CosmicSandBox’s Weblog

Hello!  Are you there?  I can’t hear you!  Please speak up. What are you doing? Have you drunk the Kool Aid? Honestly, I’m not kidding.

There are beautiful families breaking up all over this country because they have lost their “STUFF”!  This is absolutely horrible. During the past decade we have been hypnotized into believing our self worth was based on what we owned – real or personal property. We did everything to get it and maintain it. We worked at jobs we hated, we sacrificed time with our mates and children…all to get stuff and bigger and bigger houses and SUV’s. We’ve been manipulated like puppets to spend into oblivion.

Now the truth is out. The curtain exposing the charlatan wizard has been pulled back, and we are allowing ourselves to fall into despair. STOP! Yes stop! The system is corrupt. It has been for 5, 000 years. This is nothing new. I remember when we went through this kind of crap in the early 70’s. We had Vietnam (like Iraq), we had Watergate (like Wall Street) we had gas lines, toilet paper shortages even. Everything was unraveling. We’d just been through the 60’s with 3 major assinations of inspired leaders!  It was hell then too. But this chaos has been going on forever. There is nothing new under the sun, as they say.

So now we have young people too young to remember all this history; and, they no longer learn it in school. Since they have no sesnse of history, they think this is a new thing. They want to bail on all their commitments and just trash their families, because they can’t have the illusive “American Dream”. What the hell is that anyway???!!! Now is the time to pull together as never before.

We have been sold a bill of goods. The “powers that be” have never intentioned that the lower classes would be able to aspire to the heights. Their plan is “Give them a little here and there to keep them quiet.” Everyone loves bright and shiny toys, so we all got hooked real quickly into charging up the cards to get all the new gadgets and big screen TVs, etc. . In the process, you are kept so busy working to pay for all this stuff you forget who you are and you forget who your partner is, and you haven’t a clue who your kids are.

At this point we need Cicero (orator of Rome who warned of its fall) to stand up and tell it like it is. If all the “stuff” went away tomorrow what would we be? Do we still have each other? Do we still love our children with all our hearts? Do we still have our health? If you can answer “Yes” to those questions then you have it all. You can overcome this mess. It is all happening to teach us that we are so much more than our stuff.

If you look back on your life what are the most precious memories you have as a child? What about as a teenager? Keep going. Through your life, your memories are almost exclusively about love shared…those warm fuzzie feelings that linger forever in your heart.

Do not let this economy, this political crisis or corruption, the endless wars, destroy your indemonitable spirit. I am adamant about this! I have been through all of it, and I’m still here… and my relatives still speak to me! So if I can do it you can do it too. Love is all there is. Money and stuff mean nothing in comparison. Look in your loved ones faces and SEE them and tell them how much they mean to you and that you will do everything to maintain that unity.

Bless you.