Just A Thought

 The subject of the California fires was being discussed at my DAR meeting today.  People always invariably comment that material possessions are only possessions and that lives are what matter the most.  I completely agree with this, but at the same time, I’m sure it would be a really shitty experience to lose your home and everything you have.  Just now I have found myself once again thinking of material possessions.  I guess I was wondering how I would feel if I had that experience.  One thought that came to my mind is that I would be thinking “Crap, why did I spend so much of my life‘s time focused on needing, wanting and acquiring things only to have all of these goals, work and efforts prove to be pointless?” I feel like I should have all the most important things that I would want to save, in case of a natural disaster, together in one spot.  I guess this is how we all need to start thinking now that climate change is having its effect and disas...

 What are higher selves?  I believe that higher selves are higher aspects of ourselves that exist in some mystery location outside of our own bodies and brains and they seek to always grant us self love and belief in our own value.  I think they are also the granter of new thoughts to ponder.   Oh dear, I guess I’m in a philosophical contemplation mode.  At least I make an attempt at this anyway.  How much success I achieve is another story.   Update:  One additional thought that I am having today is that my higher self believes me to be a serious butthead.  Oh wow,  what am I to do with such a piece of information?? 🫨 The next message from my higher self is that if anyone ever calls me gullible they will be shot.   This is what is called humor because obviously my higher self would not promote gunshot violence. 

 Wow.  Weren’t there already enough of a plethora of videos to be lured into watching on Instagram and now we have an additional plethora of AI generated videos. 🫨

 When I think about people from the past, I find it rather amazing to think that they could not have imagined lives and lifestyles that differed vastly from their own.  Their world and existence at the time was the only reality there was.  There is a show on my television right now that I wasn’t watching but it is about the pioneer wagon train settlers.  They could never in their wildest dreams have believed that the long, difficult, and risky journey that they took to cross the country could be accomplished in just a few hours by traveling in a contraption that flies through the sky.  This doesn’t of course mean that life is a piece of cake for people of the 20th and 21st centuries.  Every time period has its own unique challenges.  I heard recently that teenagers are using some apps that turn photos of people into naked photos and they are using these to create and share fake naked photos of their classmates. 😳😠