly recommend it. At least once a week I and my girlfriend watch up to about 8 children (she's got 2, I've got one). There's something about children that, nomatter how bad you think things are going to get, just reaffirms why you're fighting against evil in the first place. So that hopefully in 20 years they won't be on message boards or whatever passes for discussion forums, posting messages like you or I do.

Flirt. Compliment. Be civil to those around you. Be polite and thoughtful. It generally breeds more politeness and thoughtfullness to some degree, at least in the real world.

Have torrid, steamy, mindblowingly dirty sex within the confines of a stable, loving relationship. If that's available to you, I say exploit it as much as possible. Does wonders to brighten up a day.

I like to go camping. Bugs crawl all over me, I dig in the dirt, watch animals blissfully unaware (to a certain extent) of the horror that mankind has or will bring to their very existence. Watching an animal stroll or crawl or trot by me that is aware but absolutely unconcerned about my presence always makes me feel better for some reason. Swim, splash, blow bubbles underwater.

If all of these fail, and sometimes they're either unavailable or don't work, I just lay on my back in the yard or out in the woods and watch the stars in their enormity and distance and thankfully realize that if we do fuck the whole thing up beyond repair and the Earth cracks in two, there are billions and billions of other places that may succeed while longer than we have and that our fuck-ups can't possibly affect them.

On some nights, when the news is very bad, I am thankful that our world exists as a bulkhead between us and the other experiments gurgling throughout the universe.

Those are some options I like to exercise before returning to the blood-soaked trenches of Reality, anyway,

PB

4. those are some good ones

I bet the kids enjoy being with you too.

[Master Mahon]

2. Do what the Bush's do

a lot of Jim Beam with a snort of crack chaser!! :+

[RufusEarl]

3. I agree, how does one keep from being concerned?

The people that are paying attention are very concerned, the others just aren't paying attention.

Hell i watched the ABA on C-Span last night and they're all concerned, if a bunch of wealthy attorneys are concerned shouldn't an ole poor boy like me be concerned? I think yes!!

[Poll_Blind]

5. I think most people find it difficult to cope with the horrors of reality.

..so they just check out. It's like everyone since the Industrial Age has been living in a steadily-growing state of shock. And with good reason. So they check out, to varying degrees, for as long as possible until something really bad happens and then, when they have to really come back to reality, go into a kind of panic attack about how overwhelming it all is. I can't blame them and I certainly do it, to a lesser degree I assert, myself.

Not to mention the poles reversed a few years ago- I still haven't discounted that as a major cause of weirdness.

PB

[RufusEarl]

7. A major cause of weirdness, ain't it the truth!!

[porphyrian]

6. Well, one day we'll all be dead.

What can you do between now and then so that you don't regret the time between now and then when it comes?

[bonito]

8. Hope , just hope, I guess

The more awake we are, the more we see and worry for the future, and man it is painful, responsibility without the power to change the world for the better.
I don't know the answer, but I educate my children in what I see, realizing it will bring discomfort, but to let them sleepwalk through life, would be even worse I guess.
But yet there is hope, we may not be able to change the world, but I have the power to change my outlook on it without putting my head back in the sand, and I know this, when I change, the world changes, and for the good I go. Peace
Edit for a hug :pals:

[blues90]

9. I fear the future is just around the corner

People are not going to find it easy to avoid thinking about even next week . The rate at which the world is coming apart is alarming and each day there is at least a thousand people , probably many more who find themselves without an income .

We bought into cheap products and in a very real sense we were forced to accept them but we could have stopped this before it got out of control . But we didn't , like everything else when we can pay less we think it's a good thing but in the end which we are facing now it is obvious we only cut our own throats .

This is what we are doing again accepting Iraq as a terrorist harbor , not me or you but enough blind scared people hold onto this as their reality because they accept and never question .

What is alarming and disheartening is how americans for the most part allow all this murder to continue .