The Human Condition

This is one of those posts that probably won't be happy.

It might be a little nagging.

Something has caught my attention, and when that happens I obsess over it like it might be a life or death situation.

I'm fairly certain that my inability to cope with certain things led to my hair falling out.

It's growing back now, but I need to not give it a reason to continue making me bald.

But, here we go.

I had a dear friend lose her brother-in-law a few days ago. It was covered by several news organizations because of the situation he and his family were in.

Of course the articles about Isaac and his family were posted on Facebook, and as I was reading through the kind wonderful things people were saying, the support, the love, I ran across a comment that made me sick.

Why is this news? I mean, it's sad what they're going through, but I've never heard of him.

Really?

It's "news" because his family needs help, and his situation wasn't common. Why does someone need to be widely known to be considered important enough to be "news"? 

And that got me thinking.

I started to thing about the human condition and where we are now. 

How selfish we are.

How little we care about others.

And it's a problem.

I've noticed that so many have stopped recognizing others as even being on the same level as themselves.

We focus so much on ourselves that we seem to forget the existence of others. I mean, we're aware that there are other people on this earth but how are they seen? As obstacles on our path to get what we want? As problems that we just have to deal with for a few hours, and then we'll be back on our way to whatever success we're trying to get?

I love this time of year. I love that everyone seems to focus more on what we have and what we should be thankful for. All the blessings we have and that we have more than we need. And then Christmas rolls around and we have the chance to give, to serve, to love people that sometimes, unfortunately, we'd ignore or look down on.

But then it stops. And we're right back to the selfish, demeaning society we are.

Everyone talks about the world getting worse and worse, but whose fault is that? 

It's ours.

We can't control everyone in this world. We can't stop everyone from doing bad things. But we can control ourselves. It's amazing the difference we can make. 

But it has to start here. With us. 

If everyone just

STOPPED

being selfish and being concerned about only themselves

then just imagine what this world could be.