It has been tough to be happy and positive these past few months...My goodness, people are going MAD!!
BUT, I STILL Believe there is FAR MORE GOOD than Bad in this old world. We just don't hear as much of that and in truth, MOST people don't want to KNOW what good is going on. They seek out the good, juicy stories.
(See me waving at you from my blog???!!!!)
Tonight, I was watching 60 Minutes as was reminded of a quote, so I thought I would share it.
It puts our PLANET into great perspective. I think it is beautifully written and thought-provoking. Man has been trying to DESTROY, in one way or another, since the beginning of time...It is just ANOTHER reminder that we MUST be KIND...
The world is filled with takers, but again,
I BELIEVE there are MORE givers...
I just want to thank those who GIVE their lives to making our world better. Thank YOU for all the kind acts that you do...we MUST PAY IT FORWARD.
I hope you will enjoy reading this (or re-reading)...
May your heart be filled with blessings...~charlotte
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| This is a picture of Earth taking from under the rings of Saturn...we are the Pale Blue Dot in the bottom right... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every
human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and
suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic
doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and
destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love,
every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of
morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every
"supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our
species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very
small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by
the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable
inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how
eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the
rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory
and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion
that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this
point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping
cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help
will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could
migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth
is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building
experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human
conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our
responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and
cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in
Space
Again, my friend, VERY well said!
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Good morning, my friend. Thanks for putting things in perspective. I often wonder if it is getting worse in the world, or does it just appear worse because we hear about more of it through social media. You are right though in that there are more good people than bad. We just have to remember that and seek them out, as they don't grab the headlines as often.
ReplyDeleteTake care and thank you for your positive message. It is always good to read what is on your mind! Love ya!