I am so grateful for the great replies and wise words I have read in my fellow redheads! Thanks Juless for the GREAT replies! They are excellent, ongoing and exactly the kind of non-superficial way of interconnecting I was looking for when I finally got off my duff and started blogging and social networking! (why didn't I start blogging sooner?) I get some wonderful perspective from other people's outlooks and see things in different and new ways! I used to chat, in a particular chatroom on AOL called The New Age.. which was not really New Age at all, but gloriously ecclectic! Born agains, wiccans, pagans, hindu's, scientologists, urantia book devotees.... and one zoroastrian... it was such a mix, and I value all of them who opened my eyes to new and different approaches to life! It started out being really insightful! (turned ugly when it gave way to falling into clicks.. (peh) I Met some great real life friends from that experience, and my thinking is that chat has given way to blogging as one has to be live to chat, and blogging is random and more in synch with people's lives and something we can do when sitting quietly rather than instantanously. Very cool how things give way to new things and how they evolve into new and improved!
People long for the "old days", to me, they were a capstone to now, which is all we really have anyway. If they were so good, why make new stuff? I think it is because we strive to evolve... to what, I am not sure, but hopefully it is to a more peaceful existance. I do notice something that I am not immune to myself. (working on that), Every day, we have things on TV or in newspapers, or the internet... we are bombarded, with things that would help us live more in harmony with life and our natural states of being... happiness, and yet, so many are unhappy. It is always being discussed, the value of relaxation, or being in touch with your inner... child, demon, guide, godforce, natural state.. (whatever you call it), relax, meditate, use herbals, use the wind and the sun, recycle.. BE natural... and yet, our lives are not really in line with it at all. I mean.. we all work, we like our stuff, I like MY stuff.. (try to avoid post consumer waste though), and I can't help think that we "know" we are on to something, we are just working toward it. Like, beta, we chose different in VHS.. and beta went out the window, VHS just worked for us... or chats, we gave way to blogging, cause it affords us to do it the way we want when we want and doesn't require being "live" to interact.. or bigger yet, the agricultural revolution giving way to the industrial, then to the computer age, now, to the "Green".... new ways of life, closer, in the big sense to "peace"... ah... I am a hopeless optimist! :) That's my story and I am sticking with it!
