Nothing to Say, A Lot to Think

Granny here,

Just sitting here thinking how sometimes I feel like I have nothing to say because no one cares to listen. Not because it's me talking, it's just that people aren't into talking and listening these days so thinking is all we have left and of course blogging. Thinking doesn't get anyone in trouble except the person doing the thinking, right? That is unless the person doing the thinking decides to act on their thoughts and then there could be some real trouble.

We see this everyday in the news when some nut decides to carry out his thoughts. This world has become a scary place. It makes one want to dig a hole and pull the hole in after yourself. What is happening to our world, to it's people. Have we become a society so self absorbed that we have to create a disaster of some kind to get the attention we think we so rightly deserve.

Are we such idiots that we believe that what we encounter in person, on T.V., in music, games, videos has no adverse effect on us. We've all heard the saying "trash in, trash out". We can see the proof of this every day when we watch the news, hear our neighbors, listen to our school officials just to name a few sources. Measures of all descriptions have had to be put into place to try and protect the sane citizens that we still have in our society.Well, it looks as if society is fast becoming one large trash can but there is a cleanser and His name is Jesus Christ.

Having lived 72 years now I have enough experience in life to have some comparisons under my belt and believe me the world has done some major changing in those 72 years and not all good ones either. It seems that the slippery slope it has been on since the beginning of time has become more slippery over the last 25 years sliding society into a cesspool of sin and despair that is about to totally consume us.

Comparing life today to the life I encountered as a young child, teenager and young adult is like comparing life on skid row and being a winner of the lottery. My life as a child was carefree and secure, as far as I was concerned. My parents did all the worrying, I was never brought into the adult world, I was treated as a child and was only allowed to do, hear, say and be involved in things that fit into a child's world. I believe that is called parenting. Where is that concept today?

As a teenager I was chaperoned, given orders and chores for which I was not paid as if I was an employee instead of a responsible member of a family who had responsibilities to that family as well as any other member. I was expected to honor my mother and father as long as they were my parents not until I reached the age of twenty-one, although becoming an "adult" did give me some freedoms I had not known until then. I was taught by my parents and the society that I was lucky enough to be part of in the 50's that when I made a commitment I kept that commitment whether it be in my personal life, my business life or my social life, I was to keep my word, it was expected.

I was taught that during my life I would experience success, failure, disappointments, betrayal, I would win sometimes and I would lose sometimes but never was I taught to give up, to let others down, to whine, to get revenge. I was taught to love, to forgive, to have compassion, generosity and concern for those less fortunate than myself although it may be taken for granted by those who benefit from it.

Putting one's thoughts down on paper or in a blog can open up a cavity far deeper than we ourselves realize, it can open up a fountain of bottled up thoughts and ideas that have been festering for quite sometime, some good and some not so good. But it gets it off our chest and the load becomes a little lighter and in the process we may get someone else who thinks they have nothing to say to realize that it just isn't so, when in reality if the fountain is opened it will be hard to turn it off.


Granny here, just saying!