Lately, it has been gray and gloomy again; not exactly cold, but definitely not warm, either... and it certainly doesn't look like summer. It might rain drizzle, even. Yesterday, it did. Somehow, it matches the greater "energy" of the world, to go all woo-woo with it.
It has been like this for a couple of weeks now, and even though we do have something we locally refer to as the "June Gloom", that has historically referred to morning fogs — that burn off by early afternoon — not to this cloudiness that goes around the clock and sometimes turns to drizzle.
Some members of the local "Tinfoil Hat Brigade" are convinced that it's all due to "chemtrails" and the government practicing weather manipulation, and we're just the guinea pigs in the experiment. Not so sure about that, but it's one theory, I suppose.
Of course, then I think back to my childhood in Denmark and to the adults of the time half-joking among themselves that "summer fell on a Tuesday" during some given year. That's probably closer to the actual truth, at the moment.
Which is how I ended up contemplating the pervasive need for modern society — or at least many of the members of said society — to always look for someone or something to blame for pretty much everything, rather than to simply accept the natural flow of life, along with the fact that many of our problems are ultimately the result of our own shortcomings, not some external factor.
For example, I am perfectly well aware that many of my own financial woes can be ascribed to the fact that I am (A) not particularly ambitious combined with (B) a tendency to be overly generous when other people are in need. Not much coming in + giving a lot away typically ends up meaning "not very much."
Which is part of my own (likely quite false!) notion that if you do good for others, good things will come to you, as well.
Sadly, a more plausible reality is that most people are struggling, and would just as well take a free handout without a thank you or a goodbye than do good in the world, themselves.
I'm not really a cynic by nature, but tangible experience has taught me to become one... at least to some extent.
Perhaps every generation makes the assessment that "the world is going to hell in a handbasket," and I'm just following in the footsteps of a very old tradition by making that assertion now. Could be that things in the world are no different than they ever were, and I'm just... wait for it... *looking for something to blame.. *
But probably not.
I hate to say it, but I fear the digital age has made us all (or ALMOST all) more self-involved and entitled.
But what can we really do?
The world is going to go about its business in whatever way it will. We just have to find the tiny pockets we like... and flow with those.
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