If you don't read this

I have just been looking at the news and over the last few day there have been quite a few
"non- terrorist" events happenings. It seems like the media are building up the suspense and when and if something happens -"well, you were warned".

I have 61 years under my belt. Not saying that this huge amount of time has given me any claim to wisdom because it hasn't - I'm still as mad as a box of frogs as I always have been. If anything I have increased my birthright. But I still have a memory, just, and as the saying goes: I've heard geese fart before.

I am not saying that things won't happen, but in those 61years there has been a constant stream of fear generating stuff that might happen, so much so that you start to wonder.

From big things to little, I know fear helps to sell everything from insurance to deoderant.
" Even your best friend won't tell you." Remember that one?
"God, if I don't buy........ I might stink and not know it 'cos no one will tell me!"

Fear, since time immomorial, has been used to control and coerce. It works well as it is very contagious and after a while it becomes self-perpetuating.

It is so easy to listen to something you would not normaly listen to if you are frightened.
And when I say frightened I don't mean terrified I just mean that low-grade fear, the back ground fear we have learned to live with. Then we listen and if the ground work has all been done well enough, we believe a little and compromise, just for our peace of mind. After all, if you have nothing to hide what does it matter!!!

Of course our leaders and the powers-that-be would never do such a thing, after all we voted them in? What about then: If you don't join our club you can go and stay at Old Harry's for ever- and this is how bad it is. But stick with us and you will be alright. Or even: If you don't use my kind of Reiki you will be missing out on the real thing! Big things or little, fear is a powerful tool. It has even been know for countries to go to war because of it.

It is so very hard not to get drawn into the web of fear and hate. It is so easy when we do to band togethter and blame someone else some other group. To make them the reason stuff is happening. Easy. especial if the propegander is to an extent true even if it has been emgeneed to be that way.

It is so hard to get good unbiased infomation> The internet? A great place to get good information. True and an even better place to promote disinformation. Sorry but you are on your own.

Oh dear me, doom and gloom ...! No it's not. Life is just fine and on the whole safe, it just helps if you have a game plan of your own.

Tomorrow (give or take a bit) I will tell you mine 'cos I just looked at the time and I'm late for lunch and if you know my feeder... you would be frightened too. Control in action.

Just one last thing before I go. Why are you reading this blogg? All I had said was
if you don't read this you will never know... Maybe just a little fear that you might be missing out on something.

The Mayonnaise Jar.

The net went down the other day and unable to do what I wanted to, I fiddled, clearing out all the junk files I had collected over time. In one file I found the piece I have attached below. Don't know who sent it to me or where it came from but I like it. So here it is as it was sent, thanks.

The Mayonnaise Jar

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle,
When 24 hours in a day is not enough;
remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class
and had some items in front of him.
When the class began, wordlessly,
he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar
and start to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured
it into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again
if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand
and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded
With an unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table
and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively
filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.

'Now,' said the professor, as the laughter subsided,
'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things - Family,
children, health, friends, and favorite passions
Things that if everything else was lost
and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the things that matter like your job, house, and car.

The sand is everything else --
The small stuff.

'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued,
'there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff,
You will never have room for the things that are
important to you.

So...

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play with your children.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner.

There will always be time
to clean the house and fix the dripping tap.

'Take care of the golf balls first --
The things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.'

One of the students raised her hand
and inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled.

'I'm glad you asked'.

It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,
there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.'