Some Musings (a repost from my other blog)

A post from springtime on my Obama blog that I would like to repost here.

Who are we all or who are we becoming?

I see a hopeful future when I hear my daughter and son smiling and playing together. I hear the sheer abandonment and joy in their laughter and I smile. My heart overflows in those moments and I feel at peace with everyone and everything, at least briefly ;-).

When I first wrote this I was leaving the doctor's office with a potential diagnosis hanging over my head that troubled me. Still I noticed the
buds suddenly swelling on all the trees and getting ready to let the leaves burst out. It reminded me to be in the moment I was in, where I was, and to appreciate my life, my health, and all of the possibilities each moment holds.

It is hard to hold onto that inner peace, at least it is for me, despite trying. It is easy to let worry worm its way back into your heart. It's easy to become distracted.

Tonight after doing some research for myself I did what I find myself doing every night these days; trolling through blogs, news stories and the like. It's struck me before and will again I imagine but I cannot reconcile the hatred, the spewing, the venom, the anger, and the fear that I read in the comments. What are we becoming as a society? Has it always been this way but the immediacy and relative anononimity of the Internet just allows it broader voice? When did it become okay to bash one another so viciously?

What is the matter with us????????

Our time here is too brief and too precious to waste it hurting one another, lashing out in anger and violence. We could do so much good with our energy and our resources yet collectively we choose not to. And yet right now in this very moment thousands upon thousands of us are working together for all our personal reasons and agendas for a common goal, a shared vision of what our future could be. It's heartening.

Thank you all for all you do to bring about positive change!