No one wants to feel unstable, or experience hopelessness, or lose their sense of spirit. And with everything going on in Japan my nonsense makes even less sense.
There are too many bodies for the crematory to handle. There are people searching for water, food, and their loved ones. What is happening over there is devastating and catastrophic. It really puts everything in perspective. Relative or not, sometimes you have to step outside yourself. You have to put yourself in someone else's shoes. It's not always about us. The world doesn't revolve around us. And the best way to stop being about us is to be about someone or something else.
Whenever something bad happens, no one ever wants to think, "Oh that can happen to me, us, anyone, anywhere, any time." Well guess what!? Yes it can!
What would we do if this happened right here in our own backyard? What would we do if we lost everything? If there was no food, no shelter, no heat in below freezing weather?
What would we grab? Where would we go? Who would we try to call? Since we are all connected, we are all affected. It effects us on a global level. We are fragile and we are taking advantage of the very earth we inhabit and the earth has obviously had enough. Will it reach us here? It already has.
The markets are falling, the global momentum supporting nuclear energy is threatened and worse, our neighbor just lost their mother, father, brother, sister. How painful it all is. How humbling.
In a world based in control, there is absolutely nothing we can do about the onslaught of natural disasters. But what we can do is find a way to play a part in the relief efforts. It's in this collaboration of energy that we will help uplift the energy of our planet and hopefully ourselves.
I'm going through life trying to make sense of all the nonsense. But sometimes I find myself thinking f**k it, can one person really make a difference?
The answer is simple. Yes we can. We can make a huge difference. And there are so many ways to help. So I am going to just help for now. It's all I can do. Here are just a few ways we can be one person making a difference.
www.redcross.org/ text 50555 to donate $10.00
www.unicefusa.org
ladygagabracelet (click link to be brought to hottopic.com)
Side note: I am pushing the release date of the trailer. Tomorrow I will try to post my check in number 6 but I can't promise. I can't promise much this week. I'm in a mood. It happens.
Making sense of nonsense... experiences, misdemeanors & a little self-encouragement
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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Words on Screen & Words on Paper
- Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
- Casablanca (1942)
- Chocolat (2000)
- Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, Susan Jeffer, Ph.D.
- Harold and Maude (1971)
- Invictus (2009)
- On The Waterfront (1954)
- Singin in the Rain (1952)
- The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield
- The Four Agreements, Miguel Ruiz
- The Greatest Salesman in the World, Og Mandino
- The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- West Side Story (1961)
- What Happy People Know, Dan Baker
Favorites
Listening
- Use Somebody, Kings of Leon
- You're Beautiful, James Blunt
- Love, Love, Love, Tristan Prettyman
- Just Fine, Mary J. Blige
- Banana Pancakes, Jack Johnson
- You and Me, Dave Matthews
- Just Breathe, Pearl Jam
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