I am so worried about our country. The violence. The disregard for humanity. For human life. The automatic weapons. Our economy crumbling. Our inability to have civil discourse over disagreements. Yelling over each other on television. Saying awful things just to say we don’t agree.
I am so worried about our country. The hate. The disconnect from our neighbors because they may not agree with our point of view. Don’t like who we voted for President. The fear that our jobs may be lost. Our mortgage payments may go late. Our kids fearful at school. Our schools defunded, our teachers overworked. Our firefighters and police underpaid. Our military veterans respected until they become veterans or disabled, then thrown away as a guilty afterthought, and abandoned to their own devices even in death – their children and spouses dropped from our consciousness because they no longer matter.
I am so worried about our country because our politics are about ego and winners and the next election and making it hard for people to vote, instead of about “we the people.” Our need for deep relationships reduced in the business of media as the pursuit of sex. Our children’s futures, and those least able to care for themselves, reduced to political gaming of our national debt and our rapidly diminishing social security.
There is no end to this fear, as we retreat into our homes, into our living room TV sets, and our online connections, ignoring or blindly hoping for a better future for ourselves, our children – faintly believing it may all turn out all right.
Our fear for our country, our fear for the stability of our own family’s future, our gut wrenching fear for our children in their schools, playgrounds and on the streets, our sense of powerlessness growing with each terrible tragedy that fractures our cocooned peace.
Fear. Country. Family. Future.
And sometimes the only hope is here…among you who listen, talk, share online. Hope here among my blogging sistahs – that’s how I call hundreds and thousands of my blogging buddies. Here online. Wrapped in the embrace of you, my unmet sisters online who give freely of their hopes, their dreams, dropping their own fear to say hello, try this, buy that, but who are really saying, “love is precious, everywhere, let us all gather it in together, share in it, feast amongst it, and move forward as best we can – as sisters bound into an unknown future together.”
Fear. Hope. Future. Dreams. My Blogging Sistahs together…thank you all, each of you, for being “out there” for me. For US.
You are “out there” in the ethernet for all and each one of us. Thank you.
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Interestingly, I was watching the movie “God Bless America” and I couldn’t help wondering what our world has become. Why are we glorifying rude and mean people like SImon Cowell ? What ‘s with the pop culture obsessions of this generation? Has all this screw up our values and morals so much that we can’t tell the difference between right and wrong or what’s virtual and real anymore?
It seems like we all have very short memories. Once this tragedy is behind us, we forgot and will only wake up again until the next tragedy.
Veronica,
At times, the society drives itself based on the egotistical instincts. Those instincts are ever present, they don’t go away. What’s missing is a consensus of right and wrong when it comes to personhood, human dignity.
When they are respected as it should be, then the society builds its laws, actions, decision-making organically with these values in mind.
Thank you for your thoughts, they make me think and reflect further.
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It would be easy for me to say that it is time to take our country back – by saying no to violent games and movies, by calling for tougher gun laws, by not accepting rudeness and bullying, by demanding that our politicians step up and begin to lead and listen to our voices – whatever it takes to turn things around.
BUT I’m afraid it may be becoming too late. I’m afraid there are more of THEM (parents who are raising children with no moral compass, a generation of people who have no regard for other human beings, a society that no longer fears authority or consequences) and less of US (people who want a return to a civil society, parents who are raising kind and responsible kids, people that value teachers, police officers, our military and veterans instead of sports figures and celebrities).
I find myself becoming more and more cynical and frightened, and what happened in Newtown CT has only heightened those feelings. I wonder if there are enough of US to turn this country around. If the slaughter of twenty 6 & 7 year olds is not the catalyst for change, I cannot even imagine what it will take to wake this country up.
While I do feel bolstered by the outpouring of support that I have seen, it always seems temporary – once the tragedy is no longer on the news, we just seem to leave behind another devastated community and go on until the next tragedy. I still hold out some hope that there is an answer out there, but it is getting harder to find.
Kate,
Such tragic events bring the worst and the best in each person.
What I find again and again is that our belief in our core principles, our undying faith in the goodness of each individual needs to be reiterated and acknowledged again, no matter what.
Doubts will surface within oneself. Fear will try to cloud your beliefs and principles by which you are living.
Only the firm reconfirmation of what you would like your life and the lives of the loved ones to be should follow all those doubts and fears. By doing it again and again, you and the millions around you shall create the life we are all would like to live.
Thank you for your powerful affirmation in the best and greatest principles of the mankind – the belief in the best of each human being.
I just got done with a very heated debate about our rights of owning guns, and I have to admit that we as a society have become blind, disconnected, selfish, etc. Many want to take our rights away of owning guns but they don’t realize that the root of the problem is much much deeper then just the “guns”. 🙁 Seriously, I want to keep my right of owning a gun, for the safety of our family and my children. I feel horrible about the deaths of those children, I really do, breaks my heart! Psychopaths everywhere will learn of ways to kill, gun or no gun,…..very scary! Our society are creating these “psychopaths” by creating children that are disconnected with the difference between right and wrong, no fear of god, no fear of anything….we are molding them to think that killing is “ok” with console killing games, watching movies that are really not appropriate , etc. We are brain washing them. No matter what we do, the sad part is, there will always be people killing people. I have made a choice today, to not live in fear but rather, to live day to day, with love and compassion, but yet, still keep my eyes open and aware of my surroundings for the safety of my family and children.
Carole,
Very powerful decision within to live without fear, rather with abundance of compassion and love. I so feel you! Thank you.
Thank you for writing this. I am not even able to talk yet.
Mary Beth,
I have that knot inside my throat area. Tears are rolling down in a pouring stream every time a thought passes my mind of what’s happened and how the people who loved those who were deprived of their lives would continue with theirs. I am thinking of that and feeling their pain. And that is just a millionth of what they are feeling inside.
It is a Wordless Friday, and Saturday, and Sunday and many, many days ahead of us.
Elizabeth,
I am with you, my friend. The LOVE and outpouring soulfulness props us up and gives that straw to grab at to survive through this madness.
We are all reeling still from the horrible tragedy that hit our community, our neighbors, our coworkers, our friends yesterday. And, like you, it makes me very concerned about where we are all headed. But then i read the outpouring off support on facebook, the tremendous response from all the bloggers, the tweets sending prayers to our communities, and the desire of so many throughout the country to help. This includes the counselors from the area who are flooding local agencies with calls to volunteer their services, not just this weekend but the weeks to come. The sandwich shop owner who wants to donate food to first responders, services providers, families. The thousands of teddy bears left on the lawn of a local church…all reminding us that in the midst of all this horror and tragedy good still exists, and hopefully will prevail in the end.