As one becomes more mature, it becomes apparent that one is much more aware of one's personal feelings about life, about the world, about others, but it also becomes apparent that one becomes more aware of what everyone else is experiencing. And right now, my mind and heart are reeling from all the problems and disasters and losses that are being experienced everywhere.
Bizarre and violent weather has destroyed so many homes and business buildings in so many places across the center of our country. I sit in my home, full of things that are displayed to represent experiences and memories in my life, and I hear about all those losses, and my humanity reaches out helplessly to all of those who have simply lost everything.
In other countries, violent idiocies are destroying homes and families and futures. In Gaza, children are dying of malnutrition, while heads of state cannot grasp that these sufferings will not, will never, bring back losses.
In Ukraine, a vicious invasion just destroys, constantly, as if that destruction could possibly gain the destroyers praise and victory.
Some of the human destruction is because of religion, other destruction is because of hubris.
To those who destroy in the names of their religions, I repeat a quote I read: "I stand for humanity!"
To those who destroy in the name of vanity, I repeat another quote I read: "What would it benefit for those who gain the whole world, and lose their own soul?"
For, though I am not particularly wise or good or brave or strong, I know this for certain: As the song goes, 'What the world needs now is love, sweet love, that's the only thing that there's just too little of."
